The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast - JBP Reacts to Court Decision

Episode Date: August 24, 2023

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Music Dad, nice to see you. Hey, Mick, how are you doing? I'm not doing too bad, how are you? Good, actually, all things considered, I'm in Milwaukee looking forward to the presidential debate tonight, that's fun. You know, I'm perplexed, I would say,
Starting point is 00:00:34 about the situation in Canada. I've been thinking about it this morning, as you know, the court that we appealed the college of psychologists decision to decided that the college has, it's within the college's purview to stop me from having any political opinions as far as I can tell. The decision, which I posted on Twitter and will post in the description of this video, starts out by making a case for the fundamental reality of freedom of speech for Canadians
Starting point is 00:01:12 in Canada, and then says, but, and that's always a bad start when you're talking about freedom of speech, but apparently the college has the right to decide that I can be reeducated forcibly with the risk of my license, essentially because I made political statements that the members of the college don't agree with. And those opinions involve two criticisms of Justin Trudeau, one criticism of his chief of staff, one criticism of an Ottawa City Councilor, an objection to the trans-butchery that's occurring around the world that's absolutely 100% unforgivable in my estimation, and also by UN definition a crime against humanity, which is exactly what the forced sterilization
Starting point is 00:02:06 of miners boils down to. And then my objection on Joel Rogan to the climate apocalyptic fear-mongering that idiot tyrants are foisting on the general population. Now, apparently that makes me unprofessional and a disgrace to the profession, such that I am now going to be required, the college can go ahead with this, to put me into a re-education program with their so-called social media experts, and that's also, by the way, a profession
Starting point is 00:02:39 that does not exist until I learn my lesson, whatever that is, regardless of how much time that takes, by their judgment, or they can take my license away. And so the court says, well, of course, you have freedom of speech, Dr. Peterson, but because you're a professional, you're bound by your professional organization. And apparently they're not bound, even though there are government organizations, fundamentally, apparently they're not bound by that fundamental constitution laxia. And so that shows you all you Canadians who are listening. And everyone outside of the country who might be the least bit interested in Canada, that shows you exactly what our bloody constitution is worth. And if Canadians are so daft that they don't think that that's a problem, well,
Starting point is 00:03:25 they're going to figure it out over the next 15 years because there's absolutely no excuse for this. So that's what I'm thinking. Now, there's part of me that's thinking, a look, Peterson, the college of psychologists is after you. You've taken it to court. Now the judges have decided that you're wrong. Maybe you're wrong. And I think, well, I expressed political sentiment and I'm actually informed. And so for the life of me, I can't see how I'm wrong. I think I have a responsibility to say what I think, and I think many people agree with that. And I think the fundamental consequence of that around the world has been massively beneficial to people. So I think, I think, number one, what the hell, and number two, bring it on and see what
Starting point is 00:04:18 happens, because I will make absolutely every bit of this public in a way that the college and the courts can hardly even imagine. So, away we go. So, that's how I'm doing. That's how you're doing, okay, but good. Yeah, but good, you know, I mean, I didn't look. The court decision was worse than I thought it would be. I was already pessimistic. I figured the court would take the coward's way out and basically upgrade the college for procedural inadequacy because one of the things the college did, which is just beyond comprehension as far as I'm concerned, is pursue these complaints that were put forward by people distributed all over the world, who then claimed in writing falsely to be my clients, when in fact they were never my clients and not only were they not my clients, they had nothing to do with anyone who was ever a client of mine.
Starting point is 00:05:19 And so I figured at least the court would say, well, of course you have the right to police professionals because you're a professional governing body, but they didn't even do that. They just basically said, well, of course you have the right to freedom of speech, except when it comes to, let's say, political opinions. So then what right do you have at all? And it's terrible, Michaela, because I know perfectly well from talking to many physicians, physicians in particular, but also lawyers and psychologists that no one in Canada, arguably, and this is also extremely strange, it's surreal, there's no one in Canada
Starting point is 00:05:58 except me that's actually in a position to fight this, because it's hyper-expensive, and I don't know if my insurance will cover it. It's hyper-expensive. It's stressful. It's complex. It's time-consuming. It could involve the suspension of my license. And there's not really anything that can be done to me that's a threat. I'm not serving as a clinician. I don't have a practice anymore because that became impossible, even though I love doing it. I'm also not very happy about that. So I'm like the person who can do this.
Starting point is 00:06:37 And Canadians have no idea to what degree professionals in Canada are now required not to say what they think or to lie outright. So for example, therapists are required by law to lie about, let's say, the gender identity of minors. And so for me, especially on the therapy side, if you're required by law and by your professional organization to lie cowardly, you're done as a therapist because the only thing you've got as a therapist is honesty. That's it.
Starting point is 00:07:16 Honesty is what's curative. So, you know, it's just part of how surreal the world is and particularly how surreal Canada is. It's hard to found them. And it is hard to fathom. Can I read just a couple of sentences from the decision so people have an idea of what's in here? It's linked below.
Starting point is 00:07:38 People can read the entire thing. But there's parts, like this is how it begins. When individuals join a regulated profession, they do not lose their charter right to freedom of expression. At the same time, however, they take on obligations and must abide by the rules of their regulatory body
Starting point is 00:07:55 that may limit their freedom of expression. That's just one sentence after another. That's how it starts. Yeah, perfect. It's a great thing to highlight. It's like, well, you have this fundamental right, but what rules, there's a rule, there's a rule, is that right? That the college of psychologists has, that I can't criticize Justin Trudeau on Twitter.
Starting point is 00:08:19 That's a rule, is it? And if someone anywhere in the world complains about the fact that I've criticized Justin Trudeau, let's say, that all of a sudden, that's a rule, even though it wasn't a rule. And, of course, I get to criticize Justin Trudeau, not only because he richly deserves it in every way you can possibly imagine, but because that's actually what freedom of speech means. So I have no idea what the court means by, you know, abiding by the rules. So, the rules are whatever the bloody college of psychologists determines, constitutes a rule after the fact given their complete freedom to make manifest any rules they want.
Starting point is 00:09:02 It's beyond comprehension. And yes, but I have freedom of speech. It's like, do I know what do I get to talk about? Apparently I can't even talk about the weather. You know, here's another fact. This is literally the truth. People can submit a complaint to the College of Psychologists from anywhere in the world.
Starting point is 00:09:23 And so someone in the state submit a complaint to the College of Psychologists from anywhere in the world. So someone in the state submitted a complaint about the last conversation I had with Joe Rogan, where I expressed my doubts about the validity of economic predictions based on climate science. The complainant submitted the entire transcript, right? The three-hour conversation as evidence of my unprofessional behavior. And the college, which did not have to pursue that complaint, went forward with it. So like, okay, I talked to Joe for three hours. Apparently, everything I said in that three hours was unprofessional and
Starting point is 00:10:08 a disgrace to the to the profession. So like, well, what am I supposed to do about that? The answer is, well, we're going to appeal the decision. I will take this to the Supreme Court. I don't think that any judges will have either the wisdom or the courage to rule about this properly except at the Supreme Court level. And I'm not particularly optimistic about that either. I'm not optimistic about that either. I don't see how you can win this without overturning colleges in general. And I don't, like, that's not a good look for the colleges to lose this. and win this without overturning colleges in general.
Starting point is 00:10:46 And I don't, like, that's not a good look for the colleges to lose this. So won't the Supreme Court, I know they're not supposed to be pressured, but won't they, what's the benefit for them for ruling in your favor? Other than with freedom of speech. Well, the benefit would be that they support, well, they would support the most fundamental principle
Starting point is 00:11:03 of a free society, right? It's like, why do you have the right to freedom of speech? Well, the answer is, is because there's no difference between free speech and thinking, no difference between free speech and dialogue, and no difference between free speech and problem solving and negotiation. And so, and therefore peace, if you eliminate that, people can no longer think they can
Starting point is 00:11:29 no longer adapt, they can no longer negotiate, they no longer even know how to orient themselves in the world. And so in principle, the advantage for their Supreme Court is that they rule in favor of the most fundamental principle upon which civil democracy itself is predicated now i don't think we have the right to free speech in canada i think this this uh... this decision today demonstrates that obviously i saw the same thing with the law society in canada
Starting point is 00:12:00 partly was why i'm not surprised at this ruling i've been through this before and i see that canada's walked down that idiot path for at least 30 years. So our country is in, well, this is where I start to get doubtful. It's like, either I'm wrong or the country is in trouble. Now, to tell you the truth,
Starting point is 00:12:21 I would rather be wrong, but I've thought it through. It's like, okay, what did I do exactly? None of my clients complained. That has nothing to do with this. And I express my political opinions, which I have a right to do, which I believe were correct. I think that, and Canadians agree with this now. The last poll indicated that Canadians believe that Justin Trudeau is the worst prime minister we've ever had. Well, that was I think that and Canadians agree with this now. The last poll indicated that Canadians believe that Justin Trudeau is the worst prime minister we've ever had.
Starting point is 00:12:49 Well, that was sort of my point a year ago, you know? And so if I can't say that, and yet a majority of Canadians believe it to be true, and believe me, a lot more of them are gonna believe that. A lot more are gonna believe that in the relatively near future. In what sense do I have anything even approximating freedom of speech? And if I can't have that opinion and therefore in principle no one can, then what do we do when we're stuck with a prime minister, let's say, who everyone has decided is the worst prime minister the country's ever had. Well, move, run if you
Starting point is 00:13:27 can. Well, this is another reason, you know, why I'm in a position that I can fight this way, because the worst thing that could happen is the college can take away my license. Now I already know that if my license gets taken away, there are other jurisdictions that will grant me a license the next day. And, you know, there's a real comedic, there's a real comedic element to that because I could lose my license in Ontario and instantly be licensed in at least three other jurisdictions. And so that's not going to look very good with regard to the Ontario College of Psychologists. So they got rid of you. Well, and fair enough, and if that's what they want, I mean, the other problem that the
Starting point is 00:14:10 college is going to face is that, and I don't know exactly what they're going to make of this, but all the people who are involved in this prosecution are going to find very soon that this will eat their life. So you know, for media perspective. I've offered, yeah. Well, I've offered to the college to negotiate. I actually have a solution in mind. And I've heard the odd comment indicating
Starting point is 00:14:36 that maybe that's a possibility. I reached out a month ago with an idea, they haven't got back to me. I think they're waiting for this decision to tell you the truth. And of course, they're going to be entirely abulled by this. I know this solution, which I'm not going to discuss in this podcast. I have to talk to them first. I have a reasonable solution. But, and I also know or think I know, you might ask, well, why is the college doing this?
Starting point is 00:15:03 And my suspicions are because we've been through this before. You know, when Cambridge University canceled my, the seminar I was going to conduct there on Exodus, I found it eventually that it was basically one person who was behind all of that. There were two more that were associated with that person. And I know perfectly well that there's a few progressive psychopaths that are associated with the college who are pushing the college to go after me for whatever the hell their reasons are.
Starting point is 00:15:37 You know, maybe they disagree with my political opinions, particularly on the transplant. And that was the that was the tweet I think that really probably initiated all this, right? I tweeted about on the transplant. And that was the, that was the tweet, I think, that really probably initiated all this, right? I tweeted about Elliott Page and said that a criminal physician cut off her breasts and that pride was once a sin. And I actually think that tweets doing pretty damn well now because it's become pretty obvious that there's no shortage of trans surgery butchery being conducted on minors and I feel that there's, I believe that is a crime against humanity. And so I'm perfectly happy that I tweeted that particular tweet and I also think
Starting point is 00:16:19 in five years nobody will admit that they were ever in favor of any of this, right? This is far worse than the lobotomies of the 1930s. This is inexcusable. You know, I read one poor kid today on Twitter, D-transitioner, was decrying his castration, fancy that, and pointing out, for example, that, you know, he's a young guy. He has no sexual drive whatsoever. And he said, well, you know, what am I going to do? What have I lost?
Starting point is 00:16:47 I can't believe I was so stupid as to have gone through with this. It's like, you know, fair enough, kid. You probably should have woken up, but the people who facilitated that transformation, your therapists and your surgeons, as far as I'm concerned, they should be jailed for the rest of their lives. So.
Starting point is 00:17:04 Yeah. What happens? I think it's- I think it's- You know harm. Yeah, right. I should also point out, just so everyone is aware of this. Surgeons are much more likely to be psychopathic than people in the typical profession. That's a well-documented phenomenon
Starting point is 00:17:22 in the psychological literature. Now, it's not only surgeons, obviously. You see it in other professions as well. But if you happen to be sadistic and psychopathic, a profession that allows you to cut people up, that's that, that, that, and you think, well, there are no people like that. It's like, well, I think they just arrested some nurse in the UK for killing a bunch of babies in her psychopathic and sadistic manner.
Starting point is 00:17:47 And so if you don't think there are people like that, you're naive beyond belief and you better bloody well pray that you never meet anyone like that because they're looking for someone just as naive as you to have their way with. There are countries now that have outlawed surgery for minors, transgender surgeries for minors. Like I believe in that. Yeah, they didn't exactly outlaw. I got corrected on that claim by community notes on Twitter. What happened was they've restricted surgery to minors to clinical trials, which is, you
Starting point is 00:18:23 know, it's a detail. They backtrack. There's no Denmark, France, Sweden, the UK, Holland, the Netherlands, which is particularly relevant because that's where this gender affirming surgical idiocy first made itself manifest. The Europeans have woken up to the fact that, well, you know what? Turns out that there's no evidence that sterilizing young people and cutting off their breasts makes them happier. Isn't that a shock?
Starting point is 00:18:53 Yep. I think this is going to blad. This is an argument that has to be had right now and it's going to, there's going to be such pushback from people who have gone through these surgeries, starting now, it's already happening. Yeah. Yeah. You had some more things to read from the decision.
Starting point is 00:19:11 Yeah. Well, there are a couple of other, I don't know if they're funny, but there are a couple of other parts just to clarify what's going on. Is this decision that they've come to order Dr. Peterson as a registered member of the college to complete a specified continuing education or remedial program, a skirp regarding professionalism in public statements. The order is not disciplinary, it clarifies that here, and does not prevent, that's good, right? It's not a question. You just have to pay for things you don't want to do. Right. I have to pay for things I don't want to do.
Starting point is 00:19:48 It's also not specified. So that what's specified is that I have to be retrained. What's specified in this specification is that I have to be retrained regardless of how long that takes until the people who are responsible for the retraining have decided that I've learned my lesson. Right? So don't tell me that's specified and don't bloody well lie, you pikers and tell me that that's not disciplinary. How pathetic can you get? It's like if you're going to come after me, why don't you bloody well admit that you're disciplining me, which is absolutely 100% obvious, especially because
Starting point is 00:20:25 you're also claiming that I deserve to be disciplined. You know, it's like claiming you're in charge in favor of freedom of speech and then telling me that, well, except that, you know, you're a professional. And of course, we wouldn't want professionals to be able to, you know, tell the truth or say what they think because everyone wants their professionals to lie to them because that's how you get the best advice and guidance. Obviously. Yeah. Howard's.
Starting point is 00:20:51 Yeah. I think what shocks me about this is you are basically being brought to task over the Joe Rogan podcast, one of the Joe Rogan podcasts, which is insane. And over political tweets, like it says right here, a tweet on February 19th in which Dr. Peterson commented that an auto-acity counselor was an appalling self-righteous moralizing thing. And appalling self-righteous moralizing thing. Yeah, well, I used thing because I didn't want to get in trouble on the pronoun
Starting point is 00:21:25 front. Oh, well, I don't think that panned out well. Well, we'll see. And so far, it's caused a certain amount of trouble. Okay, so there was the order, what a city of counselor. Yeah, what other, what a do? Tweet on January 2nd in which Dr. Peterson responded to an individual who expressed concern over over population. That's how it's worded. And your response was you're free to leave at any point. The person actually said, just so we get this right, that there were too many people on the planet. Now, I'm not very happy with that statement at all, because I listen to people, I listen
Starting point is 00:22:03 to what people say. And when people say, well, there should only be 500 million people on the planet, because that's what the planet can sustain. I think, what do you plan to do with the other 7,500 million? They're inconvenient, are they? And you, what do you think they should be dispensed with? Just exactly what the hell are you saying? And if you think that there are too many people,
Starting point is 00:22:25 well, what makes you so sure that you're not one of them, especially if you're the one that's concerned about it. You know, if the lifeboat is too crowded to float, maybe the morally appropriate thing to do is jump off, right? To save everybody else. Not to pretend that, well, who is it? Is it the Africans who don't get to have fossil fuels, for example? Is it people all over the world, the poor people who are multiplying
Starting point is 00:22:58 so rapidly they're devouring the planet's resources? Should they all go? You have bloody moralizers. There's a genocide of impulse in that. And so I have absolutely no qualms whatsoever about calling someone out on it, especially when I'm doing it, obviously, ironically. Now, they actually said, the bloody college said the complaint was I was counseling to suicide. Okay, really, who is stupid enough to think that? Well, obviously, the Canadian College of Psychologists and the Canadian courts.
Starting point is 00:23:32 So there's another one, there's another one that kind of goes along with that where you're clearly joking and that this is what they say. So this is from the Joe Rogan podcast. Speaking about air pollution and child deaths, Dr. Peterson said, it's just poor children and the world has too many people on it anyways, which is clearly sarcasm. That's in there though. Yeah, yeah, well, that's that's and those are the, so just so everybody's watching listening. No, so, you know, someone can take out a complaint by going and filling out a forum out the Ontario College of Psychologist website. So if anybody out there is inclined to complain some or just go ahead and do it. But the college doesn't have to pursue those complaints because they can define them as vexatious and just trouble making right. So it isn't even only that members of the public, the millions of people that I'm communicating with,
Starting point is 00:24:28 let's say, are prone to complain, but that the college itself decided that that was sufficient grounds to threaten my license and to force me into reeducation. Of course, they're not doing it for disciplinary reasons. It's like, what the, what the, I don't even understand what that means.
Starting point is 00:24:44 If you're not doing it for disciplinary reasons, So, like, what the, what the, I don't even understand what that means. If you're not doing it for disciplinary reasons, it's like, why is it forced and why am I being upgraded? That's like the definition of disciplinary. So that just shows you how mandatious the decision is. Yeah, yeah. And then it does go to outline that it's directed Dr. Peterson and to our coaching program with either one or two individuals identified by the panel to review, reflect on and ameliorate his professionalism in public statements. The coaching program
Starting point is 00:25:21 was to begin within three months and to be completed within 12 costs associated with the coaching are born by you. It also outlines that coaching doesn't end until you've successfully ameliorated your professionalism and learns. Yeah, and so and what the hell is that supposed to mean precisely? I need a whole personality transplant parents. But there's another problem too there. And here's the problem. I'm not wrong. So that's a big problem. And I swear I will do this. If I am required to undergo the retraining, I will undergo the retraining. And I will tape it. And I will broadcast it. And then everyone else can decide, then everyone else can decide for themselves just exactly what the hell's going on. And whether or not I've contemplated my words,
Starting point is 00:26:14 whether or not I've thought through everything I say carefully, whether or not I have any grounds for my opinions, I don't say things that I haven't thought about and thought about a lot. And so I agree with Canadians that Justin Trudeau is the worst prime minister that the country has ever had. And I think he's actually far worse than people think. And I think the corruption of the judiciary reflects that.
Starting point is 00:26:38 And I think that the college is being overwhelmed by woke cowards. And I think that professionals in Canada no longer have the right to express their thoughts, which makes, which invalidates them as useful professionals. And I think they're pushed into a corner so badly that even the brave professionals I know, and I do know some, are unwilling to fight this, to even make public statements in support of me, because the bloody colleges are so corrupt and have them over a barrel so badly that even the brave people are afraid to say anything. And if you think that is the hallmark of a free country, there is really something wrong with you. You bloody well better wake up. And if you think that if that's happening to professionals, that it's not going to happen to you, well, you are exactly naive enough to deserve exactly what's coming down the pipeline for you. I guess one of the problems I see is, right, so you're in a good position to fight this,
Starting point is 00:27:35 even though it's costing, it is seriously costing an arm and a leg, and it's time consuming and it's stressful, but at least you're not reliant on your clinical practice for livelihood, right? Yeah. As opposed to other people, what's the average Canadian supposed to do when they're living in a society like this? Like how do you fight?
Starting point is 00:27:58 Because in my opinion, I honestly don't know if you're, you can win this. I think Canada is crooked and woke very, very deep down. So I don't necessarily see this going in a good direction for your clinical license, at least in Ontario. What are average people supposed to do to try and stop their society from going in this kind of direction? Because it feels like I moved, I just ran away.
Starting point is 00:28:22 I was like, goodbye to this country. I'm going to America. It has its problems for sure, but at least there's freedom of speech built in there. What's the average Canadian dude to fight back against this? Get involved in the political process at whatever level they can. Get involved in the school boards, get involved in the political parties, get involved in local elections, volunteer for election, start differentiating between the false government state-funded legacy news and actual news if you can do that, even though that's become impossible
Starting point is 00:28:52 in Canada too, because now Canadians can't get news. It's like, look, here's the rule, Mick, this is the rule. All responsibility on the political front abdicated by the average citizen will be taken up by tyrants and used against you. And so you either take responsibility for this, which means to get involved in the political process, or you suffer the consequences. Now, you know, a young person might be thinking, well, what could I do? And I would say, you know, that's actually not a good attitude. And I mean that practically because what you will find if you're young, if you go volunteer for a political campaign, let's say, first of all, you're going to learn a lot. You're going to sharpen your political beliefs. You're going to learn how to put an argument forward. And then if you're competent and hardworking, you're going to find that avenues of opportunity open for you on the political
Starting point is 00:29:45 front so quickly that you can hardly imagine it. And that's partly because most political organizations are chronically short of help and absolutely chronically short of competent help. And so if you stepped into the political arena, you'd learn to speak more fluently, you'd put your arguments together, you'd learn to be more responsible, you'd take the responsibility onto yourself and strengthen yourself as a consequence, you'd keep the country on the straight and narrow and you'd keep it free, and all sorts of opportunities would emerge for you. And so that's what you do. Now people don't do that, and it's partly also because they're caught.
Starting point is 00:30:25 Oh, you know, the whole system is so corrupted. Nothing can be done about it. It's like, well, if that's the case, you're in real trouble. And if it's not the case, take advantage of the opportunity. Get out there. Do something about it. You know, you're a citizen. It means you have some responsibility of you're a citizen without responsibility or headed for slavery. Simple as that. That's how the world works. If you don't stand up for yourself, obviously the people who will exploit you will exploit you, obviously.
Starting point is 00:30:58 So I don't think it is hopeless at all. I think that Canadians, I think that the fundamental bedrock of our institutions is still solidly enough in place, although it is threatened, that we don't have to walk down this increasingly authoritarian route. And you know, there's some positive signs. One of them being, for example, that the bloom is off the Trudeau Rose. You know, there's a man who couldn't even tell the truth about his marriage. What's the alternative?
Starting point is 00:31:30 You know, you said, for example, you left while there were business reasons for that, too, because it does turn out that the United States is a place much more, it's much more straightforward to do business in the United States. And most people who are watching listening will not know that Canadians are now, Canadians now make 60% as much as Americans make, 60% and the gap is growing. And that's a huge difference that we were at parity in the 1970s. It's a catastrophic difference. And Trudeau and his bloody minions, Stephen Guilbo, Prime among them, are doing, he said today, Guilbo said today that the
Starting point is 00:32:05 days of free and plentiful energy are over. Well, there's no difference between energy and wealth, and there's particularly no difference between energy and wealth for poor people. You want to make poor people poor, make energy expensive. Energy is work. You make work expensive. You demolish the poor, obviously. Well, I object to that. You make work expensive, you demolish the poor, obviously.
Starting point is 00:32:25 Well, I object to that, that's why I object to the climate fear-mongering apocalyptic lies because it destroys the poor, just so that the people who are screeching about the sky falling can feel momentarily moral about their role as planetary savior. It's like, no, to hell with you, seriously. You leave the poor alone, you have pricks.
Starting point is 00:32:49 There's also definitely not one person who's screeching about the sky falling in terms of climate that's having problems, affording energy. Not one of those people can't afford heat. Yeah, well, that's exactly right. That's exactly right. It's, it's exactly right. That's exactly right. The people who are struggling to put food on their table and to keep their air conditioners
Starting point is 00:33:13 on, to keep their heaters on in the winter, they're not playing moralistic games on the planetary savior side of things. No, they're just trying to scrabble forward with a certain degree of hope. It's appalling to see the left support this, for example, because in principle, the They're just trying to scrabble forward with a certain degree of hope. It's appalling to see the left support this, for example, because in principle, the left is the voice of the underclass, let's say. And it's obvious that the progressives will sacrifice the poor to nature, right? To nature worship, to Gaia, this imaginary catastrophe that justifies degrowth, for example. What the hell do you think degrowth means? If you don't think that means
Starting point is 00:33:53 starving poor people, you're an idiot. And you might say, well, there's too many people on the planet anyways. In which case, I would say, then leave. Well, is there anything else you think we should get into details about this? Or does that give people a good idea about what's going on? We can continue updating people, but this is the big story now. Hopefully we can get this covered by insurance because... Oof. Well, insurance for a practitioner is mandatory, and insurance for a practitioner is mandatory for these reasons.
Starting point is 00:34:29 And so it would be quite the situation. If it turned out that the insurance, which I was paying, because that was mandatory, also fails to cover this sequence of events. So we'll see about that. But I'll take this, I will take this as far as necessary. So, and like I tell you, Mac, Mick, I am very much inclined, as you know, to if I'm accused of doing something to rake myself
Starting point is 00:35:06 over the calls and to try to find out if I did something wrong. And I went through those allegations at Christmas in detail. It was very stressful because I thought, you know, well, maybe there's something here and that I went beyond the bounds of reasonable conduct. And I was very apprehensive. There were 13 charges at that point. They've dropped seven. God only knows why they dropped those seven. It's just arbitrary. But I went through all 13 in detail hundreds of pages of allegations. And when I came out of that, I thought,
Starting point is 00:35:40 well, first of all, I thought, how daft can you be to pursue allegations put forward by people who lied about the fact they were clients of mine? You know, those should have been just taken off the table instantly, obviously. You can't start by trusting the word of someone who lies in writing about something fundamental. So that was kind of a relief in some sense, right? Because I thought, well, that sheds a pretty dim light on the procedures of the college. And then I went through each allegation in turn. And I think the most damning, as I said, was the tweet in relationship to Elliot Page. That was certainly the one that caused the most public trouble. It's like, I got to tell you, kiddo, that's looking pretty good now.
Starting point is 00:36:20 So despite my proclivity to feel guilt, which is quite substantive, and despite my temperamental unwillingness to engage in conflict, I don't see not only do I not see what I did wrong, I think what I've done on the public communication front is my responsibility as a clinician To tell the truth about what I see Including what's happening on the trans butchery front and so So we'll make it public in every possible way and I'll bring to bear every single bit of public pressure. I can possibly muster on this particular topic.
Starting point is 00:37:10 And we will watch over the next three years, because that's how long it'll take, exactly how this plays out. So, and I've, you know, we've cordoned off our life. I can deal with this without it having interfered with everything else I'm doing. I've talked to Tammy, I've talked to you in Julian. My family's on my side.
Starting point is 00:37:30 We're solidly committed to this. I have a good legal team. We have the money necessary to do this and we have the connections. So if the college wants to re-educate me, they're more than welcome to try. But if they think they're going to do it in secret, they've got another thing coming.
Starting point is 00:37:56 Well, with that, it was nice talking to you. Have fun at the presidential debate tonight. I like your suit. Oh, thank you, isn't it ridiculous? Yeah, it's good. You stand tonight. I like your suit. Oh Thank you, isn't it ridiculous? Yeah, it's good. You stand out. I like it very so. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I thought I'd blend in with the crowd tonight, you know You know the Americans they're very theatrical right this everything Americans do is theatrical and so this presidential debate it's theater of the best sort and I'm down here to have an adventure, you know? And so, and it's what I should be concentrating on.
Starting point is 00:38:33 Am I writing, you know? But, in for a penny, in for a pound. That's for sure. Yeah. Okay's for sure. Yeah. Okay, kiddo. Bye, I'll talk to you soon. Bye, bye.
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