I'll ask the question that's on everybody's mind this week. What exactly is going on with Dr. Jordan Peterson? It looks He's describing benzo withdrawal to a T, an overwhelming sense of impending doom and horrific insomnia. Another user writes, Exactly what I just said, Bro had the withdrawals in the worst way. Been cleaning sober for over 12 years now, but benzos are harder to stop than heroin.This last person writes, he didn't say apple cider vinegar. He said, Cider. My inference is that it was alcoholic cider. His reaction sounds like benzo withdrawal. Probably was combining booze and benzos for a while. In any event, we aren't getting the full story. Lastly, this person writes, When I was detoxing off of methadone, I didn't sleep for almost three months. It is possible you're in a twilight half awake, barely asleep with no real rest. If If you've never been through addiction and/or detoxed from anything, then you have no idea what you're talking about. So yes, the internet, people that have lived through this understood that what he was actually going through, far from the story that he was painting, was withdrawal. Good old fashioned withdrawal well, which a lot of drug users obviously know can lead to insomnia. Now, jumping back into the New York Post narrative. Now, again, Jordan is speaking out about having had this addiction. Jordan said he was prescribed a low dose of antidepressants to help him recover. I don't know if it's from the meat detox. I honestly can't follow. But the dosage was increased after Peterson sunk into depression following his wife, Tammy's cancer diagnosis.I'm going to be honest about when all this was coming out and it was all very confusing and it wasn't quite clear, is this a food allergy? Is this depression? Is this just somebody who's addicted to pills and doesn't want to quite tell the public? I was having private conversations with people and people that are in the concerned movement going, I don't see how he's going to recover from this moment because it just seems to me that if your entire brand is built on telling people how to order their lives, and then what becomes apparent is that your life is in disarray, how do they trust you again? I think that's the big question. How do they trust you again? How do they rely on you? I had to examine myself at that moment because people were saying, Oh, no, it's all about the comeback. I believe in comebacks, but I believe that comebacks can only happen when you are radically honest. I don't think people sensed, as you can see by those comments, that he was being radically honest in what had occurred to him. Instead, they felt that he was trying to give a PR spin to what may have just been a good old-fashioned drug addiction.I thought, Maybe I have a chip on my shoulder because, listen, I didn't have a pretty childhood and I've seen drug addiction, and I do have a very low tolerance for it, I'll be honest. When people are talking about their addiction struggles and I'm thinking, Man, I wish addiction wasn't an option for me. People that just turn to drugs as a solution for every problem It's hard for me to feel bad because there are people that grew up in sets and circumstances that are so much worse, and they don't turn to drinking, and they don't turn to drugs. I checked myself and I said, You know what, Candice? That is actually you just having a chip on your shoulder. Maybe it's true that it's amazing. Maybe Jordan Peterson, having a male audience that he has, will actually come out of this better and stronger because he will share with the world how he was able to overcome this and reorder his life. Write another book, How to Reorder your Life After a Chaotic Seen. But that wasn't the case. I think men felt like they couldn't trust him. They never felt that he was fully honest, and it felt like there was a lot of him and his daughter trying to condition this in a different vein, whether it was talking about his wife's cancer diagnosis, and I hope that she's okay.I think that she is, which is amazing. I know that she's recently come to faith. There never seemed to be that big, radical, honest moment that came from him. Then Let me fast forward to October 7, 2023, a day that will live in conservative media infamy because it just was a moment where people behaved in ways that the public is never going to forget, in my view. On that day, Jordan Peterson did not tweet like Jordan Peterson, which is to say he did not tweet in a calm, rational manner. Here is what he tweeted. He wrote, Give them hell, Netanyahu. Enough is enough. He began trending, and He lost a huge following, partially because he was perhaps not aware, because I'm sure, listen, he's 62 years old. He probably is not aware of the demographics of his audience. But it turns out that Jordan Peterson had a huge following of Muslims behind him, and they felt that this response was not calm. It was not dictated by rationality or the logos, which Jordan Peterson loves to speak about. He speaks about how postmodernism wants you to abandon your logos. It wants you just to react emotionally without properly thinking.It seems that that's exactly what Jordan Peterson did on October seventh. He wasn't asking for people to be calm. He was participating in the madness of crowds that he often speaks about. People did not like that. You saw people in the Muslim community saying, We will never listen to another word that he ever says because he has not used his platform to talk about some of the hell that Muslims have also been enduring. Time has obviously passed since then. We're almost at a full year, just shy of a full year of October seventh, and I don't think his audience has fully recovered But I can tell you that what just took place online at the end of last week was very strange. I was watching this back and forth, and it was extremely strange. I will set this up for you. Again, Mikaela Peterson is his daughter, and she communicates a lot of what is happening with JP, so people see her as auxiliary to him. Now, to be fair, she is not Jordan Peterson. Of course, she is not Jordan Peterson, and we can't say that every word that she says should somehow reflect on what her father's viewpoints are.But she did tweet this. She wrote, Yes, I think the Nazis on X, equating Jews with rats and using hashtags like filth, should have more content moderation and censorship. No, I'm not retracting that statement. Okay, what? You're just straight up calling for censorship. I mean, saying using the hashtag filth, that is literally an English word. You can say that word whenever you want. In fact, rather notoriously, I use the word filth to describe rabbi Shmouli. I use that word to describe rabbi Shmouli because rabbi Shmouli is filth. I meant what I said. This man harassed me for two years. I would be really, honestly shocked and disgusted if somebody would dictate that I'm the one that deserves to be censored after this man harassed me for two years, and I never called for his censorship or has had daughter censorship. I just said, You're filth because you are filth, and that is my right to use that term. For Mikaela to make such a strong statement calling for censorship is not going to reflect well on her father, particularly because her father has said things like this in the past. Take a listen.Freedom of speech is a cardinal value, not because it gives you the freedom to speak exactly, but because without that freedom, we can't think. We can't improve our institutions.I totally agree with what George Ortega people are losing trust in the institutions and they're perceiving him as part and parcel of those institutions now. Anyways, again, I would welcome that conversation with you, Dr. Peterson. It would be a just go head to head on what we know. I'm like, What do you know? What do you know? No, what do you know? How come you brought a bath in it? How come you knew about the transition? What are you saying, Kat Williams? I want to know what's going on, Kat Williams. Me and Kat Williams need to be put in a room together for 6 hours.Everybody knows this. This conversation must be recorded. Just harass him, and we will do our best to make it happen. All right, guys. Unfortunately, that is all the time that we have for today, reminding you to head to Club Candice. Here's a full... I mean, look at this Man of the Year. Look at him. Just absolutely love it. Please go, go, support. Head to clubcandice. Com. Of course, to all of you that are already supporting or are looking to support, you can go to locals. Com and give a one-time donation so we can keep this show free so I can keep talking my smack without anybody telling me what I can or cannot say. That's again, locals. Com. Find us one-time donation or you can come a monthly supporter. Either way, we appreciate you. Share the episodes if you can afford to support us right now. I totally understand. We will see you guys tomorrow.

He's describing benzo withdrawal to a T, an overwhelming sense of impending doom and horrific insomnia. Another user writes, Exactly what I just said, Bro had the withdrawals in the worst way. Been cleaning sober for over 12 years now, but benzos are harder to stop than heroin.

This last person writes, he didn't say apple cider vinegar. He said, Cider. My inference is that it was alcoholic cider. His reaction sounds like benzo withdrawal. Probably was combining booze and benzos for a while. In any event, we aren't getting the full story. Lastly, this person writes, When I was detoxing off of methadone, I didn't sleep for almost three months. It is possible you're in a twilight half awake, barely asleep with no real rest. If If you've never been through addiction and/or detoxed from anything, then you have no idea what you're talking about. So yes, the internet, people that have lived through this understood that what he was actually going through, far from the story that he was painting, was withdrawal. Good old fashioned withdrawal well, which a lot of drug users obviously know can lead to insomnia. Now, jumping back into the New York Post narrative. Now, again, Jordan is speaking out about having had this addiction. Jordan said he was prescribed a low dose of antidepressants to help him recover. I don't know if it's from the meat detox. I honestly can't follow. But the dosage was increased after Peterson sunk into depression following his wife, Tammy's cancer diagnosis.

I'm going to be honest about when all this was coming out and it was all very confusing and it wasn't quite clear, is this a food allergy? Is this depression? Is this just somebody who's addicted to pills and doesn't want to quite tell the public? I was having private conversations with people and people that are in the concerned movement going, I don't see how he's going to recover from this moment because it just seems to me that if your entire brand is built on telling people how to order their lives, and then what becomes apparent is that your life is in disarray, how do they trust you again? I think that's the big question. How do they trust you again? How do they rely on you? I had to examine myself at that moment because people were saying, Oh, no, it's all about the comeback. I believe in comebacks, but I believe that comebacks can only happen when you are radically honest. I don't think people sensed, as you can see by those comments, that he was being radically honest in what had occurred to him. Instead, they felt that he was trying to give a PR spin to what may have just been a good old-fashioned drug addiction.

I thought, Maybe I have a chip on my shoulder because, listen, I didn't have a pretty childhood and I've seen drug addiction, and I do have a very low tolerance for it, I'll be honest. When people are talking about their addiction struggles and I'm thinking, Man, I wish addiction wasn't an option for me. People that just turn to drugs as a solution for every problem It's hard for me to feel bad because there are people that grew up in sets and circumstances that are so much worse, and they don't turn to drinking, and they don't turn to drugs. I checked myself and I said, You know what, Candice? That is actually you just having a chip on your shoulder. Maybe it's true that it's amazing. Maybe Jordan Peterson, having a male audience that he has, will actually come out of this better and stronger because he will share with the world how he was able to overcome this and reorder his life. Write another book, How to Reorder your Life After a Chaotic Seen. But that wasn't the case. I think men felt like they couldn't trust him. They never felt that he was fully honest, and it felt like there was a lot of him and his daughter trying to condition this in a different vein, whether it was talking about his wife's cancer diagnosis, and I hope that she's okay.

I think that she is, which is amazing. I know that she's recently come to faith. There never seemed to be that big, radical, honest moment that came from him. Then Let me fast forward to October 7, 2023, a day that will live in conservative media infamy because it just was a moment where people behaved in ways that the public is never going to forget, in my view. On that day, Jordan Peterson did not tweet like Jordan Peterson, which is to say he did not tweet in a calm, rational manner. Here is what he tweeted. He wrote, Give them hell, Netanyahu. Enough is enough. He began trending, and He lost a huge following, partially because he was perhaps not aware, because I'm sure, listen, he's 62 years old. He probably is not aware of the demographics of his audience. But it turns out that Jordan Peterson had a huge following of Muslims behind him, and they felt that this response was not calm. It was not dictated by rationality or the logos, which Jordan Peterson loves to speak about. He speaks about how postmodernism wants you to abandon your logos. It wants you just to react emotionally without properly thinking.

It seems that that's exactly what Jordan Peterson did on October seventh. He wasn't asking for people to be calm. He was participating in the madness of crowds that he often speaks about. People did not like that. You saw people in the Muslim community saying, We will never listen to another word that he ever says because he has not used his platform to talk about some of the hell that Muslims have also been enduring. Time has obviously passed since then. We're almost at a full year, just shy of a full year of October seventh, and I don't think his audience has fully recovered But I can tell you that what just took place online at the end of last week was very strange. I was watching this back and forth, and it was extremely strange. I will set this up for you. Again, Mikaela Peterson is his daughter, and she communicates a lot of what is happening with JP, so people see her as auxiliary to him. Now, to be fair, she is not Jordan Peterson. Of course, she is not Jordan Peterson, and we can't say that every word that she says should somehow reflect on what her father's viewpoints are.

But she did tweet this. She wrote, Yes, I think the Nazis on X, equating Jews with rats and using hashtags like filth, should have more content moderation and censorship. No, I'm not retracting that statement. Okay, what? You're just straight up calling for censorship. I mean, saying using the hashtag filth, that is literally an English word. You can say that word whenever you want. In fact, rather notoriously, I use the word filth to describe rabbi Shmouli. I use that word to describe rabbi Shmouli because rabbi Shmouli is filth. I meant what I said. This man harassed me for two years. I would be really, honestly shocked and disgusted if somebody would dictate that I'm the one that deserves to be censored after this man harassed me for two years, and I never called for his censorship or has had daughter censorship. I just said, You're filth because you are filth, and that is my right to use that term. For Mikaela to make such a strong statement calling for censorship is not going to reflect well on her father, particularly because her father has said things like this in the past. Take a listen.

Freedom of speech is a cardinal value, not because it gives you the freedom to speak exactly, but because without that freedom, we can't think. We can't improve our institutions.

I totally agree with what George Ortega people are losing trust in the institutions and they're perceiving him as part and parcel of those institutions now. Anyways, again, I would welcome that conversation with you, Dr. Peterson. It would be a just go head to head on what we know. I'm like, What do you know? What do you know? No, what do you know? How come you brought a bath in it? How come you knew about the transition? What are you saying, Kat Williams? I want to know what's going on, Kat Williams. Me and Kat Williams need to be put in a room together for 6 hours.Everybody knows this. This conversation must be recorded. Just harass him, and we will do our best to make it happen. All right, guys. Unfortunately, that is all the time that we have for today, reminding you to head to Club Candice. Here's a full... I mean, look at this Man of the Year. Look at him. Just absolutely love it. Please go, go, support. Head to clubcandice. Com. Of course, to all of you that are already supporting or are looking to support, you can go to locals. Com and give a one-time donation so we can keep this show free so I can keep talking my smack without anybody telling me what I can or cannot say. That's again, locals. Com. Find us one-time donation or you can come a monthly supporter. Either way, we appreciate you. Share the episodes if you can afford to support us right now. I totally understand. We will see you guys tomorrow.

people are losing trust in the institutions and they're perceiving him as part and parcel of those institutions now. Anyways, again, I would welcome that conversation with you, Dr. Peterson. It would be a just go head to head on what we know. I'm like, What do you know? What do you know? No, what do you know? How come you brought a bath in it? How come you knew about the transition? What are you saying, Kat Williams? I want to know what's going on, Kat Williams. Me and Kat Williams need to be put in a room together for 6 hours.Everybody knows this. This conversation must be recorded. Just harass him, and we will do our best to make it happen. All right, guys. Unfortunately, that is all the time that we have for today, reminding you to head to Club Candice. Here's a full... I mean, look at this Man of the Year. Look at him. Just absolutely love it. Please go, go, support. Head to clubcandice. Com. Of course, to all of you that are already supporting or are looking to support, you can go to locals. Com and give a one-time donation so we can keep this show free so I can keep talking my smack without anybody telling me what I can or cannot say. That's again, locals. Com. Find us one-time donation or you can come a monthly supporter. Either way, we appreciate you. Share the episodes if you can afford to support us right now. I totally understand. We will see you guys tomorrow.

just go head to head on what we know. I'm like, What do you know? What do you know? No, what do you know? How come you brought a bath in it? How come you knew about the transition? What are you saying, Kat Williams? I want to know what's going on, Kat Williams. Me and Kat Williams need to be put in a room together for 6 hours.

Everybody knows this. This conversation must be recorded. Just harass him, and we will do our best to make it happen. All right, guys. Unfortunately, that is all the time that we have for today, reminding you to head to Club Candice. Here's a full... I mean, look at this Man of the Year. Look at him. Just absolutely love it. Please go, go, support. Head to clubcandice. Com. Of course, to all of you that are already supporting or are looking to support, you can go to locals. Com and give a one-time donation so we can keep this show free so I can keep talking my smack without anybody telling me what I can or cannot say. That's again, locals. Com. Find us one-time donation or you can come a monthly supporter. Either way, we appreciate you. Share the episodes if you can afford to support us right now. I totally understand. We will see you guys tomorrow.