506. Europe Imploding | Andrew Doyle & Graham Linehan
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What is the main theme of this podcast episode?
Thank you.
So a couple of announcements. First, I'm on tour again. And so if you go to jordanbpeterson.com, you can find out cities and dates. And that starts in December and runs through April. So check that out if you're inclined. The tour deals with the issues that I raise in my new book, which came out on November 19th. It's called We Who Wrestle With God. And in that book, I take apart a sequence of Old Testament stories and explain, at least as far as I'm concerned, at least part of what they mean. And I try to do that in a way that's comprehensible and as profound as I could make it, but also very practically applicable. And so that's a good combination of high-level abstraction and immediate practical applicability.
You need to know these stories because they're the stories that are fundamentally about you and about everybody that you know and about how society is structured and our relationship with nature and... the divine. So come to the tour, pick up the book if you're inclined. Today, I had a chance to speak with Andrew Doyle, with whom I've spoken before. We've been in touch for a number of years now. Andrew's a comedian in the UK. The infamous creator of Titania McGrath, who was one of the most effective characters ever devised to satirize the woke left, and Andrew's been at that for a very long time. So we spent a fair bit of time discussing what he's up to as an immigrant to Phoenix. And along with Andrew, I spoke with Graham Linehan, who is joining Andrew in the establishment of a new entertainment enterprise in Phoenix with Rob Schneider and some other people. Their hope is that they can actually do some things that would be funny. And that would be a lovely thing to see since humor is in short supply in the woke totalitarian world that we inhabit now.
Although maybe the comedians, the true comedians, like Joe Rogan, will in fact have their last laugh. So we talked about Graham's life in fair detail at the beginning of the podcast because he went from riches to rags, right? Quite traumatically. Graham was... maybe the most successful sitcom writer in the UK, and the man who penned a number of shows that were beloved by, well, by very large audiences. And despite that, when he had the temerity to have some perfectly reasonable opinions about perfectly reasonable subjects, his life was demolished. His marriage ended. He was persona non grata in the artistic community, which is a complete bloody catastrophe. And eventually was inclined, not least by necessity, to sever his ties with his home country. Everyone he knew virtually turned the other way. And that's a terrible thing. And Andrew, by contrast, has sort of ridden the woke wave, I would say.
He's one of the few individuals, particularly in the UK, who has managed to turn the fact of the woke mob into something approximating enhanced commercial success. And so as Graham's ship was sinking, Andrew's star was rising. In any case, they have joined forces now and with Rob Schneider to start this new enterprise. We talked about the dismal state of the UK and Europe. We've seen a revolution in the political landscape. In the United States, there's one coming to Canada, but man, things are looking rough in the UK. their true home of common law and the tradition of free speech, and the home of at least once of the greatest comedians the world has ever seen, I think, and so that's a terrible thing to see.
And the same dismal fate at the moment appears to await Europe, and so we delved into that in some detail, touching along the way the absolute pathology of the Canadian liberal landscape under our head narcissist Justin Trudeau, who's... fated for an electoral defeat of unimaginable magnitude, but not for a whole year during which he'll do plenty of damage in precisely the way that a wounded narcissist would. Anyways, if you're interested in any or all of that, join us on this podcast. So, gentlemen, welcome. I think the first thing we should probably do is let everybody know what you have done in the past to be sufficiently reprehensible to be a worthwhile guest on this particular podcast. Graham, why don't you let everybody know, well, yeah, the nature of your sins and crimes. Yeah.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main theme of this podcast episode?
0:04–14:09
2
What are the key points discussed about woke culture?
14:09–27:31
3
How have Andrew Doyle and Graham Linehan been affected by cancel culture?
27:31–50:11
4
What challenges does the UK face regarding free speech?
50:11–1:10:10
5
What are non-crime hate incidents and their implications?
1:10:10–1:33:52
6
How does the conversation around gender identity evolve throughout the episode?
1:33:52–1:51:28