Joe Rogan Experience #2180 - Jordan Peterson

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Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (instrumental music plays) You don't use headphones, huh?

Messes up my hair.

(laughs) Good to see you.

Good to see you too, man.

What's going on in your, uh, your coat today? Every day is a new one.

Yeah, well, I've got this suit maker, LGFG, Dmitri, the crazy Russian, and he, you know, pays attention to what I'm doing and makes me the suits that he thinks are suitable and, uh, I wear them.

You've gotten quite extravagant though, like sometimes like one half of the suit is one color-

Yep.

... like, it looks like, like you're getting bored. You just wanna switch it up a lot.

He sends me these damn things and I get them and I think, "There's no way I, I wear that. There's no way I'll wear that." And then I put it on, I think, "Huh, I like that."

(laughs)

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Tammy puts up with it, so, you know.

Is it everyday suits now with you? Is that-

Pretty m- I'm in a suit pretty much all the time, you know, so...

Is there a reason for that?

Well, the original reason was because, um, probably because my father, he was a teacher and, uh, he always wore a suit, even in the '70s when that started to become, you know, like, 1950s thing. And, uh, I asked him one time why he did that and he said it was to show respect for his students. And then when I was a professor, well, i- when you start to be a professor, you're not that much difference in age from your students to begin with. It's a good way of laying out a demarcation.

Mm.

And that was helpful. That's useful. You know, people like to know how the hierarchies are delineated.

Right.

And professors like to think that they're everybody's buddy, but that's not the right relationship. And so that was helpful. And then when I went on tour in 2018, you know, I realized that I was gonna speak live in front of several hundred thousand people over the course of the tour and I thought, you got to think when you have an opportunity like that, that if you had the least amount of sense, you'd pull out all the stops. So I bought some expensive suits, and then one of the things that happened in, in consequence of that was that people started to come to the lectures in suits. And so about, I'd say about 40% of the audience dresses formally. And lots of the young guys who come, they tell me when I meet them afterwards, in the meet and greets for example, that they bought their first suit to come to the lectures.