Mark Slapinski - October 05, 2025


Jordan Peterson’s Daughter Makes SHOCKING Announcement


Episode Stats

Length

8 minutes

Words per Minute

144.15253

Word Count

1,240

Sentence Count

97


Summary

Jordan Pearson, the renowned psychologist and conservative superstar, is not doing so well. Last night, his daughter made a shocking announcement to the world. She shared an update on her father's illness, and how she and her family are coping with it.


Transcript

00:00:00.160 Jordan Pearson, the renowned psychologist and conservative superstar, he's not doing so well.
00:00:06.200 Last night, his daughter made a shocking announcement to the world.
00:00:09.540 Let's watch that together and stick around to the end for some thoughts.
00:00:13.020 Hey guys, I have an update on my dad.
00:00:16.160 I'm actually just going to read this.
00:00:17.980 It's on my teleprompter because this is too hard to explain off the cuff, so I wrote it out.
00:00:24.820 This summer has been exceedingly difficult.
00:00:26.860 Dad was in an ICU suffering from pneumonia and sepsis after dealing with a host of neurological issues this summer that we believe stem from SIRS, which is chronic inflammatory response syndrome due to decades of mold exposure.
00:00:44.900 We don't have a better explanation for his neurological symptoms at the moment other than spiritual attacks.
00:00:50.640 He's been suffering for the last number of years with unexplainable neuropathy and weakness amongst other symptoms, but they worsened this summer after he cleaned out his parents' basement after his dad, my grandpa, passed away.
00:01:05.780 We weren't able to communicate with dad really all of September.
00:01:08.700 During the end of the pneumonia, he was diagnosed with critical illness polyneuropathy, which we're hoping is critical illness myopathy, which is bad enough.
00:01:20.780 That's been heartbreaking and brutal on top of everything else.
00:01:23.920 But after almost a month in the ICU, he's been moved out to a less urgent floor.
00:01:29.200 Praise God for that.
00:01:30.280 We're still in the midst of this, but now we're seeing improvements daily.
00:01:36.860 The timeline for his full recovery is hard to tell at the moment, and I'll update everyone when we have more information.
00:01:43.500 My family's asking for prayers.
00:01:45.820 Like I said, this summer's been exceedingly difficult and terrifying.
00:01:49.800 Dad's condition is complicated by the fact he can't take most medications without suffering from severe paradoxical reactions, which limits treatment options.
00:01:58.320 Like I mentioned, I believe there's a spiritual element at play here.
00:02:03.940 I think a lot of people have felt it in the last few weeks and months.
00:02:07.460 It's been hitting my dad and my family hard this summer.
00:02:10.600 In August, the day dad was brought to a hospital by ambulance, my newborn, Audrey, was also brought to a hospital by ambulance within hours of each other.
00:02:20.700 It was unbelievable.
00:02:22.780 This was the second time this summer we had brought Audrey to the hospital after she almost died from near heart failure at six weeks old that is exceedingly rare and they couldn't find a cause for.
00:02:36.600 She was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary hypertension, which seems to have resolved.
00:02:42.660 Praise God.
00:02:43.920 But it's not something that happens.
00:02:46.780 You know, this was late July after dad and I recorded some episodes of the call-in show together.
00:02:55.320 Everything went just really downhill fast after that.
00:02:59.140 Every single day this summer and now fall has been like watching a movie.
00:03:04.580 Our family's relying heavily on the Lord through this and seeing miracles around us, we are.
00:03:09.540 And I'm also aware that God uses everything for good.
00:03:12.980 So eventually we'll see why this is happening or what comes of it.
00:03:17.020 But mom and I in particular really wanted to reach out and ask for prayers to help everyone get through this.
00:03:22.820 Especially for my dad and for my mom.
00:03:24.880 But also for the nurses and doctors taking care of him, my brother, and family and friends who have come to support us.
00:03:31.440 I miss my dad.
00:03:32.800 My brother misses his dad.
00:03:35.060 My mom misses her best friend and husband.
00:03:37.120 Thank you.
00:03:37.340 Thank you.
00:03:42.980 Oh, man.
00:04:03.300 I thought I wasn't going to cry during this.
00:04:09.400 Oh, man.
00:04:10.800 Well, he's hopefully recovering.
00:04:35.400 And like I said, I'll keep people updated.
00:04:37.580 He has a team of people, including myself, continuing his mission, including Peterson Academy.
00:04:44.820 And we'll be releasing his We Who Wrestle With God tour to everyone on YouTube, which he's wanted to do for a long time.
00:04:53.360 And given we think there's a spiritual element at play here, we believe the right way to fight back is to keep going and push harder, if anything.
00:05:01.600 Life isn't necessarily supposed to get easier when you're doing the right thing.
00:05:06.000 And I can see God's hand throughout this, but it's a lot to handle.
00:05:10.280 My family agreed or wanted to delay updating everybody because a lot has happened over the last few months.
00:05:19.640 And we were hoping he would recover faster and we would see bigger improvements sooner and have better news.
00:05:27.160 And it was really a near-death experience for a long time.
00:05:32.000 So we've been just dealing with this one day at a time.
00:05:35.120 We still are.
00:05:36.940 It's been overwhelming, but it looks like, and we're praying that things are headed in the right direction.
00:05:42.520 He's out of the ICU.
00:05:44.640 So that's the main thing.
00:05:46.080 He's out of the ICU.
00:05:48.560 Like I said, praise God for that.
00:05:51.460 Thank you all for listening.
00:05:53.080 Thank you for the prayers.
00:05:55.040 Thank you to everybody who's reached out.
00:05:59.800 I'll be back on YouTube maybe in the next month or so, depending on how things go.
00:06:10.200 Yeah, that's the update.
00:06:12.520 Thanks, guys.
00:06:13.640 So needless to say, this is concerning.
00:06:16.020 The fact that his daughter put this video out definitely says something.
00:06:19.700 Now, we all know that Jordan Peterson has struggled throughout the years with various health issues.
00:06:23.980 However, I get the sense this time it's a little bit worse.
00:06:27.140 We need to keep Jordan Peterson and his family in our prayers.
00:06:30.980 Hopefully he gets better.
00:06:32.420 Earlier this year, Don Cherry also announced that he's not in good health and will be quitting podcasting for the rest of his life.
00:06:38.780 It's always sad when a public figure that we've respected and seen around so much suddenly disappears.
00:06:45.140 To be fair, Jordan Peterson is younger than Don Cherry, and I hope he can make a full recovery and return to what he was doing before.
00:06:52.060 So to end this off, I'm going to show you a clip from Better Times.
00:06:54.820 This is an interview between Pierre Polyev and Jordan Peterson that was released before the federal election.
00:06:59.820 Thanks for tuning in.
00:07:01.540 Have a great weekend.
00:07:02.640 Talk to you tomorrow.
00:07:03.340 This has really transpired in large part over the nine to ten year period that Trudeau has been governing.
00:07:10.980 And so when you are trying to put your finger on what went so wrong, so calamitously wrong, what do you think the major contributors were?
00:07:22.780 I mean, there's a lot of hydras whose heads we're encountering at the moment.
00:07:27.300 And I imagine it's relatively difficult to trace a causal pathway.
00:07:31.740 But what did we do wrong as a country?
00:07:34.180 Well, I mean, it doesn't – what I'm about to say is not a shock to anyone.
00:07:42.360 We have a prime minister who is dedicated to an extremely radical ideology.
00:07:49.080 It is just a rehashed socialism that has been discredited again and again and again throughout the ages.
00:07:56.900 And his basically authoritarian socialism has guided him throughout his entire prime ministership.
00:08:05.920 He believes in a state that controls every aspect of your life, your money, your speech, your thought.
00:08:13.120 He controls the economic – all of the industries of the country.
00:08:18.580 And every time that has been tried, it is a complete disaster.
00:08:22.960 So there's no mystery involved.
00:08:24.860 And it is the same old disastrous outcome that results from the same old disastrous policies.
00:08:30.760 Right, that have demonstrated themselves as disastrous continuously throughout the 20th century.
00:08:35.780 Exactly.