In a small production studio in South Florida Jordan Peterson is sitting alone, motionless as Rodin’s Thinker, on a podcast set lined with bookshelves when he directs a question about sound levels to a crew of unseen technicians.
They are watching him via four different cameras in a nearby control room, tightening shots and adjusting angles on what the kids might describe as his “resting melancholy face.” But with the concern about sound, Peterson’s famously hangdog features spring to life. He’s worried that the volume in his miniscule IFB earpiece will be too low for him to properly hear his guest, Canadian journalist Rex Murphy, who will be linking in digitally from Toronto. He also doesn’t want interjections from producers to derail the natural flow of their dialogue.
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