The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast XX
[0] Hello, everyone.
[1] I'm here today talking to Stephen Bonnell, known professionally and online as destiny.
[2] He's an American streamer, debater, and political commentator.
[3] He really came to my attention, I would say, as a consequence of the discussion he had with Ben Shapiro and Lex Friedman, and I decided to talk to him, not least because it's not that easy to bring people who are identified, at least to some degree, with the political beliefs on the left into a studio where I can actually have a conversation with them.
[4] I've tried that more often than you might think.
[5] And it happens now and then, but not very often.
[6] So today we talk a lot about, well, the differences between the left and the right and the dangers of political ideology per se and the use of power as opposed to invitation and all sorts of other heated, often heated and contentious issues.
[7] And so you're welcome to join us.
[8] And I was happy to have the opportunity to do this.
[9] So I guess we might as will start by letting the people who don't know who you are get to know who you are with a little bit more precision.
[10] So why have you become known?
[11] And how has that developed?
[12] It's a pretty broad question.
[13] I think I started streaming around 15 years ago when it wasn't really a thing yet.
[14] There were a few people that did it.
[15] I started early on.
[16] I was a, well, I guess back then you weren't a professional game because a game had just started to come out.
[17] But there was a game called StarCraft 2, and I streamed myself playing that game.
[18] I was a pretty good player, it was pretty entertaining to watch.
[19] And then I kind of grew over, I guess, maybe the next seven years, just streaming that people would watch.
[20] Streaming on YouTube?
[21] Well, back then I started on a website called LiveStream, then I switched to YouStream, then I switched to a site called Justin TV, and then that turned into Twitch