#2497 - Gad Saad

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.5 • 245.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 157 minutes

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Dr. Gad Saad is a scholar at the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at the University of Mississippi and host of “The Saad Truth.” His new book, “Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind,” is available now. www.harpercollins.com/products/suicidal-empathy-gad-saadwww.youtube.com/@GadSaadwww.gadsaad.com Perplexity: Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at https://pplx.ai/rogan. Uber Eats makes last-minute gifting easy. https://www.ubereats.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Joe Rogan podcast checking out.
0:04.0	The Joe Rogan Experience.
0:06.1	Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
0:12.6	Good to see you, sir.
0:14.0	Oh, so good to see you.
0:15.1	What's happening?
0:15.8	How you been?
0:17.0	Doing great.
0:18.2	Got big news.
0:19.7	Big?
0:19.9	I'll talk big, very big. Before I start with a... Okay. Drops. The book. Suicidal empathy. The quote that we use all the time. That's right. Yeah, it is a good quote. And it is a very accurate quote for the times. I like this with their're carrying the sign, free the wolves, the lamb that's carrying.
0:39.7	Well, I wanted the cover to be as evocative as the concept, right?
0:45.5	Dying to be kind.
0:46.8	There you go.
0:47.8	And there are just in the last two days, there have been so many new cases of suicidal
0:52.5	empathy that I regret that I couldn't include
0:54.7	them in the book.
0:56.1	Like which ones?
0:57.3	So did you hear about the one where the guy who tried to assassinate President Trump?
1:02.7	Oh, yeah.
1:03.3	The judge then went and said, I am so sorry that, you know, you're not being treated nicely.
1:08.1	You have a room without a window.
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