We have Dr. Gad Sad for the entire hour.

And he is one of my favorite public intellectuals.

He was one of Charlie's favorite public intellectuals.

He has so much insight to bring to bear that we needed a whole hour.

So without further ado, welcome back to the show, Dr. Sad.

What a lovely introduction.

Thank you.

And I just posted on X, but it's worth maybe repeating here live, that today is the first day of Passover.

And I thought it was particularly apropos to take this high Jewish holiday and come on the show to honor Charlie. Charlie, you live on in our hearts and

minds. Amen. Yeah. We actually played a clip and it'll air tomorrow actually. But Charlie reflecting on

how Easter and Passover always overlap and what an important season this is for

Christians and Jews. So it's great to have you, sir. There's so much suicidal empathy going on.

Let me give you your proper dues here. Dr. Gadsad, you are the scholar at the Declaration of

Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom. For a Lebanese-born,

man, that is quite the jump, but you do love this country. You love American freedom. You love

the West. And that's at the University of Mississippi. You are also, you have a forthcoming book,

the suicidal empathy. And I just love the cover. If you guys could throw this up.

Yeah, you got the sheep on there, free the wolves. Dying to be kind. It's kind of the, it's kind of a

take on the, you know, I guess the chick filet, you know, where they're always trying to say, you know, the cow, the cow take, you know, eat the cows. Anyway, so this is, actually, it's a cow saying eat more chicken. So anyways, but it's a great cover there. And I, we've been hearing about you writing this book for some time. So when does it come out so people can pre-order? Let's just start there,

Dr. Said. Thank you so much. May 12th, 2026, so in about six weeks. But if I can just engage in

some shameless plugging, it's really important if you can actually pre-order the book. Because

what happens is that all the amassed pre-orders, then when the book is released, they all count

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