Discussing Suicidal Empathy, Lionel Messi, & Dante Alighieri (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_1024)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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Society & Culture, Science, Education

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🗓️ 22 July 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This chat took place on July 2, 2026 and was hosted by Dr. Daniel Ross Goodman. The eventual article in the Washington Examiner stemming from our chat can be found here: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4650913/gad-saad-suicidal-empathy-doctor-diagnosed-the-west/ _______________________________________ To order Suicidal Empathy: https://lnk.to/SuicidalEmpathy To order a signed copy of Suicidal Empathy: https://premierecollectibles.com/suicidalempathy _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad To subscribe to my exclusive content on X, please visit my bio at https://x.com/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted on July 22, 2026 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_2058: https://youtu.be/WsOQ1cWgBwE _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0	Good afternoon. It's my pleasure today to be speaking with Dr. Godd Sade.
0:07.0	My pleasure to be speaking again with Dr. Godd Sall. I should say we first spoke several years ago
0:12.6	on the occasion of the publication of your previous book on happiness, which was really
0:18.1	delight to read, and it's really a delight to read you all the time
0:23.7	and all the formats that you write in.
0:27.3	The books, though, are just fantastic.
0:29.7	And this book, the latest suicidal empathy, congratulations, first of all, hit number one on the New York Times best hour list, that must have been absolutely spectacular
0:44.0	to get that news.
0:45.7	It was.
0:46.6	And actually, the way it works is that the, well, first, thank you for having me on.
0:52.3	And as you said, we had a great conversation a couple of years ago so i'm
0:56.6	delighted to be speaking with you again uh the way it works is that on the wednesday so so the book
1:03.1	comes out on a tuesday and then the first time that is eligible for uh the new york times best
1:09.3	cell list would be eight days later on that Wednesday. And somewhere
1:13.6	between 4 to 6 p.m. Eastern, I was told to be on standby because then we would find out, you know,
1:21.7	the New York Times would call my publisher. And I had the foresight to tell them, don't call me until you first text me to tell me
1:31.8	that you're going to call me because then I want my family to record the interaction.
1:37.4	But I didn't know what it would end up being.
1:40.0	Now they thought that it, you know, based on the numbers, that it would definitely debut at number one,
1:44.9	but, you know, you never know with sort of the editorial discretion that they have.
1:49.5	Yeah.
1:49.7	So I actually taped it.
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