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Oh boy, oh boy, we are in for a treat. Good afternoon. My name is Michael Miles and let that be you're welcome for the next hour

We have with us one of my good friends got sad whose new book the sad truth about happiness is out now and is doing very well

I want to give a little backstory to this book and this episode

Because Gat and I think in many ways have similar personalities. He's a evolutionary professor psychology

He's written has other book the parasitic mind has done gangbusters, which I've read and enjoyed

I made a point not to read this book so we can discuss it on the air and encourage people to from your own words

Why they should read it and I'm very excited to hear one of the things I want to point out

A lot of times when I have guests on people wonder what they're like in real life

And I was on Gavin Meking is this podcast must have been 10 years ago

And I said I don't use the word friend because the word friend is not

informative because you use the word friend for someone you work with my friend at work and use the word friend for the person you call when your mom does and these are not conceptually the same

person

So I always say good friend and my definition of good friend is someone who I have spent time with one-on-one and talked about

In personal important issues that's so when you hear me say good friend that that's what that means

one of the reasons I became an author

Is I didn't want to have a boss

I don't want to have an alarm clock

I didn't ever want to talk to anyone. I didn't want to or have small talk and the thing about Gat sad is when you have conversations with him in real life

There's never small talk. It's really

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