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Joining us now is Dr. Gad Sade, a professor Intellectual, author of several bestselling books, The Parasitic Mind, a new book that's coming out, I think, in just a couple of weeks. Suicidal Empathy, that is already a bestseller, as I understand it. Welcome to the sit down. Great to be with you. Thank you for having me. Yeah, thanks for coming on. So you've started

in evolutionary psychology, understanding human behavior, but have very much grown into a public

figure, a public commentator on human behavior.

What was that transition like from point A to point B?

You know, I've always loved publishing academic papers.

This is how we advance knowledge, you know,

irrespective of which discipline we're working in.

But I grew a bit impatient with the speed at which

information flows within academic settings, right? If you publish a academic paper and it is highly

successful, that means that probably you'll get 100 citations in 10 years. Well, 100 citations means that, you know,

100 other academics have cited that work, maybe in a decade. Well, I can get on a show,

Joe Rogan, and I can have 20 million people consuming that knowledge. So I view my job as a academic as one that is twofold. I have to

create knowledge, but then I have to disseminate knowledge and all bets are off when it comes to

disseminating knowledge. So here I'm a bit different than many of my colleagues who've always felt

comfortable only operating within the ecosystem that they're

familiar with.

I'd like to say that I was certainly one of the first ones to appreciate these types of

interactions.

So thank you for having me on.

Yeah, I know it's resonant with me.

I worked for a little while for an advocacy organization, national advocacy organization,

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