Hi everybody this is Gatsad since so many people are discussing Joe Rogan these days

and how dangerous he is and how he needs to be. I thought that I would do a whole sad truth clip on how

influential Joe Rogan is in a in the positive sense of the word.

And I will read first two sections from the parasitic mind,

one of which directly quotes some Joe Rogan context and the other one doesn't but then I'll

link it to Joe Rogan.

So here we go.

This is first from page 10 and 11.

So I consider it part of my job description to engage with the public.

During a recent visit to give a lecture at the Stanford Graduate School of Business,

I had a telling conversation with the Stanford colleague who epitomizes the Ivory Tower bias.

He was aware that I had appeared on the Joe Rogan podcast,

an extraordinary popular platform,

but was clearly disdainful of such public engagement.

He seemed to think that one could either publish

in leading scientific journals or appear on Rogan's show.

I disabused him of this false either or proposition by pointing out that a complete academic

should strive to do both. Many professors forget that their professional responsibility is not only

to generate new knowledge, but also to seek to maximally disseminate it.

Social media offers endless such opportunities by allowing ideas to spread quickly and to a very large number of people.

No rational intellectual should oppose such a possibility, and yet many succumb to what I refer

to as the Garage Band effect. If you are a struggling band that plays in your

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