Hello, everyone, and welcome to Talk Nerdy. Today is Monday, January 12, 26, and I'm the host of the show, Dr. Kara Santa Maria. And as always, I want to thank

those of you who make Talk Nerdy possible right here before we dive into the episode.

Remember, if you are interested in pledging your support on an episodic basis, all you've

got to do is visit patreon.com slash talk nerdy to learn more.

This week's top patrons include Resolutorial, Chuck Blow, David J.E. Smith, Daniel Lang,

Mary Neva, Anu Badovaj, David Compton, Brian Holden, Gabbo J, Ulrika Hagman, Pascuali Jalati, and Joe Wilkinson.

Thank you all so, so much. All right, let's get into it. It's our second episode of the year.

We are now at number 584. I'm in my 11th year. I started the show in March of 2014,

so in a couple of months, we'll be moving on to year 12. That's incredible. So this week I have a

really interesting chat for you. I had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Jonathan Matthias Lasseter.

He is a licensed clinical psychologist with a practice in New York City. He's also an author, a speaker,

and an educator, and he has a new book out called How I Know White People Are Crazy and Other Stories,

Notes from a frustrated black psychologist. So without any further ado, here he is Dr. Jonathan

Matthias Lassiter. Well, Jonathan, thank you so much for joining me today.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here. Me too. I was really excited,

intrigued, all of the things when your book came across my desk. So it's called How I Know

White People Are Crazy and other stories, which I absolutely love.

I am a white person, and so, and I can attest to the craziness of the other individuals

and just the cultural craziness of sort of white nationalism in this country.

Notes from a frustrated black psychologist also love just putting that out there.

So one of the things I wanted to say right at the top is that I started this show 11 years ago now

when I was doing full-time science communication before I had even started to go back to school and finish my PhD in

...