Okay, guys, special guests for you all today, Dr. Gad, SAD, SAD, Scholar at the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at the University of Mississippi, also author of many books, including parasitic mind and his forthcoming book, Suicidal Empathy. Thanks for your time today, doctor.

Great to be with you. Thank you. Did the book come out yet, the new release?

No, it hasn't come out yet. We're aiming, hopefully,

with the publisher for a release in April.

Only a single person has read it so far. And the response was,

this book, as promised, is terrific. So I'm feeling it.

Wow. What was the inspiration for making this book?

What compelled you to write it?

So let me step back a bit and sort of give people a 30,000 feet overview.

I've been a professor and offer 32 years, and my main area of scientific research is to apply evolutionary psychology and evolutionary biology to study human behavior. And I do so within the business school. So I study

consumer psychology, economic psychology, and so on. And I was amazed very early in my career

to see how people could be completely resistant to what

seems to me completely obvious and banal truths, which is that human beings are shaped by biological

forces.

For most of my social science colleagues, what makes us human is that we transcend our biology.

Biology matters for your dog.

Biology matters for the giraffe. Biology matters for the giraffe.

It matters for the mosquito, but surely it can't apply to human beings. And so that was my original

idea of saying, you know what, even very intelligent people that have professor before their name

could be complete morons. And so that led me to write the parasitic mind, which came out, this book right here, the

other one.

It came out about five and a half years ago now, almost, it was in 2020, it came out.

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