#2497 - Gad Saad
5/12/20262 hr 43 min
Gad Saad, PhD, is an evolutionary behavioral scientist, a professor of marketing at Concordia University, and host of “The Saad Truth.” His new book, “Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind,” is available now.
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First 90 secondsJoe Rogan· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
Gad Saad· Guest0:03
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Joe Rogan· Host0:05
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night. All day. [upbeat music] Good to see you, sir.
Gad Saad· Guest0:13
Oh, so good to see you.
Joe Rogan· Host0:15
What's happening? How you been?
Gad Saad· Guest0:16
Doing great. Uh, got big news.
Joe Rogan· Host0:19
Big?
Gad Saad· Guest0:20
I'll, I'll talk ... Big, very big.
Joe Rogan· Host0:21
Big. Really big?
Gad Saad· Guest0:21
Before I start with any- Okay ... drops.
Joe Rogan· Host0:24
The book. Suicidal Empathy.
Gad Saad· Guest0:27
Suicidal Empathy.
Joe Rogan· Host0:27
It's a quote that we use all the time.
Gad Saad· Guest0:29
That's right.
Joe Rogan· Host0:30
Yeah, it is, uh, it is a good quote, and it is a very accurate quote for the times. I like this, where they're carrying the sign, "Free the wolves." [laughs] The lamb is carrying- Well, I wanted the, the cover to be as evocative as the, the concept, right? Dying to be kind.
Gad Saad· Guest0:46
[laughs] There you go. And there are ... Just in the last two days, there have been so many new cases of suicidal empathy that I regret that I couldn't include them in the book, but- Like which ones? So did you hear about the one where the, the guy who tried to assassinate President Trump- Oh, yeah ... the judge then went and said, "I am so sorry that, you know, you're not being treated nicely. You have a, a, a room without a window." This is just, it's mean.
Joe Rogan· Host1:12
Oh, see, I don't think that that's suicidal empathy at all. I think that's signaling. I, I think that's signaling that he wishes that that man was successful and that he supports his endeavor.
Gad Saad· Guest1:23
Fair enough. The second example, uh, actually today, uh, Dave Rubin shared it with me.