Hi everybody, this is Gadsad. As you know, if you follow any of my work, I'm someone who is

fully steeped in academia. That's all I ever wanted to do was to be a professor and a soccer player.

And so, of course, education is central to my life's mission. Of course, I think that everyone should study as far

and as long as they possibly can. In the book on happiness, I discuss the case, two cases where

people decided to go on and study very late in life. One example is of a

gentleman who decided to pursue his undergrad well into his 60s, then his master's into his 70s and

I think 80s and then completed his PhD in his early 90s. This is someone who graduated with his PhD

at Concordia University, my home university. And then the other gentleman who's been on my show,

Mephrid Steiner, if I remember correctly his name, he was a medical doctor who picked up a PhD in 1967 in biochemistry, I believe, while training to be a hematologist.

But his first love was always physics.

So once he retired from medicine, he went back, studied physics and finished his second PhD,

having already been a PhD and an MD in physics at 89, and he came on my show. So what I'm about to say is certainly not in any way

an indictment on formal education in the pursuit of a PhD and so on. Of course, I support that and, you know, knowledge requires

people to be highly educated. But I'm saying all this in the context of having listened while

driving to Ottawa with my family two days ago. I was listening to maybe the first 45 minutes of the chat between Dave Smith,

whom I recently became familiar with and Douglas Murray, who's been on my show in the past and is

coming back, I think, on April 21st. And the first, I guess the time that I was listening, they hadn't really gotten into any

content. They were really addressing the matter that, you know, Douglas picked up about, you know,

why is it that you've got all these, you know, comedians and, you know, podcast guys speaking about

things that they know very little about.

And I understand the reflex.

And of course, I'm a big supporter and appreciator of Douglas Murray's work.

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