The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - January 15, 2026


Chatting with My Daughter About Musical Preferences (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_956)

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Gad Saad
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Barry White Minnie Ripperton George Michael
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10 minutes

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184.51

Word count

1,974

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Harmful content

Misogyny

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Summary

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In this episode, my daughter and I discuss our favourite songs from Fleetwood Mac, Naked Eyes, Out of Touch by hollow notes and Fleetwood mac, and the songs from when we were growing up listening to them.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 hey love how are you i'm good how are you i'm very excited to be doing this with you
00:00:04.700 are you happy because of the pre-sale of your book i'm very excited oh thank you love yes
00:00:09.720 for those of you who don't know uh pre-sale option or pre-order option uh went live yesterday with
00:00:17.840 also the uh uh reveal of my book cover and so far it's doing incredibly well thanks for asking
00:00:25.140 i'm so excited for it thank you um so what i thought we would do today is we could talk about
00:00:30.040 our well i know that you have your list of your top five favorite songs but i can't narrow it down
00:00:36.000 to five so instead of picking my favorite i thought i would just look at my spotify most streams and we
00:00:41.840 could talk about my top five do you are you into that that'll be perfect let's see what my daughter 0.95
00:00:47.300 has been listening to okay so the first one that i have here is promises promises by naked eyes
00:00:52.820 um i know you know that one because you definitely introduced me to it but um yeah so i know we
00:01:00.060 used to listen to it a lot when i was younger and i kind of forgot about it and i was studying at
00:01:04.680 starbucks and i heard it again and i was like oh my god and now it's obviously number one so yeah wow
00:01:10.800 that's your number one most stream i think it's for the past six months right six months yeah so
00:01:15.040 promises promises i think it's a 1983 song i remember that i would listen to it endlessly
00:01:22.680 while doing my 400 sit-ups this was at a time when uh i had the eight pack no longer true and so
00:01:32.260 yeah that's an amazing song i'm delighted to see that it's on your number one uh replacement okay so
00:01:38.700 my second one is out of touch by hollow notes wow that's a big one it's one of my favorites for sure
00:01:45.400 um it reminds me mostly of our time in california our summers and it just kind of makes me reminisce
00:01:51.860 a little but uh yeah i've been really into hollow notes recently and wow so hollow notes uh i saw them
00:01:59.320 in concert uh i think it was maybe 1984 i should probably check if they had come to montreal in 1984
00:02:07.220 i think it's around then they're great and that they're from philadelphia they're known as they're
00:02:13.200 part of the genre called blue-eyed soul because it's white guys who are singing soulful music
00:02:19.660 the first song that i knew of hollow notes was just around the time when we first moved
00:02:25.120 from lebanon to montreal there was a very very soulful song called sarah smile that was my first
00:02:31.420 exposure to them yeah another great one boy i'm glad to see that there's some intergenerational
00:02:36.820 influence here yeah and i'm pretty sure that at one point we had tracked down the concert and i think
00:02:42.280 we did find that it was maybe 1984 or we had at least just found that it was it had happened around
00:02:47.780 then perfect yeah okay so my next one is a fleetwood mac song but not one of the ones that we usually
00:02:53.640 listen to it's more of a like i guess you could say tiktokified one so it's silver springs and i know
00:03:00.440 we used to we listen to more like dreams and um everywhere i think it is but this one i just i hear
00:03:06.540 it a lot online and i just really liked it and yeah so wow i mean i couldn't be more proud of my
00:03:16.260 daughter we got naked eyes we got daryl hall and john oats now we have fleetwood mac goes back for me
00:03:22.460 to about i was way younger than you are now probably maybe i don't know 12 13 just after
00:03:29.480 the mid 70s where they really were big so yeah i have only great memories of fleetwood mac great choice
00:03:36.080 so then we have another fleetwood wow they made it twice they made it twice um so we have i might
00:03:41.920 pronounce this wrong but i think it's rhiannon i think that sounds about right okay yeah so obviously
00:03:47.340 by fleetwood mac i had played this for you i thought i was introducing you to something new
00:03:52.560 but i was very wrong i played it in the car when we were going to try our crispy shawarma
00:03:56.940 and you i remember you had a like a reaction from just remembering the song from when you were younger
00:04:02.440 and so that's my number four amazing fleetwood mac okay and then i think your next one i'm not
00:04:09.100 gonna say what it is you you'll you'll you'll introduce it but this is the only one out of your top
00:04:13.940 five that's not coming from your father yeah wow take it away so this one is a drake and central sea
00:04:21.160 song it's called which one i think it's from this summer and i know that you're not too crazy over
00:04:28.080 central sea or because i don't like my daughter being uh into some guy okay yeah well anyways i
00:04:35.220 definitely have i like other songs from both of them more i don't know why it's number five but you know
00:04:40.840 it's there so it shows a bit of the more current style rather than the music that i've kind of the
00:04:46.500 music taste i've gotten from you over the my years of life wow so i guess if we were to sort of
00:04:54.420 glean a lesson from this number one would be it's not just our genes that propagate and that you are
00:05:01.680 you're on average sharing half of my genes mommy shares the other half but in this case we also have 1.00
00:05:08.600 another form of propagation and that is intergenerational musical influence so for sure
00:05:14.380 thank you for having listened to all those songs i feel even that much more bonded to you if we keep
00:05:19.420 going down the list there are even more songs that are just some really really good some really good
00:05:23.860 ones but we can't make this too long all right anyways your turn what are your top five so in my
00:05:29.360 case actually in a sense i was already locked and loaded to to answer this because i appeared on a
00:05:35.100 show several years ago by a the the gentleman who hosts the show invites you know various public
00:05:43.240 figures and the whole point of the show is for them to list their five favorite songs of all time and
00:05:48.920 potentially why yeah and so my top five and there's a story behind them each one if you don't mind me
00:05:55.960 sharing uh and then there are no particular order they're all amazing so minnie riperton who is a 1.00
00:06:05.100 very very famous kind of mythical soul singer she's the original singer who could who could hit what's
00:06:13.380 called the whistle range which subsequently mariah carey can do but but minnie riperton is the standard 0.99
00:06:21.380 uh she had a song called loving you in 1975 uh which is an amazing song beautiful song but it has a
00:06:30.520 particular memory for me because that fall is when we moved from lebanon to montreal and the first house
00:06:39.600 party that i went to in my days in the mid 70s the house parties would be held in someone's basement
00:06:46.100 and then of course so we're in grade five all the boys are afraid to speak to all the girls and
00:06:51.420 they're all sitting on separate corners and then minnie riperton song comes along and there i was my
00:06:57.880 first slow song to minnie riperton uh number two number two again in no particular order is careless
00:07:04.980 whisper it's been attributed to wham but it's really george michael uh i first heard the song you know
00:07:12.440 an episodic memory is when you exactly remember when you were when something happened you know for
00:07:18.100 example 9 11 you first heard about it that's an episode so that song was took my breath away so
00:07:24.500 much that i exactly remember where i was i was in israel at my uh aunt's house and i would go
00:07:30.880 running every night and i'd come back uh to to her house i was doing some sit-ups and push-ups and
00:07:37.800 whatever and i was listening to some british show in israel and then here comes this song and i start
00:07:44.200 hearing i'm like oh my god this is an unbelievable song so careless whisper then of course the maestro
00:07:50.820 barry white you turn my whole world around i mean any song by barry white uh we know yeah you know
00:07:56.860 kills you you you've grown up on him uh but that one is particularly great the next song is by my
00:08:03.480 favorite group from the what's called the philly sound a type of soul music the stylistics and the
00:08:11.040 song is called you are everything and incredibly i subsequently became friends with the lead singer
00:08:17.560 of the stylistics in large part because of my daughter's persistence persistence that i keep
00:08:23.060 calling him and hounding him until he he agreed to come on my show and then we became friends and hung
00:08:28.980 and so on and then the fifth song which is largely instrumental by a group called art of noise the
00:08:36.400 song is called moments in love and if you listen to it you'll understand why it's amazing so those
00:08:41.160 are my top five if if i'm not mistaken um moments in love is from when we were in curacao you first
00:08:47.620 heard it am i right oh no not at all no no and there are some instrumentals that we we heard
00:08:55.460 uh that are now in the in our listing collection that's from bahamas but moments in love is from
00:09:02.860 the 80s it was when you were only a twinkle in my eye i actually went to see them in concert and i think
00:09:09.940 1985 they came to montreal i didn't know that yeah so uh yeah no so they're way before uh curacao oops
00:09:17.820 anyways one thing i wanted to add please um when you said barry white all i could see when i hear his
00:09:23.920 name is when i was little you used to show me this one specific concert of him wearing an orange
00:09:29.480 suit and all i would say for like hours after show me the man in the orange yes so true i don't know
00:09:35.000 what concert that i'm gonna play it for you after okay yeah it's uh i think it's uh i finally found
00:09:43.140 someone to love or something like i can't remember the exact title maybe we'll put it in the maybe we
00:09:48.120 in the description yes it was in germany that concert and he was wearing not only an orange
00:09:55.720 suit it was an orange velvet suit oh yeah and you know my uh uh penchant for uh velvet suits so yeah
00:10:05.440 you're exactly right you say daddy play the orange guy yeah play the orange guy i think we might need
00:10:10.240 to get you an orange velvet suit i think you're right anyways thank you for joining me daddy i just
00:10:16.140 thought we should we always have these late night conversations about music and we go down these
00:10:21.000 little rabbit holes talking about different artists so i thought it would be a nice topic for us on this
00:10:26.280 i guess it's a wednesday well it's amazing thank you for including me in your project and uh based on
00:10:33.520 how natural you are there might be a future for you in the media slash podcasting world i get it from
00:10:38.580 somewhere maybe i love you i love you bye
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