The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - September 01, 2025


Death of the West - Heroic Pat Tillman vs the Cowardly Antiquarian Bookseller (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_867)


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11 minutes

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1,700

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95

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Misogyny

1

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Pat Tillman walks away from a lucrative career in the NFL to serve his country. Joe Rogan cancels an interview with Kamala Harris because he doesn t want to talk about politics. And a bookseller refuses to talk to me about books.

Transcript

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00:00:00.360 Hi everybody, this is God Sad for the Sad Truth. I hope that you are all having a good Labor Day Monday.
00:00:07.700 I wanted to discuss with you an anecdote that transpired yesterday and demonstrate how it is a perfect exemplar
00:00:19.980 of why the West is finding itself in the difficult position that it's in.
00:00:27.540 Some of you might remember that I've long said that the seven deadly sins should have another sin added to them.
00:00:35.960 Cowardice. Because again, as the old adage, I believe it was Edmund Burke who said it, the Scottish Philosopher,
00:00:44.000 you know, all that needs to happen for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing.
00:00:49.920 I'm paraphrasing. So let me first begin by mentioning Pat Tillman.
00:00:56.620 Do you know who Pat Tillman is? Let me just pull out some of his details.
00:01:02.100 So Pat Tillman was an NFL star who in 2001, after the 9-11 attacks happened,
00:01:12.120 was offered a contract then to continue playing for $3.6 million, which is $6 million in 2024.
00:01:19.480 And he walked away from his entire NFL career because he wanted to sign up to go and fight
00:01:31.360 against those who had done what they did on 9-11.
00:01:36.720 So this is a guy who's living the luxurious life.
00:01:41.260 He's living the life of a star athlete.
00:01:43.540 He's a star in the NFL.
00:01:45.360 He's making millions of dollars.
00:01:47.420 He says, F it.
00:01:49.140 I'm walking away from all that because the calling to go and serve in the military
00:01:57.160 is greater than any pecuniary desires that I might have.
00:02:03.500 That's why he's Pat Tillman.
00:02:05.480 Now, I want to contrast this with something that happened yesterday.
00:02:09.840 So I'm a huge, as you know, many of you know, a huge book file.
00:02:16.740 I love books.
00:02:17.620 I collect books.
00:02:18.940 I love antiquarian books.
00:02:20.760 And so I reached out to an antiquarian bookseller.
00:02:26.040 I had never communicated with him in the past, but I became aware of his book store and of
00:02:34.720 his, you know, social media platforms where he talks about all sorts of amazing books.
00:02:39.820 And I thought, you know what?
00:02:40.960 I just want to geek out.
00:02:42.120 I want to invite this gentleman on my show and just talk books.
00:02:46.380 So there's going to be no discussion of politics, no discussion of anything other than books.
00:02:51.400 So he replied to me and I found it strange that he said, you know, I'd be happy to come
00:02:56.140 on just to discuss books.
00:02:57.720 That already is a red flag because any dignified human being should be willing to talk about
00:03:04.020 things beyond the exact thing that I'm willing to talk about.
00:03:08.860 Leave that kind of stuff to Kamala Harris, who tried to get Joe Rogan to say, this is
00:03:14.900 what we will talk about if I come on your show.
00:03:17.720 And then Joe said, I think if I got the story right, there is no scripts on my show.
00:03:23.600 You come and we just chat, which of course Kamala Harris couldn't pull off. 0.98
00:03:28.620 But he graciously agreed to come on the show and I was excited to have a wonderful conversation
00:03:35.440 with him.
00:03:36.160 Yesterday I received an email from him where I'm not going to read the email out of the
00:03:41.320 quorum because it was a private email, although he certainly deserves to be named and shamed.
00:03:46.880 And he basically said, well, you know, upon further reflection, you know, even though
00:03:53.800 we may only discuss books, I've built a very large TikTok following and, you know, basically
00:04:00.080 I don't want to lose my following by speaking to someone who is as political as you.
00:04:04.000 And I don't know which politics.
00:04:05.540 Is it because I hate Justin Trudeau?
00:04:08.240 Is it because I argue that Donald Trump is not the existential threat that all the hysterics
00:04:16.200 think that he is?
00:04:16.940 Is it because I am anti-Hamas? 0.79
00:04:20.420 I am pro-Israel being allowed to exist as the only Jewish nation in the world? 0.64
00:04:26.900 It could be many reasons why he thinks I'm political and dangerous.
00:04:29.940 But he said, you know, I don't want to come on.
00:04:33.060 I'm canceling my thing.
00:04:35.420 I know it must be disappointing for you.
00:04:38.680 Right.
00:04:39.740 How am I going to move on in my career now that some bookseller is no longer going to
00:04:45.220 speak to me?
00:04:45.780 So already that exhibits a level of self-importance and narcissism that's uncalled for.
00:04:53.160 But basically, F off political guy.
00:04:56.840 I don't want to talk to you because it might harm my following.
00:05:00.600 So I responded to him.
00:05:02.240 Let me just read you what I responded.
00:05:05.420 Here it is.
00:05:08.360 I'm not going to mention his name or anything.
00:05:10.060 So thank you for your email that we will not get a chance to have an informative and fun
00:05:14.360 conversation about books is disappointing, but not nearly as disappointing as your self-serving
00:05:20.040 cowardice.
00:05:21.360 I have been a professor for 32 years.
00:05:23.380 I've had to incur endless personal and professional costs because of my dogged defense of Western
00:05:28.660 liberties and freedoms.
00:05:29.700 I received countless death threats because a wide range of enemies of reason are unhappy
00:05:34.580 with my words and ideas, etc.
00:05:37.340 As a lover of books, I would have thought that you would be the first to appreciate that without
00:05:42.200 a committed defense of our freedoms and liberties, books would not exist.
00:05:47.640 Respectfully, GS for God's side.
00:05:50.420 By the way, just earlier that day or maybe the day before, Elon had put out a tweet, a lovely
00:06:00.800 tweet where he said, everyone should read Gad's books.
00:06:04.520 So Elon doesn't seem to be concerned with associating with a dangerous guy like me, but the bookseller
00:06:13.720 whom I'm only inviting on the show to simply discuss books.
00:06:18.920 By the way, I've got a pretty large platform.
00:06:21.720 I can promote your bookshop.
00:06:26.160 I can promote your incredible antiquarian book collection.
00:06:29.560 Maybe I can get some of my very influential and wealthy friends to take notice of your
00:06:35.940 work.
00:06:36.360 So even from a, you know, self-interest perspective, you would gain a lot more in not being a coward,
00:06:45.620 but no, he will not speak to me because he might lose his TikTok and Instagram following.
00:06:51.640 That's how the West is lost because he thinks that where he lives in a state, uh, close to
00:06:59.660 the West coast, he's protected from the things that I'm warning him about that I'm warning
00:07:04.760 the world about.
00:07:05.640 He thinks that he's protected because he's already a man in his sixties, maybe early seventies.
00:07:11.240 So he won't live long enough to worry about the things that many of us go out of our way
00:07:18.260 to try to defend because he won't be around.
00:07:22.020 F those grandchildren who might suffer under astoundingly brutal ideologies.
00:07:29.380 If they have a greater incursion within the West, what he cares about is that he's got a big
00:07:36.140 TikTok following.
00:07:37.760 Okay.
00:07:38.180 Let me tell you another very quick story.
00:07:40.720 A very, very well-known scientist whom I would consider to be a guy that I greatly admire.
00:07:51.280 I invited him on my show.
00:07:53.260 I mean, our intellectual and scientific complicity couldn't be more overlapping.
00:07:59.060 It's basically we, we, we support and defend all of the things, uh, in science and evolutionary
00:08:07.220 theory that one can hope to have in terms of complicity.
00:08:11.780 He told a fellow mutual friend that, you know, he's not going to accept the invitation
00:08:20.180 to come on my show.
00:08:21.460 Even though, by the way, I also said to him that we would only discuss scientific matters
00:08:26.640 because the reason why he wouldn't come on the show is because he had been warned by some
00:08:30.980 people that I might be rather favorably disposed to Trump.
00:08:36.540 So a true intellectual hero, a true scientific hero, a man who has helped popularize scientific
00:08:46.760 reasoning, evolutionary theory is unwilling to sit down with me because he was warned that
00:08:55.380 I don't have Trump derangement syndrome.
00:08:59.380 Did you hear that?
00:09:00.380 And now I'm going to finally read you a, and I have permission to even, uh, mention who
00:09:08.320 his name is because he, he literally wrote it.
00:09:10.760 So this is from a fan.
00:09:12.940 And by the way, I receive innumerable ones like this, but because I want to contextualize
00:09:20.280 this person to the antiquarian bookseller, dear professor sad.
00:09:25.600 So the, the subject is thank you for your courage and clarity.
00:09:28.660 Dear professor sad.
00:09:30.200 I want to thank you, not just for your scholarship, but for your moral clarity and courage at a
00:09:35.320 time when so many remain silent, ahem, antiquarian bookseller.
00:09:40.620 In particular, your unapologetic defense of Israel has meant a great deal to me.
00:09:46.320 While much of the world has either excused or rationalized the barbarism of October 7th, you have spoken with the same precision and fearlessness that define your broader work on parasitic ideas.
00:09:57.180 What I find so powerful about your voice is that you don't just critique, you expose, you strip away the pretenses of those who dress up their hatred of Israel in the language of justice or decolonization, showing it for what it is, an ancient venom wearing modern clothes.
00:10:15.580 You call it parasitic hatred because that's exactly what it is, a mind virus that feeds on delusion and moral cowardice.
00:10:24.160 Few people today have both the intellectual tools and the moral backbone to diagnose this infection so plainly.
00:10:32.700 In an era when even many Jews feel compelled to apologize for their existence or hedge their defense of Israel, your willingness to stand firm with humor, clarity, and an unflinching commitment to truth has been inspiring.
00:10:48.220 For me, your voice is a reminder that reason and courage still have defenders even when the cultural tide runs the other way.
00:10:58.140 Thank you for giving us that voice and for reminding us that to defend Israel is not merely a political act but a civilizational necessity.
00:11:07.660 And if you ever decide to read this note aloud on the sad truth, I would be honored if you include my name, Jimmy Bitton.
00:11:17.540 So, with gratitude and admiration.
00:11:22.160 Moral of the story, be like Pat Tillman, be like Jimmy Bitton, don't be like the antiquarian bookseller or the highbrow scientist that refused to sit down with me for a chat.
00:11:38.680 Take care, everybody.