The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - September 14, 2025


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Hosted by
Gad Saad
Mentioned
Charlie Kirk Erica Turning Point Elon Musk Sophia
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Episode Stats


Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

159.21

Word count

549

Sentence count

41

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

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Summary

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Erica and Charlie Kirk were a loving, devoted, loving couple who were on their way to start a new life together when they were murdered in front of their own home in their own driveway. Their love was a force to be reckoned with, and in the wake of their tragic loss, their love and devotion to one another will live on in their memory forever.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Now bring in visiting scholar at Ole Miss, Gad said.
00:00:03.320 Professor, you heard Erica speak so well about good versus evil
00:00:08.420 and a battle between them that needs to be waged,
00:00:14.320 not physically, not violently, but through ideas and through passion
00:00:19.840 and through the Holy Spirit.
00:00:23.460 What are we up against here?
00:00:25.080 Well, speaking of evil versus goodness, I was astonished in seeing her poison grace.
00:00:34.200 It would be perfectly reasonable from an evolutionary perspective
00:00:37.320 to feel rancor, vengefulness, vindictiveness,
00:00:42.460 and yet 48 hours after Charlie's murder, she's able to come address the nation
00:00:48.420 with nothing but hope and love.
00:00:50.560 And to the extent that she's able to do what seems to me like a superhuman ability,
00:00:55.980 it largely comes from her faith.
00:00:58.940 But what I wanted to do, perhaps to sort of end the show on a positive and good note,
00:01:03.440 take us into the weekend to the extent that we can do such a thing in such a tragic case.
00:01:08.140 You know, teenagers are difficult to get their attention.
00:01:11.420 I have a 16-year-old teenage daughter who it's hard to wrestle her away from her iPhone and so on.
00:01:18.560 And I've spoken to a lot of, I have a lot of famous and powerful and impressive friends.
00:01:24.740 One of the only ones that she said very shyly,
00:01:28.400 and, hey, Daddy, do you think that when you talk today to Charlie Kirk on a show,
00:01:33.200 you could introduce me to him?
00:01:35.040 That's it.
00:01:35.780 That says it all.
00:01:37.160 She didn't ask me that when I was going to chat with Elon Musk.
00:01:41.120 She didn't ask me that when I've got a litany of famous professors who want to talk to me.
00:01:45.380 But when Charlie Kirk was going to chat with me, she turned into, you know, a little fangirl. 0.71
00:01:51.260 That shows you the power of what Charlie did.
00:01:54.220 And I think Turning Point is in good hands based on what I just saw from Erica.
00:01:59.060 The future looks bright.
00:02:00.340 Yeah, my 13-year-old daughter, Sophia.
00:02:03.540 She's never asked me to have a picture with anybody.
00:02:07.520 You know who it was?
00:02:08.560 Charlie Kirk.
00:02:09.460 There you go.
00:02:10.800 She couldn't believe that I knew Charlie Kirk.
00:02:15.040 And that's a wonderful thing.
00:02:17.820 You can see that his spirit is living on through Erica.
00:02:23.520 And she will be a force of nature for a long time to come.
00:02:31.700 So, indeed, and, you know, in evolutionary theory, there's this principle of birds of a feather flock together for a happy marriage.
00:02:40.100 You want people to assort together that have similar values and so on.
00:02:44.940 Boy, I've never seen it more in practice than now seeing Erica, because I already knew Charlie well, and I knew that he was a gem.
00:02:52.120 But now seeing Erica, I get why they chose each other.
00:02:55.500 Yeah, and they would have been the perfect power couple, perhaps president and first lady. 0.67
00:03:01.000 But things did not work out that way.
00:03:04.260 And she did say that if he if he ever was going to run for office, his top priority would be to revive the American family.
00:03:12.620 And in a beautiful and strange way, his assassination may revive the American family.
00:03:21.520 And that is something we can look forward to.
00:03:23.660 Gad said, thank you so much for joining us.
00:03:26.080 Thank you.
00:03:26.640 Cheers.
00:03:26.840 Cheers.