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


Sex and Marriage in the United States - With Jesse Watters (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_1062)

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Gad Saad
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Mother Earth Gadsad Uncle Bob Suicidal Empathy Viktor Orban Gad Set Jesse
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Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

168.04

Word count

848

Sentence count

54


Transcript

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00:00:00.080 Gadsad, visiting professor at Ole Miss and author of Suicidal Empathy, one of my favorites.
00:00:06.060 All right, Gadsad, what explains this phenomenon of women not wanting to have kids and get married?
00:00:13.240 Well, I describe all this in Suicidal Empathy, Jesse, right?
00:00:16.980 If you care so much about Mother Earth and if you think that having more children will increase our collective footprint,
00:00:25.220 then you don't want to be a rapist of Mother Earth.
00:00:27.680 So shut down your reproductive interests in order to be empathetic to Mother Earth.
00:00:32.940 Now, that's quite extraordinary because we're a bi-parental, sexually reproducing species.
00:00:38.380 Life is a two-step game.
00:00:40.060 First, I need to survive.
00:00:41.780 Then I need to propagate my genes.
00:00:44.000 But the Democrats tell us that be empathetic.
00:00:47.160 Stop being a sexual being.
00:00:49.360 Because single childless women vote overwhelmingly Democrat.
00:00:53.660 What about the women who say they just don't want to be pregnant?
00:00:58.420 They don't want to have to care for somebody else.
00:01:01.140 They don't want that other person sucking up their money and attention.
00:01:05.840 Right. Look, there are individual differences on anything, right?
00:01:09.260 I mean, we are a sexually reproducing species, even though your Uncle Bob only sleeps with men.
00:01:15.020 Both of these statements can hold true.
00:01:17.100 So if you know about my Uncle Bob, your assistant told me about it.
00:01:22.500 But anyways, the idea is that it's perfectly natural for some people to choose not to get married and have children,
00:01:30.400 but to promulgate this as a moral, enlightened position whereby you convince generations of women
00:01:38.660 that you will get no purpose and meaning by being a mother is probably not a good idea for a sexually reproducing species.
00:01:45.980 What happens to the civilization?
00:01:48.620 You look at Detroit, 13 percent of kids have like nothing at home.
00:01:53.920 They have no mom, no dad. It's just nothing.
00:01:55.960 Well, I mean, or that's the opposite. What is that?
00:02:00.520 Look, as you I think you alluded to in your in your intro, there is a replacement rate to in order for civilization to, you know, to have more people born than dead.
00:02:12.140 I think for Western countries, it's around 2.17 and we are greatly failing at that.
00:02:17.240 demography is ultimately destiny. If we don't spend time producing kids, someone else who may
00:02:23.660 not share our values will outbreed us. That won't be a good outcome for our grandchildren.
00:02:28.700 So it's a breeding competition. And when you have open borders, that's problematic.
00:02:33.520 Does Gadsad, our most enlightened guest, have any ideas on how to turn this all around?
00:02:40.940 well I would tell you that look yesterday it was my birthday and I have many accolades in my life
00:02:49.200 none of which are remotely as important to me as whatever my wife and children wrote in my
00:02:57.120 birthday card that gave me more a sense of pride to be able to raise teenagers who actually wish
00:03:04.460 to hang around me who view me as someone who is a positive force is more important than hearing
00:03:09.880 from a Stanford colleague who says I'm brilliant. So if you wish to have a direct pathway to purpose
00:03:15.480 and meaning, find a special person and produce lots of babies. Okay. How do we encourage that?
00:03:22.100 I know people are inspired by your beautifully eloquent words, but can the government do
00:03:29.740 anything about this? Should the government be doing something about this? Yeah, that's a great
00:03:34.040 question. So if you remember, Viktor Orban, the previous prime minister of Hungary, had a tax
00:03:41.320 policy whereby if women produced, I may get some of the numbers wrong, but I think if you produced
00:03:46.600 four kids, you were free of income tax forever. Now, we can debate whether that's a good policy
00:03:53.140 or not, but it's a direct link between how much money you take home at the end of the day and
00:03:58.820 your breeding potential. So maybe we should be implementing something similar to this in the
00:04:02.860 united states okay maybe they have just a bunch of sperm donors in the united states follow me
00:04:07.500 along here all right it's like the best and the brightest they're sperm domers best athletes best
00:04:11.820 thinkers best innovators and then me basically yeah you you could do a whole state and then you
00:04:18.460 just test tube the heck out of it and and then you have women carry it you know you have women
00:04:23.840 carry these babies boom baby boom yeah it's a little artificial but you know what we're trying
00:04:30.040 to save the country?
00:04:33.640 Look, that's maybe a good idea
00:04:36.040 in some science fiction movie,
00:04:37.420 but one of the reasons why nature
00:04:38.980 endowed us with the possibility
00:04:41.220 to have sex be pleasurable
00:04:43.060 is precisely because you want it
00:04:45.100 to be an approach behavior.
00:04:46.600 What's the fun of producing kids
00:04:48.480 if you don't go through the mating ritual?
00:04:50.880 Let's keep the mating ritual
00:04:52.060 as part of our breeding program.
00:04:53.760 All right, I stand corrected.
00:04:54.700 Everybody go out and get drunk
00:04:56.100 and snuggle up to somebody at the bar.
00:04:59.420 Gad Set, great to talk to you as always.
00:05:01.040 Thank you.
00:05:01.680 You too, sir.
00:05:02.420 Thank you.