The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - July 28, 2025


The Saad Truth about Happiness on Gutfeld! Two-Year Anniversary (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_853)

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Episode Stats


Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

166.88

Word count

1,239

Sentence count

144

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

sentences flagged

Hate speech

4

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Summary

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Gutfeld is joined by his daughter to discuss his new book, The Sad Truth About Happiness, The Dad's Sad Truth about Happiness, written by his own father, Dr. Andrew Gutfeld. They also talk about what it's like to be a Canadian immigrant in America, and what it was like growing up in the late 90s and early 00s in Canada.

Transcript

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00:00:00.240 Hi everybody, this is God Sad for the Sad Truth.
00:00:03.420 Two years ago this week, my latest book, The Sad Truth About Happiness, came out.
00:00:10.760 And as part of my media tour, I had appeared on Gutfeld the day after the book was released.
00:00:19.000 I've never uploaded my appearance on the show, and so here it is.
00:00:24.980 Many thanks to my daughter for having edited the episode to only include the segments wherein I feature.
00:00:35.180 Hope you enjoy it, and I hope that you think about maybe going out and ordering a copy of this book.
00:00:41.020 It's a really fun book filled with all sorts of practical prescriptions on how to live a happy life.
00:00:47.480 People call me the happy warrior. There's a reason for that.
00:00:50.360 Part of it is genetic. Part of it is the mindsets and the decisions that I've made in my life.
00:00:55.440 So I hope you find it interesting. Cheers.
00:00:56.860 All right! Here we go, you baby loud! 1.00
00:01:15.440 Happy Wednesday, everyone!
00:01:17.780 He's the best Canadian import since Billowing Clouds of Wildfire Smoke. 0.87
00:01:22.040 Professor and author of the book, The Sad Truth About Happiness, Dad's Sad.
00:01:31.740 Dad, congrats on the book.
00:01:34.900 Do we need to show the cover there?
00:01:36.560 The cover.
00:01:37.280 It looks like a man talking to a 12-year-old boy saying,
00:01:41.360 I'm going to be your new daddy.
00:01:42.800 Uh-oh.
00:01:44.720 That never works out.
00:01:46.140 I know. Your mother and I deeply love each other.
00:01:49.260 You can still see your original dad, but you answer to me now.
00:01:55.140 The Sad Truth About Happiness.
00:01:58.140 So good to hear it.
00:01:58.720 Isn't that weird that your name influences the things that you do?
00:02:02.020 Your name is Sad, but you end up writing a book about happiness.
00:02:05.180 That's very strange.
00:02:06.140 You know that in Arabic, Sad means happiness and felicity.
00:02:09.360 Oh, really?
00:02:09.960 Oh, yeah.
00:02:10.440 So I was meant to write this book.
00:02:12.320 Wow.
00:02:12.720 I know.
00:02:12.920 My name's Gutfeld, and I have so many stomach issues.
00:02:17.140 I'm not kidding.
00:02:18.520 My whole life is about intestinal distress.
00:02:22.540 It's amazing.
00:02:23.400 I can make it through a show.
00:02:24.740 What do you make it through?
00:02:25.580 Do you have a president?
00:02:27.020 You're in Canada, right?
00:02:28.160 You have a president.
00:02:29.180 I have a prime minister.
00:02:29.920 Prime minister.
00:02:30.440 Can we impeach him from America?
00:02:32.000 I'd like to impeach him from the universe.
00:02:35.620 I know.
00:02:37.400 Speaking of corruption, when we first moved from Lebanon to Canada, my dad was constantly
00:02:43.220 receiving a lot of parking tickets.
00:02:45.720 And so he went around trying to look for the cop that he could grease so that he would
00:02:50.740 never receive a parking ticket.
00:02:52.200 And when people explained to him that that's not how it's done in Canada, his answer was
00:02:56.080 what kind of barbaric country is Canada?
00:02:57.960 And so what happens is that corruption becomes an endemic part of the cultural values of a
00:03:04.180 society.
00:03:05.180 So it amazes me that now in the United States, I actually went through the corruption perceptions
00:03:10.720 index, which ranks every country.
00:03:13.280 U.S. is now number 24 out of 180.
00:03:16.120 If he gets a second term, they're going to head towards Somalia, which is number 180. 0.96
00:03:22.060 Yeah, exactly.
00:03:23.780 And who's number one?
00:03:26.060 You know, it's one of the Scandinavian countries.
00:03:28.740 Oh, they don't count, though.
00:03:30.340 Why is that?
00:03:31.100 Well, I mean, it's Scandinavia.
00:03:32.600 I mean, I don't even know what that is.
00:03:35.440 Scandinavia, is that one country or like five?
00:03:38.100 I mean, if you have to go as a group together to a party, that's kind of lame.
00:03:43.220 Anyway, I'll shut up about Scandinavia.
00:03:45.140 They don't hear the show here, Katz, or what do I care?
00:03:47.240 So, Professor, I feel like the shoplifting isn't the grossest thing about the video, but
00:03:53.780 what is going on here?
00:03:55.520 Do you think that there's something happening where it's becoming acceptable?
00:04:01.360 Yeah, so I think it's a conflation between deontological and consequentialist ethics.
00:04:05.600 Deontological is absolute statement.
00:04:08.040 Presumption of innocence is something that is inviolable, right?
00:04:11.280 You don't say, I believe in presumption of innocence, but not for Brett Kavanaugh.
00:04:15.040 If you say the but, then you're going to consequentialism.
00:04:17.800 So that's what's happening with this tolerance towards this stuff.
00:04:20.980 Instead of saying, we do not tolerate larceny, you're saying, well, if it's in California,
00:04:25.800 it's under 950, is it really a problem?
00:04:28.320 So by conflating consequentialism and deontological, you've got this kind of stuff.
00:04:32.080 Hmm, interesting.
00:04:33.300 At least 18 of those words I never heard before.
00:04:38.140 But you're the professor and you've got a beard, so what the hell?
00:04:43.600 And a book, by the way.
00:04:45.400 Uh, Tyra Stewart.
00:04:47.200 Deep fake sad.
00:04:48.720 You know, uh, why is this entertaining, Professor?
00:04:52.400 It's like, or just the colligula, right?
00:04:54.800 I mean, it's like the gladiators.
00:04:56.860 It's unbelievable.
00:04:57.380 When I can trust that kind of ethical breach that's happening on that show,
00:05:00.940 to say what we have to go through when we're trying to pass a study through the review board for ethics.
00:05:07.480 We can't ask people anymore the most banal questions because it might hurt someone's feelings.
00:05:12.180 So that's the level that we have to reach in terms of our ethical conduct.
00:05:16.300 And then you see this kind of stuff.
00:05:17.700 It's unbelievable, the difference in moral standards.
00:05:20.860 Yeah, I love it.
00:05:21.720 You know what's funny, though?
00:05:22.560 Reality shows all follow the same patterns, the same music, the same, like, boom, boom.
00:05:27.140 Is there just a band that does that music?
00:05:31.000 Yeah, I'm going to go see, you know, they do The Bachelor, they do, you know, Love Under the Boat, or whatever that is.
00:05:37.340 And, yeah, they're great.
00:05:38.560 Love Under the Boat, I think that's your own thing.
00:05:41.640 All right, Dr. Sack, tell me your animal story.
00:05:44.480 I've got, I love dogs.
00:05:46.320 Yes.
00:05:46.600 I love play.
00:05:48.120 One of the chapters in the book is about living life as a playground.
00:05:51.340 So here you go.
00:05:53.080 Put dogs and play, and you've got a beautiful video.
00:05:56.480 Where is this?
00:05:57.340 Do you know?
00:05:57.800 I don't.
00:05:58.620 You don't know?
00:05:59.600 But that's what, one of the reasons why we love dogs so much is because they share our obsessive love of play.
00:06:05.280 Look at this.
00:06:05.860 I mean, it's fantastic.
00:06:07.040 Typical, you have tenure.
00:06:08.180 You didn't even, you just mail this in.
00:06:09.800 You, um.
00:06:10.800 You're right, though.
00:06:14.720 So I just got a dog, and I realized that dogs, yeah, well, first one in, like, you know, since the accident.
00:06:21.260 But, uh, they play, they have to play with other dogs, don't they?
00:06:26.580 They do.
00:06:27.100 Because if they don't, they're missing the really part, they're social animals just like we are, and so we need to interact.
00:06:32.660 Yeah.
00:06:32.920 I mean, I try to play with my dog, but the officer says that's not play.
00:06:40.800 Welcome back, Cyrus.
00:06:45.200 Masks intrinsically scary.
00:06:48.840 Well, I was going to answer an evolutionary reason for why they're doing this.
00:06:52.040 You ready for this?
00:06:52.720 Sure.
00:06:53.100 So usually in Western societies, you have women engaging in sunbathing because they view it as an aesthetic cue, enhancing cue. 0.98
00:07:01.500 Right?
00:07:02.080 In the Far East, your skin color is associated with your social status.
00:07:06.880 The lighter I am, the higher status I am.
00:07:09.220 That's why you have a lot of whitening creams in the Far East. 1.00
00:07:12.040 So these kinds of masks are basically saying, I don't want to get dark because if I get dark, that implies that I am of lower status.
00:07:18.560 I need to stay as fair as possible.
00:07:21.060 Interesting.
00:07:21.800 I didn't see that angle, Cyrus.
00:07:24.340 Huh?
00:07:25.280 Me?