The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - June 09, 2025


Visiting Iceland & England, Richard Dawkins, David Deutsch, & Free Palestine! (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_839)

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Free Palestine
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Gad Saad
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Richard Dawkins Michael Shermer David Deutsch Kevin McCaffrey Eric Kaufman Alex Bhatia Ungar Sargon Joseph Robertson Gulli Jansson Charles Downs Matt Goodwin James Tooley Batya Argon Goodlooks Harper Trump
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Scott Saad's thoughts on his trip to Europe and his experiences in Reykjavik, Iceland, London, and the House of Lords. He also talks about his experience at the Center for Humanitarian Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and at the Centre for Social Thought at the University of Buckingham.

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00:00:00.720 Hi everybody.
00:00:01.240 This is Scott Saad, just returned from a incredibly jam packed trip to Europe.
00:00:09.300 And so I thought I would share some of my thoughts and, uh, you know,
00:00:14.140 remarks and comments from the trip.
00:00:16.560 Uh, first, uh, I was accompanied by the way, uh, by my wife.
00:00:22.380 Uh, so that was really nice.
00:00:23.900 Uh, the first leg of our eight day trip was to Reykjavik, Iceland.
00:00:31.620 It was a trip that was organized by a phenomenal host with whom we've become
00:00:36.920 good friends with him and his fiancee.
00:00:39.980 His name is Gulli Jansson.
00:00:42.260 Uh, he invited me to give a talk on the parasitic mind and suicidal
00:00:47.720 empathy at, uh, Harper, which is this beautiful venue.
00:00:52.340 Right on the waterfront in Reykjavik, uh, there were some security concerns.
00:00:58.440 And so it was all taken care of by my host.
00:01:01.640 Uh, I had all these strapping young Icelandic guys making sure that, uh, 1.00
00:01:08.060 nothing untoward happened to Dr.
00:01:11.040 Goodlooks.
00:01:11.720 Uh, the event was wonderful.
00:01:14.180 Big turnout sold out, uh, had a great time.
00:01:17.140 Um, I did notice, uh, that there were several places where, uh, the people from
00:01:24.220 Reykjavik apparently made it clear that they support the Gazans against the nasty 0.60
00:01:30.820 Zionist occupiers.
00:01:32.940 There was a whole mural with all kinds of stuff.
00:01:35.480 But even I went into a restaurant where there were murals that were apparently, uh, painted
00:01:42.080 by a famous Icelandic artist, you know, recounting sort of the, you know, feminist movements in
00:01:51.080 Iceland.
00:01:51.680 So it's supposed to be a historical thing, but each of those, uh, paintings had Palestinian
00:01:59.000 iconography, whether it be the Palestinian flag or the Kefiya.
00:02:03.840 Uh, and so I wasn't aware that the history of Icelandic feminism went right through the 0.99
00:02:11.720 Gazan, uh, homeland.
00:02:15.900 But that shows you what happens to a mind that is parasitized.
00:02:19.360 Uh, so there was a lot of that everywhere, you know, free Gaza, Gaza, free Palestine, and 0.79
00:02:25.240 so on and so forth.
00:02:26.340 Uh, but otherwise the trip was fantastic.
00:02:28.580 We went to the Blue Lagoon, the Sky Lagoon, uh, had wonderful, uh, dinner event.
00:02:36.880 I mean, it was really all wonderful.
00:02:38.700 After, uh, Reykjavik, we then flew to London and on the first day in London, um, I was invited
00:02:50.360 to the House of Lords by a Lord in the House of Lords.
00:02:54.540 Uh, we spent three hours with him and his wife, went to, uh, lunch in the, you know,
00:03:00.300 House of Lords, uh, section.
00:03:02.540 But as we made our way to go to the entrance of the House of Lords, there were thousands
00:03:09.480 and thousands of protesters, you know, global intifada, free, free Palestine from the river
00:03:17.380 to the sea and so on.
00:03:18.420 So you might imagine I'm trying to make my way to the House of Lords where, when there
00:03:24.180 are, you know, thousands of people with keffiyeh.
00:03:26.740 So it was very, very heartwarming to see that the noble people of London are rightfully supporting
00:03:34.240 the Gazans against the, you know, those genocidal Jews. 1.00
00:03:38.480 So that was really nice.
00:03:39.340 And I had to have police escort to enter the House of Lords in Britain.
00:03:44.000 So that was really nice.
00:03:45.380 Uh, then I had an event, uh, that evening in London, uh, with, uh, uh, Batya Argon, I
00:03:56.600 can't remember the, hold on, let me just look for the exact name.
00:03:59.940 I never, oh, Batya Angar Sargon. 0.65
00:04:02.680 And then, uh, Matt Goodwin and, uh, Eric Kaufman, who is a professor at University of Buckingham,
00:04:11.540 which I'll talk about in a second.
00:04:12.820 And he organized that event, great event, great turnout.
00:04:16.660 Uh, you know, I give a lecture there, then fielded some questions and so on.
00:04:21.040 And then from London, we drove to Buckingham, which is about an hour and something away from
00:04:28.000 London at the University of Buckingham, where there was a three-day conference, Thursday,
00:04:33.680 Friday, and Saturday morning.
00:04:35.760 I think till about around noon, uh, organized by Eric Kaufman at the University of Buckingham.
00:04:43.360 He founded the Center for Heterodox Social Science.
00:04:47.980 And the conference was about, you know, heterodox social science.
00:04:52.280 And so I spoke at that, uh, conference, uh, and then had a chance to meet the vice chancellor,
00:04:59.920 James Tooley, lovely guy, very affable, very warm.
00:05:05.340 It was great to meet him.
00:05:06.760 Um, and, you know, the University of Buckingham is a small university, but they really are trying
00:05:13.340 to set up sort of a hub, uh, where, you know, heterodox thinkers, you know, could be, could,
00:05:21.960 you know, could have a place where they could interact.
00:05:24.080 So they're trying to create a place where you could sort of do anti-woke social science,
00:05:30.040 study anti-woke issues.
00:05:32.460 All of this organized and spearheaded by Professor Eric Kaufman, who's just absolutely lovely guy.
00:05:38.960 I had a chance to meet all sorts of other people who helped, uh, Joseph Robertson, uh, Charlie
00:05:46.700 Downs.
00:05:47.320 I'm going off the top of my mind, uh, their names.
00:05:49.880 I hope I'm not getting any names wrong.
00:05:51.980 Then had a chance to meet all sorts of new people who, you know, came up to me at the
00:05:55.900 conference, uh, Kevin, I think it's McCaffrey.
00:05:59.600 Let me make sure that I don't, uh, misstate his name.
00:06:04.500 Where is he?
00:06:05.700 Hold on a second.
00:06:06.840 Yeah, Kevin McCaffrey, who is the editor of Theory and Society.
00:06:11.120 We had a very long, uh, discussion.
00:06:13.380 He is trying to, uh, incorporate Darwinian theory within sociology.
00:06:18.440 And so we had a very, very, uh, interesting conversation.
00:06:23.340 Uh, all kinds of other people that I met that were just lovely, truly.
00:06:27.580 It was just a wonderful experience to be able to immerse yourself within a gathering of
00:06:35.000 like-minded people where you're not going to be, uh, ostracized from the cool kids table
00:06:41.420 because, you know, you said something nice about Trump or you, you actually believe that
00:06:45.960 men don't menstruate and so on. 0.99
00:06:47.980 Um, so the amount of, uh, love and support and gratitude that I received was absolutely,
00:06:54.900 uh, you know, invigorating.
00:06:57.840 And so that's it.
00:06:59.280 Began with Reykjavik, went on to, uh, London, went on to Buckingham.
00:07:05.220 Um, oh, and then, uh, the last day prior to returning yesterday to Montreal, we made our
00:07:11.820 way to Oxford.
00:07:13.180 How could I forget this?
00:07:14.800 Visited Oxford University, um, and met up with Richard Dawkins at his home.
00:07:23.500 Uh, this was facilitated by the incredible, one of the absolute loveliest and sharpest guys
00:07:30.120 you can ever hope to interact with, Michael Shermer, who was filming a documentary for
00:07:35.820 his forthcoming book, Truth.
00:07:39.120 And he actually filmed me in this beautiful, austere church for the book.
00:07:43.720 He, he asked a few people, uh, to be in the documentary, uh, Richard Dawkins, David Deutsch,
00:07:50.280 myself.
00:07:51.100 And so I filmed, uh, uh, part of a documentary for, uh, Michael Shermer in Buckingham.
00:07:59.500 Um, uh, and also, uh, accepted to do an interview with Spike magazine.
00:08:06.360 But anyways, uh, so we made our way to Oxford, hung out with Richard Dawkins, uh, and also
00:08:13.140 Richard's, uh, not Richard's, um, Michael Shermer's assistant, Alex, who's another absolutely
00:08:18.640 lovely guy.
00:08:20.000 Uh, then after Richard Dawkins, we made our way to a park, uh, because Richard, um, Michael
00:08:27.200 was going to film David Deutsch.
00:08:28.880 Now, David Deutsch and I have become very friendly.
00:08:31.260 He's been on my show a few times.
00:08:33.600 One of the absolute sharpest guys that you could ever hope to talk to.
00:08:36.800 And just a, just a lovely, pure human being.
00:08:40.100 Uh, so we finally met in person, even though we had, uh, you know, he'd been on my show a
00:08:44.840 few times.
00:08:45.320 And because it was raining and we were going to film outside, uh, Richard, I keep saying
00:08:52.020 Richard, Michael and, uh, the filmmaker, the, the, the gentleman who's taking care of the
00:08:57.460 filming, Alex decided that they couldn't, you know, set up the, the equipment to film.
00:09:03.260 So what we ended up instead doing, we just stood there at the park for maybe two plus
00:09:08.040 hours.
00:09:09.360 We meaning David Deutsch, Michael Shermer, and myself just chatting.
00:09:15.840 And Alex would walk around with the cell phone and, you know, filmed the entire conversation,
00:09:22.980 which was absolutely unbelievable.
00:09:25.740 I mean, we, I mean, very, very quickly, we just got into really, really deep and profound
00:09:31.240 and meaningful issues and just went at it.
00:09:34.220 It was absolutely beautiful.
00:09:35.640 So I, my understanding is that they will be releasing both probably the entirety of our
00:09:41.160 conversation, but also many different clips and you really don't want to miss it.
00:09:45.080 So met Richard Dawkins, met David Deutsch, went to Oxford, met the vice chancellor of University
00:09:55.260 of Buckingham, visited University of Buckingham, went to the House of Lords, gave a talk at London,
00:10:00.200 gave a talk at University of Buckingham, gave a talk in Iceland.
00:10:03.660 So it was absolutely amazing.
00:10:05.700 I had to cancel my appearance at this big festival in Wales just because it, it just didn't work
00:10:11.720 out in terms of scheduling.
00:10:13.260 Tomorrow I head off for three more engagements in the United States and then back to Montreal,
00:10:20.400 buckle down and try to get some serious headway with suicidal empathy.
00:10:28.340 So there you have it, folks, a lot of great stuff happening.
00:10:31.800 I hope to meet some of you at some future event.
00:10:35.500 Thank you for all the love and support.
00:10:37.020 I'll talk to you soon.
00:10:37.680 Cheers, everybody.