Thank you so much for joining us. Dr. Gad's

a man who needs no introduction. Obviously everybody already knows you.

I'm the popular one today for bringing you on to my podcast.

Everybody's like, oh my God, I'm so happy for you.

They don't realize that we're old chums,

that we're old friends.

We are old friends and it was so good to finally meet you in person. How long has it been now?

Maybe two years ago you came to Montreal? Yes, that's right. It has been gosh. It's been that long already,

but that was so great for you to make some time to come meet with me and to have that lovely cappuccino together.

That's right.

I was there yesterday.

You were missed. I was at exactly the same cafe that you and I went to just yesterday afternoon.

That's a great cafe.

So yeah, and even before that I came on to the sad truth. You're one of the very first people to invite me on actually

onto their platform and to give me a voice so I'm always going to be forever grateful for that.

My pleasure.

Yeah, and we, you know, we have an understanding you and I because you grew up in Lebanon of course until you're about 10 years old or so which I'm going to ask you about that in a bit more detail and then of course with my family being

Palestinian. We, you know, it's all a sham, right? Like it's all a sham, right?

Like it's all, we're very familiar with that part of the world and we have that connection and then of course we're both Canadian as well so both our backgrounds and our current grounds are very similar.

But tell us about growing up in Lebanon, what was that like? I've heard a few stories before and I'd love for you to share some with us here today.

Sure, well first, thank you so much for having me on. It's a real pleasure to be with you and to everybody else out there, thanks for joining us.

I was born in Lebanon. We were part of the last remaining very small community of Jews not Drews Jews J-E-W-S who were in Lebanon.

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