The Scott Adams School - 05/21/26 GAD SAAD! Suicidal Empathy #1 on the NY Times Best Seller list
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Scott Adams
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Today on The Scott Adams School, Erica and Owen are joined by Gad Saad, author of *Suicidal Empathy* and bestselling author of *The Parasitic Mind*. If the ideas in this conversation are right, they may not just shape politics and culture... they may shape our future itself.
Join us as we discuss empathy, reason, society, and the choices that determine where civilization goes next. Our lives may depend on conversations like this.
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| 0:00.0 | guys. Can you see them yet? Oh, we're live. Good morning, everyone. Hi, everybody. |
| 0:07.7 | Dr. Gadzad, can I call you Gad? Please. Okay. I love this image of you because this is the |
| 0:14.4 | background and the face I've been listening to for so many years. And to be talking to you is such a dream. |
| 0:21.7 | I have so much to say, but I'm going to try to rein some of it in. |
| 0:25.7 | But you guys, are we so excited? |
| 0:28.3 | Hooray. |
| 0:29.7 | Do people call you Dr. Sad? |
| 0:31.5 | That sounds like a Marvel comic villain. |
| 0:33.5 | Oh, I insist that my wife calls me Dr. Sadden to bed. |
| 0:40.6 | Oh, she is a good sport. |
| 0:44.2 | Oh, my gosh, you guys, welcome in. |
| 0:46.9 | It is May 21st, 2026 at the Scott Adams School. |
| 0:51.4 | Imagine Scott right now. |
| 0:52.6 | He is looking down and just beaming. So we can't do |
| 0:57.5 | anything without doing one thing first. So everybody, get your vessels, get your liquids. |
| 1:04.1 | Here we go. Because we've learned that coffee is even healthier than we thought. How about that, huh? Yes, the recent science, |
| 1:14.4 | New York Times reports, says that coffee is really, really good for you. So, not only do we |
| 1:22.5 | have the delight of the simultaneous sip, but we're all going to be healthier in a moment, |
| 1:27.0 | those of us having coffee. |
| 1:28.8 | And all you need to participate is a cup or a mugger, a glass, a tanker, chelzerstein, a canteen, jugger, |
| 1:34.4 | a flask, a vessel of any kind, fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee, because |
| 1:40.2 | it's so healthy. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine the day, the thing that makes everything better, |
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