Hi, everybody. This is Scott Sade. I hope that you're doing well. I just returned a couple of days ago from a

trip to the University of Chicago where I spoke at the, let me get the title right of the conference,

the Freedom of Intellectual Navigation Conference, which was organized and hosted by Dorian Abbott.

Many of you might remember that he was a guest on my show, phenomenal guy.

And so this was a conference where many folks who are, many academics, who are free thinkers,

who've had a price to pay for speaking against the

orthodoxy were present at this conference.

It was wonderful to be with clear thinking, reasonable, reasoned academics, true intellectuals who were not stifled by cowardice and by herd-like mentality.

And I interacted with many of them, you know, at various social settings, at lunch, at dinner, just lovely folks, met some new people,

some of whom are from the University of Chicago, people that I did not know who were also lovely.

And so this may seem, well, what's so surprising about this?

Well, it is surprising in that, as you probably might imagine, it hasn't always been

easy to be me in academia because I've always spoken my mind. I've always taken positions that are

contrary to what is the acceptable, you know, orthodox position to take and to now find myself

amongst, you know, top academics who all with whom, you know, I share this,

this bent to never buck under pressure was just, it gave me great solace.

So thank you, Dorian.

Thank you to the University of Chicago for, you know, organizing and hosting this conference.

I give a talk on my forthcoming books of Osama Empathy.

I have posted it.

The lecture was recorded on my wife's phone.

So the audio is not great, but you could listen to it on my X platform, on my YouTube channel, on my podcast.

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