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March 20, 2025 - Viva & Barnes

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Live with Gad Saad! Tesla on Fire! Canada on TDS! And "Suicidal Empathy" Turns Violent? Viva Frei

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	Now investigating multiple cases of possible arson targeting Teslas and Cybertrucks.
	This dramatic video shows multiple cars in flames.
	Police say the attacker used Molotov cocktails.
	It's the latest in more than a dozen instances of arson and vandalism targeting Tesla.
	The same suspect shot more Teslas with a gun.
	Tesla Cybertrucks were set on fire in Kansas City and earlier this month, that's fired at a Tesla dealership in Oregon.
	Cybertrucks on fire in Seattle.
	Wow, you guys like petty acts of domestic terrorism, huh?
	When I tell you that I'm angry today, it's because I'm angry and frustrated today, and I went for a jog and I figured I'll listen to the latest from Gad Sad.
	It just so happened that the episode that I turned on was a list of things that are pissing off Gad Sad.
	And I tell you, there's nothing like jogging and grinding your teeth at the same time.
	We're going to get into this thoroughly.
	And I am always very reluctant to draw analogies between current events and, you know, Nazi Germany.
	But just imagine, there's no people that are the victim of this type of property violence.
	Although there are.
	Imagine a crowd in Germany in 1938 cheering on Kristallnacht.
	Yeah, a bunch of buildings were broken and the windows burnt.
	Yeah, the crowd is cheering.
	And we'll find out if Gad Saad finds that comparison offensive.
	If you do not know who Gad Saad is, run a poll.
	There's no poll able to be run.
	If you do not know who Gad Saad is, put a one in the audience.
	We got Gad Saad coming on.
	Okay, Gad, come on in now.
	Gad and I start talking before the show just to make sure the mics are working.
	I'm like, dude, this has all got to go live.
	We're going to wait for him to...
	I'm trying to.
	Okay, here we go.
	Sir, Gad Saad is now...
	If you don't know, if you're not following Gad as closely as I'm following him, visiting professor at Northwood University and the Global Ambassador, the episode that I started before listening to the list of things that are currently pissing you off was your speech at Northwood, but the audio was not as good on my iPhone as...
	Oh, no.
	No, no, it wasn't terrible.
	It was just like, you know, it was an outdoor mic.
	Whereas your podcast is a beautiful microphone.
	Mr. Gadsad, for those who may not know who you are, very quickly, and let's get into the list of things that are pissing both of us off.
	Well, first, so good to be back with you.
	Thank you so much.
	Always a pleasure to be with the vivacious, ebullient, gorgeous Piva Frey.
	Who am I?
	I'm an evolutionary behavioral scientist, which basically means I apply evolution to study human behavior.
	I'm a professor at my home university is in Canada, Concordia University.
	But as you said, I'm on a leave currently at Northwood University, which is a small but real honey badger university in Michigan, largely focused on a business education.
	It's really a big business school.
	And I just returned from there yesterday.
	I was there for the first week of classes.
	I'm actually teaching A course on the parasitic mind.
	So that's been really fun.
	It's been great to interact with the students.
	And yeah, I'm an author, written many books, many academic papers and so on.
	We're going to get into your latest, which has not yet been published, but it's, as I brought up the comment, suicidal empathy.
	Yes, sir.
	Actually, what I did get by listening to the portion of your speech at Northwest was you have a curriculum for a program, a course that you're currently teaching.
	How often do you have to go down to teach it?
	Yeah, that's a great question.
	So one course is only being taught to professors and staff, which I thought was really cool, very innovative of Northwood to do that, because we also need to inoculate the professors who are spewing all the bullshit to the students.
	And so on Mondays, I teach a one and a half hour course to faculty and staff.
	Only the first course, which was this past Monday, is in person.
	The other ones are remotely.
	And then I teach another parasitic mind course, but eight weeks long to students, undergraduate students.
	The first and the eighth week are in person,
	So there is a way that I can possibly sign up for this.
	I'm going to see if there's a way that I can sign up remotely because I would love to follow it.
	Although I think I'm going to pick your brain worth of an entire course today.
	Well, I say everybody who knows you knows of the concept of suicidal empathy.
	And I mean, it's on steroids now, Gad.
	But the latest book, when is it going to be released?
	It's on pre-order now.
	Right.
	Well, it's not yet available for pre-order.
	Officially, meaning by contract, I only have to submit...
	The first draft of the book to my publisher next year.
	But it has so taken off.
	It is so timely.
	And, you know, when Elon Musk keeps publicly tweeting, we need the book ASAP, you sort of drop everything else and focus on it.
	And so I'm trying to speed up the timeline.
	So hopefully, maybe by the end of 2025, if everything goes well.
	Again, I listened to your list of things that are pissing you off.
	And we'll get into, you know, an itemizer.
	It's going to come up.
	You have an amazing, not an understanding, but way of applying evolutionary psychology to what we're witnessing right now.
	I'm more simplistic.
	I look at propaganda media, and I think it's propaganda media.
	But we're witnessing now, at least with Elon Musk, and this outright war against Tesla.
	I don't know how you characterize it.
	Do you think that this actually reflects the sentiment of a substantial portion of the population?
	Is this brainwashing via media?
	And if it's one or the other...
	What in hell?
	I'm going to turn and I want to show you a book.
	I'm giving them...
	I'm not their publicist.
	I'm not related to them, although one of the authors has been on my show this way.
	So this book is called The Enigma of Reason.
	It's by Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber, who are two French cognitive psychologists.
	The book is titled The Enigma of Reason, and you'll see in a second why I'm mentioning it.
	I actually...
	Reference this book in Chapter 7 of The Parasitic Mind.
	What Mercier and Sperber argue is that human beings did not evolve the capacity to reason in order to seek out some objective truth, but rather they evolved their faculty of reason simply to win arguments.
	Now, you can see how I'm setting this up for your Elon Musk question.
	Therefore, When you're seeing the tribalism and the hate that you're seeing, it is a reflection of the fact that when people are evaluating Elon Musk, they're not saying, "Is he objectively someone who is doing good?"
	But rather, they're trying to make sure that their team wins.
	When Elon was a billionaire on the side of the Democrats, then he was the greatest green guy and he was doing Tesla and he was a hero of everyone.
	When he now endorses Donald Trump, All objective metrics cease to exist.
	He's no longer on our team.
	Therefore, he must be Himmler.
	So again, this book is incredible.
	And again, I have nothing to do with them, but I think it's a very technical book.
	It's an academic book, but it's an incredibly powerful book because it really does point to that insight that people simply care about being proven right.
	That's why you have so many people who will go against Trump, even if Ten minutes earlier, they would have told you that they support the exact same policy that Trump is espousing.
	The minute that he espouses it, then I'm against it.
	So that's a very difficult problem to overcome, Viva, because I'm in the business of trying to, you know, inoculate people against stupidity, but knowing that the architecture of the human mind doesn't care about truth and only cares about being proven right.
	It's a tall order at times.
	The question is, I mean, the book sounds like a long, not to say a long-winded, explaining what we typically refer to as motivated reasoning.
	You want to come to the conclusion so you'll twist and bend to make it happen.
	What is the, I mean, what's the, to use the term, but like, what's the evolutionary basis?
	Is this just a question of fitting in with the crowd and the likelihood of survival if there is a certain amount of crowd think?
	Yeah, that's a great question.
	I mean, certainly there is a bit of that, right?
	We're both a herd animal and an animal that tries to, at times, differentiate themselves from others.
	Actually, there's a very interesting paper that was published a few years ago that looked at, and you'll see in a second...
	I'm going to relate it to what you just asked, that looked at two types of advertising strategies, okay?
	One type of advertising strategy is called social proofing.
	So for example, if I say six billion people have been happily served by McDonald's, shouldn't you come to McDonald's?
	So there's been social proofing, meaning that it's already been tried and tested, so you can try it as well.
	There's another type of advertising appeal called A scarcity appeal, right?
	Limited edition, one of only a few.
	And it turns out that when you prime people for survival, they're much more likely to prefer the social proofing advertising appeal.
	But when you prime them for mating, they're much more likely to prefer the scarcity appeal.
	Why?
	Because when I'm facing a survival threat, then I want to be part of the herd.
	Therefore, social proofing works.
	But when I am primed for mating, I want to stand out from all of my competitors.
	I want the pretty girl to notice me and to see that I'm different from Viva.
	And therefore, the scarcity appeals to me.
	And therefore, we are an animal that both seeks to at times differentiate ourselves from others and at times be part of the herd.
	Okay, that's actually very fascinating.
	And when we're talking about...
	This type of tribalist us versus them.
	It is the peer-approved method and not the standing out and being the thought leader.
	It's another thing that you're trying to crack, I presume.
	How do you get through to the masses?
	Well, first of all, let me back it up.
	Is my analogy to the groupthink of what we just saw in that opening clip and eras of the past where people tolerated, promoted, condoned, and applauded violence?
	I mean, we're witnessing it right now.
	Is there any material difference between this level of rationalizing, justifying violence versus historical examples of it?
	Right.
	No, that's another great question.
	Look, these frailties of the architecture of the human mind are not specific to the current era, right?
	It is an indelible part of the architecture of the human mind, for example, to be parasitized.
	The only thing that is specific to the current era are the specific idea pathogens that manifest themselves today, right?
	So 300 years ago...
	It would have been perfectly reasonable for us to organize our neighborhood as follows.
	I think that Linda might be a witch.
	Let's throw her into some water, see if she actually swims.
	If she does swim, that proves that she's a witch.
	And if she drowns, oops, I guess Linda wasn't a witch.
	And hence the Salem witch trials, right?
	Now, in that time...
	That parasitic idea made perfect sense.
	Well, today we have other parasitic ideas.
	We have postmodernism.
	We have cultural relativism.
	We have social constructivism.
	And so the only thing that is unique about the current time period are the specific forms of parasitic ideas, irrationality, emotional incontinence.
	But all of these things are an indelible part of the human spirit, unfortunately.
	Now you said something, and I'm not sure if I just connected two dots, and it's going to be a novel idea.
	Salem Witch Trials.
	I remember, I don't know where I heard it, that there was some argument, theory, that there was some sort of mass pollution or mass toxic infection.
	I think it was because of what people were eating, which made them susceptible to hallucinations and this type of psychological madness.
	Does that ring any bell with you?
	Well, I don't know why, but I am an academic, so I always like to cite others.
	Here are two books that I'm currently using in my forthcoming book on suicidal empathy.
	A Colorful History of Popular Delusions.
	By the way, I didn't prepare these for this talk.
	It's because I'm working on the book.
	And then here's another one.
	Let me read it for you.
	Little green men.
	Mewing nuns and headhunting panics.
	A study of mass psychogenic illness and social delusion.
	Now...
	It could be the case that at times this mass psychogenic illness might actually be rooted in a material infection, but usually the fact that it's mass psychogenetic, it's precisely because there is no material thing.
	It's a mimetic transfer of a delusion that is not specifically tied, let's say, to a...
	Actual, nauseous substance, right?
	But I talk about that in the forthcoming book because I'm trying to demonstrate that there are many forms of mimetic transfers that very quickly happen.
	So, for example, the idea that suicidal empathy should be something laudable in the West is something that has spread very, very quickly through society.
	Mimetic means non-tangible, right?
	Like thought?
	Yeah, that's a great question.
	So mimetic, the term meme, which we now use in just common parlance, meme was a term that was introduced by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book called The Selfish Gene, where he was arguing that humans are,
	of course, both a cultural and biological animal.
	Well, to the...
	To the extent that we are a biological animal, our genes propagate.
	But to the extent that we are a cultural animal, our memes propagate.
	What is a meme?
	A meme is anything that can be transferred from one brain to another.
	So for example, if I am singing, whistling a jingle, and then you hear it, and now it goes into your brain, you start...
	Whistling it.
	Well, that was a mimetic transfer of a jingle.
	But if you read my books, I am infecting you with my ideas, my memes.
	Now, the reason why in the parasitic mind, I didn't use a mimetic framework, but instead used a neuroparasithological framework is because memes Don't have any inherent valence to them.
	They could be positive memes, they could be neutral memes, or they could be negative memes.
	Whereas when you say neuroparasitic, it is actually zombifying you, right?
	It is...
	It is a detriment to the host who is being parasitized to the advantage of the parasite that is altering your neuronal circuitry to suit its reproductive interests.
	And by the way, just so you know, in our locals community, Sophie Agape says, the Gadsad bingo card, wood crickets, suicidal empathy, parasitic mind, Justin Trudeau, Elon Musk, Trump, and Mark Carney.
	I could add a few, and I told her we're going to get to all of them.
	The reason I'm asking that is the idea that there's something in the water.
	And people today have been talking about the effects of plastics.
	And what's the word when they interfere with your...
	There's a word about microplastics interfering with your...
	Like endocrinological system?
	Yes, that's right.
	And interrupting...
	Endocrinological interruption.
	Yes.
	When you look at...
	You've seen the meme of the fish mouth.
	There's an actual face to what typically ends up being these psycho-rabid liberals.
	Is there some sort of genetic or external component that makes people go off the edge?
	Look, there definitely, for example, is proof that, let's say, testosterone is very down, right, for all sorts of material reasons.
	But I think the more direct route to the castration, if you'd like, is really through the parasitic idea.
	So it could be a one-two punch, right?
	There could be some elements of...
	What is lit, what is proverbially or literally in the water.
	But I think what is causing the castration and the spinelessness that we're seeing is really coming from those ideas.
	By the way, speaking of that, can I just read for you a tweet that I posted earlier?
	Absolutely.
	And it was endocrine disruptors was the word I was looking for.
	Thank you.
	This was Jessica Rose who mentioned it to me for the first, well, I heard it a few times, but then Jessica Rose got into it and it was amazing.
	Now, which tweet?
	Okay, you ready?
	Is this going to be about Bill Burr?
	Yes, sir!
	Okay, because I had that one on the back.
	I was like, yes.
	And I got a video of Bill Burr, too.
	We're going to talk about this.
	Oh, so are you ready?
	I'm going to read it for you so all the viewing audience enjoy.
	Dear Bill Burr, I personally know Elon Musk.
	If you'd like, I can explore with Elon the possibility of how to grow a spine and testicles in the lab, subsequent to which we can offer you those transplant services for free.
	Please let me know if this is something that might interest you.
	In the meantime, I hope that you'll return on Rogan's show to make fun of my name.
	That was a truly hilarious bit that only a comedic genius could come up with.
	Go, Bill!
	The level of disdain that I feel for this spineless castrato is immeasurable, right?
	Like for me to stop writing suicidal empathy so I can go after this guy.
	Because he is the perfect manifestation of what's happened to the US. He is exactly, I mean, of course, Justin Trudeau too.
	But he is a representation of both the parasitic mind and suicidal empathy.
	I mean, think about the platform that this degenerate has.
	And all he does all day is go on shows talking about how Elon Musk is a Nazi and so on.
	And so I have to go after him.
	I hope you enjoyed that tweet.
	We're going to get into a little bit more of it because it's a very weird thing with Bill Burr in particular, and I do wonder if social media, the phenomenon of the dopamine rush from the tweet, has actually either infiltrated or exacerbated the awfulness through which people do politics,
	where instead of it actually being thought out, insightful policy, it's whatever gets the most immediate reaction from the crowd.
	Bill Burr coming out, and not ostensibly, but in reality, Promoting violence against billionaires, not realizing that a billionaire to him, he is that much of a billionaire to someone who can't make ends meet.
	And if the idea that he's going to be promoting summary execution of billionaires because they mistreat the people off of whom they make their money, he's summoning demons in terms of what someone might rationalize doing to him, because to them, he's a billionaire, just with a little less money,
	but much more than him.
	They can only get away with it because they're sheltered from the consequences of the very policy that they promote.
	Exactly right.
	And by the way, one of the things that I've often been asked, are there some disciplines that are, academic disciplines, that are less likely to be parasitized by all of this nonsense?
	And the reason I thought about this is because you were saying that they're sheltered by the consequences of their stupidity.
	The engineering school and the business school are probably the two least parasitized faculties, academic faculties or disciplines, because to your point, they are wedded to reality.
	There is an autocorrective mechanism whereby if you espouse nonsense, look, you can't build bridges using postmodernist physics because there's this thing called the bridge will collapse.
	You can't build economic models to understand, you know, whatever, consumer choice or, you know, economic, macroeconomic realities if you use postmodernist mathematics because a lot of people are probably paying you a lot of money to do those predictions.
	And if it's based on nonsense, people are going to be upset.
	So in a sense, the reason why originally many of these idiotic ideas, yes, they all stem from,
	And that's why you saw the proliferation of these ideas completely unencumbered by common sense.
	The issue is that Bilber is running on the same...
	You know, late night shows that are out there promoting outright terrorism.
	And so they revel in it.
	It becomes sort of their niche.
	And the more they think the audience wants to hear it, the more extreme they get.
	Like, Bilbo has gone off a frickin' cliff within the last six months.
	He has.
	And I mean, look, I never watched Jimmy Kimmel, but I started looking at it because, you know, people would say how bad he is.
	I mean...
	I mean, literally, I think I was substantially funnier than him when I was seven or eight years old, right?
	I mean, literally, in sort of my comedic timing, my satire was a lot funnier than anything he's ever said.
	The other guy, Jimmy Fallon, I mean, he's painful to watch.
	Now, the only guy that I did follow in the past, in terms of his career, was Stephen Colbert.
	Who, at the time when he was with Jon Stewart, he really seemed to have a really spicy, unique delivery.
	And he's also gone completely off the deep end.
	And so now, the only, quote, late night show that I watch, it's not even that late on, it's at 10 o 'clock, is Gutfeld.
	And I usually watch Gutfeld, not so much for the interaction of all the guests, but his monologue is, I mean, I know Greg Gutfeld well.
	We've had dinner together.
	I've been on the show a few times.
	He is a smart guy, and he's a honey badger.
	He doesn't care.
	He tells it the way he sees it.
	But all of these other guys, not only are they no longer funny, but they're so wimpy, they're so castrated, they're so spineless, I can't stand it.
	Well, Jimmy Fallon is irritating to watch because his shtick is laughing like a goof, and then, you know, it's not even funny.
	It's funny you mention Colbert because he was funny.
	Back when he had a sense of humor, but that's sort of a truism.
	It's back when he had some introspection.
	I don't know if you have any specific insights on this.
	I find that the more liberal people get, the less funny they get, and it correlates to the more haughty they get or the more self-absorbed they get.
	They lose their sense of humor, and I don't know if it's a correlation that I'm drawing or if it's empirically justified, that the more seriously you take yourself...
	The less funny you become in life.
	I agree.
	So a couple of things to mention here.
	So first of all, in one of the earlier chapters in The Parasitic Mind, I have a whole section on the power of satire.
	And there what I do is I...
	I explain the power of satire in the context of how I use it in my own public engagement, right?
	I use satire, sarcasm, ridicule, mockery, not because I'm a mean guy, but because there is nothing more effective in highlighting stupidity than the use of satire.
	I mean, this is why I always remind people that dictators usually, they don't first go after the guys with the big muscles.
	They go after the guys with the sharp tongues, right?
	That's why the old, the maxim of the, you know, the pen is mightier than the sword.
	It's because what is dangerous to your position of authority as a dictator is if somebody comes along and mocks you, satirizes you.
	So nothing could be other than that.
	So your point is well taken.
	I would add another dimension, actually coming from an evolutionary perspective.
	Self-deprecation.
	And I'm going to use fancy language, but then I'll explain it, is actually a costly signal of your confidence.
	Let me explain what I...
	I know exactly what you're saying, and I've...
	Oh, I love this.
	Okay, please, go ahead.
	Yeah, so a costly signal in evolutionary biology is the following.
	I often use the peacock's tail, but I could have given you 73 million other examples.
	The peacock's tail could not have evolved through natural selection.
	Natural selection is the mechanism that confers a survival advantage to an animal.
	Now, the reason why it's not through natural selection is because actually having that big, burdensome, conspicuous tail reduces your survivability.
	It makes you more conspicuous to predators.
	It makes it more difficult for you to take flight and escape from predators.
	Therefore, how could it have evolved?
	It evolves through a dual mechanism called sexual selection, which is the evolutionary mechanism that confers reproductive advantage to an animal.
	Therefore, that peacock's tail is saying, despite my tail being burdensome, despite it being costly, I mean, literally costly in a physiological sense, but costly in that it reduces the likelihood of my surviving.
	I'm still standing here.
	Therefore, this must be an honest signal of my phenotypic quality.
	Therefore, ladies in the p-hands, please pick me because I'm not a pretender.
	So it's an incredibly powerful explanation of how many of these things evolve.
	Now, let's apply it to self-deprecation.
	If I am actually someone who's very self-assured, I don't have the fragility that would make it difficult for me to turn my satire and mockery against myself, right?
	So, you know, neither you and I are tall guys.
	And so I can make fun of the fact that I'm not six foot one without it affecting my sense of self because my confidence makes me actually seven feet tall.
	And so when I start putting on weight, I can go on Social media and say, "All right, ladies and gentlemen, I think I have officially reached walrus status."
	Well, because I'm not insecure about myself, I can make fun of me having just put on weight.
	And so, self-deprecation is an honest signal of true self-confidence.
	And to your point, having said all this, when you have the super acerbic Nasty progressives who are ultimately shaky about their ideologies.
	They can't turn it inwards and make fun of themselves because that would require for you to be self-assured about your bullshit and they're not self-assured.
	So what they'll do instead is they'll try to cancel you for having mocked them.
	Goddamn, just that right there was about $10,000 worth of tuition fee.
	I'm snipping and clipping that, and I want to turn it into not a short, but a segment for subsequent publication.
	The most important thing that you said there, I never realized that the female version of a peacock is called a peahen.
	I thought they were just both called peacocks.
	Of all the stuff I said, that's what you were saying?
	No, it is amazing, because it's my own self-reflection.
	Of course you can say whatever the hell you want about me, which is why trolling doesn't exactly work, and not because I'm uber confident, but I think it's just because I'm uber realistic.
	But the people who feign outrage at every slight and every minor insult are the most insecure, fragile people on earth.
	I want to read you something.
	Hold on.
	Stay with me.
	I want to read you something from this guy.
	Now I am plugging my own stuff.
	Where is it?
	This way.
	Let me go get an Amazon link for this as you speak.
	Yes, you better.
	Okay, here we go.
	I swear to God, I just opened by fluke and it's exactly on the page that I wanted.
	Yeah.
	People are going to think we coordinated this like a fine dance before we went away.
	Okay.
	So, Satire as the Surgeon's Scalpel.
	Okay.
	That's the title of the section on page 51 of the paperback edition of The Parasitic Mind.
	You ready?
	Please.
	And right now, I've put the link for the book, the Amazon affiliate link.
	Get the book.
	Thank you so much.
	There are several...
	There's quotes here at the start of the section, but I'll read one for you.
	Quote, this is from Peter Sloterdijk, okay?
	He's a philosopher.
	His name is Sloterdijk?
	Yeah, like S-L-O-T-E-R-D-I-J-K.
	Peter Sloterdijk.
	Okay, that's an unfortunate name, but I guess it might be normal in another language.
	Okay.
	But look how brilliant it is.
	"How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it it can take.
	For truth is a matter that can stand mockery that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it.
	Whatever cannot stand satire is false."
	I mean, is that a mic drop quote or what?
	It is.
	Well, call me old-fashioned.
	The other one, which might be even shorter, is...
	Truth is like a line.
	It needs not defending.
	Let it loose and it'll defend itself.
	But that's damn good.
	And by the way, I didn't get your book.
	I got it on Audible because I only listened to the book.
	I've said this a number of times.
	The new one, Suicidal Empathy, you're going to do the voice for the audiobook?
	Oh, thank you for asking this.
	So in the first draft, Suicidal Empathy is with HarperCollins, which is, you know, I guess number two.
	When they first sent me the contract, and having received so much abuse from readers and fans and Joe Rogan, because I hadn't read my last couple of books and self-narrated, but I tried to explain to people that it wasn't my choice to make,
	I made sure to change the clause in the draft of the HarperCollins that said...
	I reserve the right to self-narrate it.
	So at least I've done that.
	Now, I can't promise that they'll go with it, but at least it is included as a clause in the contract.
	It must be.
	You have a unique voice.
	I'm not sure if I ever wrote a book, if my voice is sufficiently unique, but there's some who have a distinctly unique voice, and you are certainly one of them.
	Thank you.
	But now, again, talking about tyrants who can't experience mockery, you're back in Montreal right now, right?
	Regrettably, yes.
	Every time I have a Canadian on, I say, like, is everything as bad up there as we think it is?
	The anti-Trump nonsense in Montreal, in Canada, it's as bad as it looks like on social media.
	We're not just seeing the filter-up effects of it?
	It's worse.
	I joked, but it's true that Trump's powers are so magnificent that he was able...
	To take a post-nation country like Canada.
	Remember, Trudeau told us that we are a post-nation country, right?
	Because he's a globalist.
	And he turned Canadians into being patriotic again by banding them together against mean, nasty United States and Trump.
	So he managed to make Canadians patriotic.
	But now here's the bad part.
	I mean, there's nothing wrong with being patriotic.
	Here's the bad part.
	Typical...
	What interaction I have with fans who come up to me on the street?
	Let's say in my neighborhood.
	Oh, Dr. Saad, I'm such a massive fan.
	I love everything you stand for.
	I love everything about you.
	Everything.
	Thank you so much for your work.
	My answer, thank you.
	That's very, very kind.
	Thank you for the kind words.
	Do you mind if I ask who you're going to be voting for in the next federal election?
	Oh, I'm voting.
	I'm voting.
	I'm voting for liberals, Professor Saad.
	How the hell...
	Did you just finish saying, thank you for everything that you stand for, when everything that I stand for is the perfect antithesis of what the liberals who are illiberals stand for, but that shows you the disconnect that happens in the minds of most Canadians.
	What's driving me nuts is that people are stupid enough, and I'm being mean to liberals, I guess.
	Anybody who's stupid enough to vote for a liberal Is an idiot who has learned nothing from the last nine years.
	Now, it's not to say that I would endorse Pierre Poilievre because I don't and won't.
	But you'd have to be stupid to continue voting for the very party that has destroyed you for the last decade.
	Only because you don't know that the guy that's replaced him, A, was behind the scenes the entire time advising Trudeau.
	So it's not even as though he's better than Trudeau.
	I'm not sure which podcast it was I was listening to you where you're like...
	He's a little bit better than Trudeau because Trudeau's the worst.
	I think he's worse than Trudeau because he is Trudeau's guiding policy behind the back scenes and he is the successful globalist whore that Justin Trudeau is aspiring to be.
	You have to be an idiot to vote for the Liberals, period.
	And the fact that I'm looking at the markets and it's like 60% now of the markets think that it's going to be a Liberal Prime Minister, I'm despaired.
	And it seems that it's motivated.
	By this anti-Trump derangement syndrome in Canada, who has got bigger problems to worry about than what Trump is doing in America, or even the fear of what he might do to Canada through tariffs.
	I have a theory about this, that it's a self-defense mechanism where Canadians cannot control their own misery, so the only thing they can do is redirect the anger as a result of their uncontrolled misery by pointing it at a boogeyman who they then get to blame for the misery they're experiencing and have experienced for the last 10 years,
	even though they know deep down he's not the cause.
	Beautiful analysis.
	I couldn't agree more.
	I mean, think about it.
	You're upset.
	I mean, now Trump has sort of softened his position to argue for reciprocal tariffs, which, again, if you are a perfectly knowledgeable evolutionist...
	You'd recognize, as I explained in suicidal empathy, that reciprocity is a foundational Darwinian mechanism that shapes all sorts of social interactions.
	I mean, literally, social grooming that is found in primates, right?
	I scratch your back, you scratch mine.
	I mean, what do you see with primates?
	The primate comes, gives their back to his friend, who then...
	Picks off the ticks and the parasites that he otherwise couldn't reach with the understanding that once you're done grooming me, I'll reciprocate and offer you that service.
	So in several of my earlier books in, you know, in evolutionary psychology, I talk about the importance of reciprocity as a Darwinian, as a foundational, fundamental Darwinian mechanism that oils social bonds.
	It makes perfect evolutionary sense to me that if you impose 100% tariff on me, then it's certainly not onerous that I would impose the exact same one on you.
	But notwithstanding that argument, you're getting upset at Trump for levying tariffs, but you're quiet at the astounding parasitic taxation system that we are under in Canada.
	How is that?
	If the currency that you are trying to optimize is how much money should be left in your pocket, who is the greater thief of the size of your wallet?
	Is it Donald Trump in the last six weeks, or is it what you are faced in terms of taxation in Canada?
	Now, here's the problem.
	It's quite an important problem when it comes to, say, you know, trying to create collusions amongst people.
	Many people in Canada benefit from parasitic taxation.
	And therefore, when I go on social media and I rail against all my money being stolen from me, the typical answer I get, which really, I mean, genuinely not only kills me, it hurts me.
	Let me say, not all your money, just half of your money.
	No, actually, it's more than half.
	It's much more than half.
	I get, well, what's the big, why are you such a...
	You know, a pig.
	Why are you so greedy?
	Why can't you share your wealth with the rest of us?
	So if 95% of Canadians are the net beneficiary of the taxation Ponzi scheme, it's left to the 5% like me to support the rest of the Ponzi pyramid, right?
	And so I don't think we'll ever get rid of the parasitic taxation because too many people benefit from it.
	I hear you.
	It's completely insane.
	But unfortunately, Canadians are very, very likely to make the same mistake again with Kanye.
	I will do my best to make sure it doesn't happen.
	But I got into a bit of a fight with a guy named Harry Faulkner, who's a journalist.
	And they fault me for leaving, or people fault me for leaving.
	And I do appreciate 50% of that is...
	Not envy, but the anger that they can't leave despite the fact that they want to.
	And then there's probably a bunch who say they're going to sit there and fight.
	And I'm like, do you think I'm going to pay 50% of whatever I make to the government so they can tyrannize me, brutalize me, brutalize my children?
	And somehow that's more patriotic for me to go finance the abusive machine than vote with my feet?
	We pay a lot of tax here because you still pay it to the federal, but you have to be stupid to finance your abusers if you have the option.
	Again, not...
	Sorry, go ahead.
	Finish your question.
	No, no.
	I was going to get back to the tariffs, but go ahead, please.
	I was going to say there's nothing that angers me more than the discussion of taxation, but I'm happy to do it even though there's going to be a noticeable increase in my blood pressure as I try to say this.
	Look...
	1917 in Canada was the first time that income taxes was levied in 1917.
	And it was meant to be for a very, very short time period, very small amount from a very few people, you know, because of the war stuff, right?
	And similar history in the United States and so on, right?
	120 years later...
	It's only gotten worse and never gotten better, right?
	So we start with a very, very small temporary thing.
	Then it grows to more, to more.
	By the way, you said it's 50%.
	It actually is not, right?
	The highest progressive tax rate at the federal level is 33%.
	The highest at the Quebec level is 25%.
	So 25 and 33. Now remember that.
	Now, so if you're making over a certain amount, you're getting taxed at that rate, right?
	Let's add the fact that when you're taxing me on this, there is something unique about taxing my mind.
	It's not I bought this for a dollar and I sold it for two.
	Any taxation is painful.
	But taxing my mind, my words, my theories, when most of the royalties were made outside of Canada and you keep 58%, that is a unique level of debauchery, right?
	Now, hold on.
	We're not finished.
	Now I'm left with 42%.
	Now you'd say, you know what?
	The government has taken enough.
	By the way, they taxed me already on my professorial salary, much more than 50%.
	But now I went out and wrote bestselling books.
	You tax me more and more.
	Now you'd say, okay, maybe you feel a sense of shame.
	No more.
	No, no, no.
	The 42% that I'm left with when I go out and buy stuff.
	You tax me 15% on that, both sales tax provincial and federal.
	But it doesn't end there.
	Then you tax me carbon tax.
	Yes, Carney's trying to remove it.
	And you tax me school tax and property tax and so on.
	So once I end up with all of the taxes, I'm roughly left with 30 cents to the dollar.
	So that someone like me, who by any measure is a...
	Very, very successful member of society.
	When I look at the end of the year at what I have left in money, I go, where's the money?
	How come I was such a successful author?
	How come I can't retire?
	How come I don't have any money?
	Well, because the government is an empathetic government that doesn't think it's fair for you to be more successful than others.
	They will take your money and redistribute it properly.
	Enraging.
	And again, as someone who has broken the residency requirement, there is that exit tax, which they gleefully charge you a deemed disposition of the value of your assets, which you may or may not have, and that's what you have to pay when you leave.
	It's criminal, period.
	And people don't really understand just how bad it is up in Canada, because it's not like the 47% to 50% of your income, then you've got 15% sales tax, and you say property tax, mutation tax.
	Hidden taxes, license fee renewal, passport renewal.
	It's endless chipping away and then they go and what do they do with it?
	Squander it on foreign countries, on foreign conflict and whatever.
	The issue with the tariffs, and I brought up someone in the chat, said Canada wouldn't be so pissed if they weren't systematically exploiting the US.
	The idea, the hypocrisy that drives me nuts.
	Poiliev comes out and says, I'm standing up for Canadians so we're going to impose retaliatory tariffs.
	Canadians don't seem to understand tariffs on chicken, milk, poultry, meat.
	In the U.S., it's been like 200, 300 percent that they've imposed on American imports to prop up the Canadian market.
	And all of a sudden, Trump comes in and says, I want to stand up for Americans.
	He's a traitor to Canadians as though he ever had an obligation to them.
	But when Canadians fight back, then it's defending Canadian, you know, Canadian jobs.
	It's predicated on ignorance is the bottom line.
	Well, it's predicated on ignorance and it's predicated on a sense of entitlement that's difficult to comprehend, right?
	There is something in decision-making called rational choice theory, right?
	Rational actor theory, which basically says that all other things equal, it makes perfect sense, and certainly evolutionary sense, that people or actors look out for their best interests.
	I mean, it's at the root of Ayn Rand's objectivism, right?
	Quote, selfish.
	So why would it seem, I mean, why can't you have theory of mind as a Canadian and say, in the same way that we benefit from this, they've decided to stop the gravy train.
	By the way, when I tell that to Canadians, I'm treated as though I'm treasonous, right?
	Because a logical person should just say that Donald Trump is Himmler and the fact that he is trying to negotiate a better deal for his people, Proves that he's Himmler.
	By the way, my 16-year-old daughter went to see her physiotherapist because she was having knee problems, which she has been having endemically now because of soccer.
	That physiotherapist took the opportunity to start lecturing for 20-30 minutes my daughter because my daughter said that, yes, we often vacation in the United States.
	My dad has a visiting professorship there.
	And then...
	The physiotherapist tells my daughter in a very condescending and patronizing way, oh, sweetie, it looks like you've drank the Kool-Aid.
	No rational person could ever have anything good to say about the United States.
	But you're just a moronic child.
	That might explain why you're aping your dad's favorite position towards the United States.
	It's maddening.
	Pisses me right off beyond the point of no return.
	Were you present with the doctor?
	I wasn't.
	I wasn't.
	It would have been bad either way.
	The audacity to do it in front of the parent, but the audacity to do it when the parent is not there is beyond words.
	Not that this doctor might be very well versed in politics.
	To indoctrinate somebody else's kid in the absence of the parent where the parent is not, that's enraging.
	I had a similar experience with at least one of my doctors who...
	Has now gone off the deep end in terms of, like, off the deep end.
	This was my GP who, he checked my prostate.
	And then I'm sure if he did it now, he would, like, deliberately cause some additional harm.
	People, they've lost their ever-loving minds, and I don't know how you come back from it, but I don't know where it stops.
	I mean, where does Canada go from here?
	Yeah, I really don't know.
	I think that, you know, demographic shifts that have happened in Canada, I fear.
	That they are irreversible.
	I mean, there is a pathway to reverse them, but there is no...
	I mean, absolutely deport anyone who exhibits any ideological commitment to any belief system that is contrary to our foundational values.
	They're back on that plane.
	I don't give a shit what papers they have.
	I mean, there is such a thing as being seditious, right?
	I mean, that word does exist, right?
	But you have to have the courage to be able to invoke such things, right?
	The reality is that Canada is changing in ways, as I know you know, Viva, in ways that are simply astounding.
	And I may have mentioned this before, and if I have, forgive me for repeating, but maybe I haven't.
	From 1975, when we first moved to Canada from Lebanon to 1998, and the only reason I know that it's 1998, because it was an episodic memory, which I'll explain in a second, meaning that I retained it in my long-term memory.
	From 1975 to 1998, I had never seen a single woman Not one.
	In 1978, I saw one downtown and I said, "Oh my God, I haven't seen this in decades.
	I've never seen this."
	From 1998 to today, I can walk down on any street and anywhere in Montreal and 30, 40, 50% of the women are veiled.
	Now, that didn't happen over a 500-year period.
	It happened over two decades.
	What are the numbers that must have occurred over the past two decades to completely alter my sense of belonging in the society, right?
	Now, I could have easily argued that Look, there's an area in Montreal called Outremont, which, of course, you know, maybe your viewers don't.
	It's the Black Hatter Jewish neighborhood.
	Exactly.
	It's the Black Hatters.
	It's Orthodox Jews.
	Now, they are restricted to a very, very small area, and that's fine.
	That's great.
	Live and let live.
	Now, imagine if overnight, over the past 20 years, one out of every two people that I saw in Montreal was Hasid...
	Hasidim, right?
	Well, I could also say, you know what?
	I never signed up to be in an ultra-Orthodox society.
	So I don't need to hear the bullshit from people.
	Oh, but you're Islamophobic.
	First of all, there is no such thing as Islamophobia.
	But the reality is, many of us, I mean, literally escaped that world so that we could have that ideology in the rearview mirror.
	And now I can't escape it, right?
	I mean, for example, at my home university, for many, many years that I was there, we never had to have any meetings regarding religious accommodations.
	In 2011, I was asked to be on a university-wide committee, which was stupid of them to ask me to be on it.
	They asked me to be on a committee in order for us to now navigate.
	Religious accommodation issues and I brought up the point right there in front of everybody while everybody put their head down and started shuffling their paper pretending they didn't hear me speak.
	I said I'm wondering why is it that we have called for this religious accommodation meeting now?
	Has something happened at Concordia or in Montreal or in Quebec that necessitates that we've had this?
	Of course we all knew what it was but nobody was willing to say what it was.
	Cultures and religions have specific belief systems.
	Some of those belief systems might be perfectly consistent with the belief systems of the whole society, and some might be perfectly antithetical.
	It doesn't take a fancy professor to make that point, and yet regrettably our immigration policy has been one that says all immigrants are equally likely to assimilate, and Canada will forevermore Bear the brunt of that decision.
	Well, what's amazing, Encryptus brought this up.
	I remember it when Trudeau said Canada has no core identity.
	And I remember people calling Canada a post-nation state.
	I never really understood what it meant.
	And now all of a sudden...
	I have all this in suicidal empathy, by the way.
	Go ahead.
	Oh, suicidal empathy.
	Sorry, I'm thinking of Parasitic Mind.
	Everybody must read it.
	What was I about to say, though?
	It was about the no core identity.
	Oh, yes, that's right.
	And talking about the Orwellian tearing up the script mid-speech and just going the other way and everybody pretends that that's what they were saying all along.
	And going back to the concept from the beginning, the flag during the Ottawa protest was considered a far-right extremist Russian-financed object that the right was exploiting to claim patriotism while they were secretly far-right extremists.
	CBC ran an article where they said the word freedom has become the rallying call for the far right.
	It might have been CNN.
	It's one of the propagandist rags.
	And now all of a sudden, it's like they take the flag, they take the word freedom, they take the word nationalism, and they adopt it and make it their own despite what they've been saying for the last 10 years.
	But you said they had the religious accommodation thing in 2011.
	What did happen in that year?
	Well, I think it was, well, I mean, what was happening certainly at Concordia I mean, look, Concordia, for certainly well over 20-plus years, has been colloquially referred to as Gaza University.
	Someone said it in the chat.
	I was going to bring it up, but I don't want to look like I was being overtly controversial.
	Yeah, I remember when I was at McGill, it was 2001, and I think it was Netanyahu.
	2002, I think.
	2002 when he came to speak and there were protests and they prevented him from speaking in 2002.
	I was luckily at McGill, which was the reasonable university, but I think that's fallen off the cliff as well.
	Sorry. Go on.
	Yeah, so I think what happened is that, you know, look, before I answer what happened, let me give a personal story.
	And this probably is mid-80s.
	I was a very competitive soccer player.
	I think we were playing a semi-final maybe of the Quebec Cup in what's called the Premier League in Quebec.
	And it just so happened that the game was happening at the start of Yom Kippur.
	Yom Kippur, for those of you who don't know, is the highest holiday.
	In Judaism, it's about a 25-hour fast, full fast, right?
	No water, no food.
	No brushing your teeth, people.
	No brushing your teeth.
	Now, I had a game, and at the time, I mean, it's now been a few years that I haven't done kippur, but from about the age of 10, 11, till about maybe 10 years ago.
	I had an uninterrupted adherence to Yom Kippur and so 1985-86 I would have certainly been in the midst of always adhering to Yom Kippur and so I had to go to a game, I had to play that game without ever drinking or hydrating at that game and then waited 25 hours and I mean literally you could die from it okay in terms of dehydration right and yet I didn't have the reflex to say Change the schedule to fit
	my religion.
	All the years that I have been a professor, even though it was my right to not go to school and teach on the days where it was high holidays, I didn't think it was appropriate of me to do that because that's my problem.
	I'm at a secular university in a secular society.
	That's the cost I have to bear.
	I don't impose it on others.
	So look at the difference.
	In mentality, my burden of my religion is mine alone to bear, not to be imposed on others for them to accommodate my things.
	But then the beautiful, noble religion of Islam comes along and very quickly says, no, no, no.
	When you are in our society, you adhere to our wishes.
	And when we come to your society, you adhere to our wishes.
	Got it?
	Any questions?
	And that's what you see.
	And as the numbers increase, those encroachments become a lot more ominous.
	Today, as I predicted all along, you now have closing of streets for mass prayers.
	Go back and see if I predicted that.
	It's all a numbers game.
	When there's only two or three of us, but why, God?
	I'm just a poor minority.
	Ya Allah, why?
	Right?
	You get it?
	But once we become a lot more, we're a lot more forceful, and then one day you wake up, oops, you live in an Islamic society.
	I appreciate, first of all, the historical argument to that and the examples of it.
	I know just some, the pushback would be the rules of, like, why food is kosher when there's only 1.5% of the population who are Jewish.
	The pushback would be, what if the eruv, the little string that they put around neighborhoods, and some people say, look, It was always my view as well.
	I went to three different high schools, one of which was a very, I think it was Protestant.
	It was called Lower Canada College.
	And I was rebellious for the sake of being rebellious, but when people got upset that they had tryouts on Yom Kippur, I was like, if you want to live in a Jewish state, you can go live in the Jewish state, especially if you want to go to a school that is fundamentally Protestant of origin.
	I'm going to feel really stupid if it was Catholic.
	It doesn't matter.
	That's the way I felt.
	I know that people are going to say, however, that the same can be said to, say, a much lesser extent of the Jewish community as well, where you get holidays for Jewish holidays in non-Jewish societies, and that would be one of the flaws or the faults that they would levy against the Jewish community,
	just materializing in a different way.
	I mean, it's also a matter of how you go about...
	Imposing those requests, right?
	I mean, the sheer numbers of the number of Jews that there is in the world versus the number of Muslims is an important fact to incorporate into the discussion.
	It's about 125 to 1, right?
	So, for example, but by the way, this is going to come to this point in a second.
	A few days ago, I posted a clip of what looked like a woman completely covered her Okay,
	well, even if that is the case, I don't support that, right?
	I don't support the eraser of women if they are done by Jews or done by anybody else.
	That said, the number of Jewish women that adhere to this can roughly be counted on maybe not the totality of the ten fingers.
	The number of women that have this imposed on them on Islam is all, say, in the order of a couple hundred million.
	So then numbers matter.
	Yes, it's also disastrous for the ten Jewish women that are forced to have their identities erased.
	But in the same way that a two-pound person is overweight and a 200-pound person is overweight, the fact that we use the word overweight for both doesn't mean that we don't also recognize the scale of how much you're overweight.
	But of course, for the degenerates, those kinds of nuances are lost.
	Well, and speaking of which, I want to refresh my memory as to the year, but it was the question as to whether or not...
	New immigrants to Canada would have to take their veil off for the purposes of the swearing-in ceremony.
	And I even think for photographs.
	I've always been of this opinion, and it's not specific to any one religion or anything.
	It's like, you want to live in Quebec?
	Speak French.
	And if you don't want to speak French, get the hell out.
	If you don't like a French province, don't live there.
	There's plenty of places to live.
	But no, Montreal, Concordia has always been very progressive to the point of...
	Over the top.
	And I think all of Montreal has gotten that way.
	But the demographics of Canada now, and I was talking about this recently with someone, it's one in four people in Canada are born outside of Canada.
	And I don't know how you forget cohesion.
	There are European white immigrants that if you brought them in in certain numbers, you'd have problems and you'd have reactions.
	It's not from anyone.
	It's from a cohesion of assimilation to the values of that country.
	And I think Canada's now I think it's beyond a point of no return.
	I don't know how you come back from this.
	I agree.
	So I wrote an article a while ago, which I titled, you know, the key concept was cultural homophily.
	Homophily is the liking of similar others, right?
	And you find this kind of effect in many, many contexts.
	So for example, in...
	Evolutionary psychology, we have something called assortative mating.
	Assortative mating is the idea of birds of a feather flock together.
	And I discussed this in this book.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	This book right here.
	Oh, that's the other one.
	That was the sad truth about happiness.
	So in that book, I talk about a fundamental decision that you'll make that will either impart great happiness or great misery upon you.
	Choosing the right spouse.
	And there I talk about two opposing maxims when it comes to made choice.
	Either birds of a feather flock together or opposites attract.
	And the research overwhelmingly supports the birds of a feather being the correct maxim, certainly for long-term marriage.
	The opposites attract is probably good for short-term sex.
	That's exactly what I was going to say.
	If we're looking for a short-term mating opportunity, I may be, you know, sexually introverted.
	You may be sexually extroverted.
	That complementarity might work well and it might be great.
	But for long-term happiness, it's birds of a feather flock together.
	Now, the question is flocking on which feathers?
	We're talking about the foundational values that, you know, animate our lives, right?
	Very strong in my religion and you happen to be, you know, caustically atheist.
	Well, even though we'd like to think that love conquers all, we're probably putting the stats against us, given that our difference in worldview regarding religion as being part of our daily lives, okay?
	So why am I saying all this?
	So we know that homophily, preferring someone similar to you, happens in mate choice.
	It happens in friendship networks.
	It even happens in how you choose Your dog.
	So there's great research that shows that if you take photos of human owners and their dogs, but you don't match them, you just put five here, five here, and you ask people to match which one goes with whom, people are able to match them at much above chance level,
	meaning that we even assort on the type.
	That's why, for example, I have Belgian shepherds because Belgian shepherds are extremely good-looking, very aristocratic, very regal, very majestic, and it would make sense that I would be the owner.
	You see how I can deliver that with a straight face?
	So you see?
	So now why am I saying all this?
	Well, apply that principle to choosing immigrants homophily, right?
	All other things equal if we have shared linguistic heritage.
	It puts one tick in our favor.
	If we have shared history when it comes to individual freedoms, that's another one.
	If we have shared interests in living in a secular society, that's another one.
	So all other things equal, somebody from Denmark, who's indigenously Danish, is on average more likely to fit in within an Anglo-Saxon society than someone from Sana 'a, Yemen.
	Not because Yemen doesn't have lovely people, but they are equipped with a set of religious and cultural baggage that some might be consistent with Canada, others may be perfectly inconsistent with Canada.
	It doesn't take a very fancy evolutionary behavioral scientist to tell us that.
	So now if you import hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people, who come from societies where Pew survey has found that 95% to 99% of people pulled from those societies have endemic Jew hatred in their heart.
	Does it take a fancy professor to tell you that after a few years, you're going to have an increase in Jew hatred in the whole society?
	Oh, gee, how could that have happened?
	Well, it doesn't take much to predict that, right?
	So now they're setting up task force to understand what has led to this Jew hatred.
	What could it be?
	Well, I mean, could it be because you've let in millions of people whose definitional metric is their Jew hatred?
	People will accuse you for emphasizing the Jew aspect of this.
	You can look to Sweden and it doesn't materialize as Jew hatred, but rather materializes as women's rights issues.
	And you have problems which may or may not be specific Jew hatred, but rather also...
	And including intercultural problems that occur among the very same people that are coming in who then import their local domestic strife into Canadian politics, which I believe we're seeing in certain parts of Canada, cities I shan't mention.
	You look like you're going to have...
	No, no, forget that.
	The blood pressure might be up.
	It's tongue-in-cheek.
	But I guess I did...
	What are you doing and what are your plans for how to address this?
	Because at some point, I mean, people may fault me for having jumped ship, although I haven't, too early.
	At some point, there's a point of no return where the government might say, we like you here too much, Gad, and we're going to take everything if you want to leave.
	No, look, you and I have talked about this privately, but I'm happy to discuss it publicly.
	It's been many years that I've realized that...
	You know, my family's future is not in Canada.
	People say, well, why don't you leave then?
	Well, because there are other constraints.
	My wife's parents live here.
	My parents live here.
	You know, I was a tenure...
	I am a tenure professor here.
	It's not easy to pack your bags and leave and dismantle, you know, everything you did with your graduate students who are still there and so on.
	So it's not as easy as you'd like to think.
	But I really am getting to the place now where if I don't do it now...
	I will certainly regret it if I wait any longer.
	So I'm here to tell you, and I think I've already mentioned this on social media, so I'm not breaking any new ground.
	I've already received several offers from very, very alluring universities in the United States.
	So now I'm weighing my various options.
	And I suspect that I don't know exactly when, whether it'll be next year or the year after, but I feel as though my time here is truly numbered.
	At some point, it'll be a question of fleeing a country and claiming asylum for meaningful purposes.
	You have time for a few more questions?
	Sure, go for it.
	Can I read it?
	It says, Dr. Gadsad needs to relocate to Switzerland like so many others to avoid being devoured by taxation dragons.
	The amazing thing is...
	It's like the Canadian politicians have already figured this out.
	This is why a lot of them have offshore accounts.
	We're going to find out what globalist Mark Carney's finances are about, what his assets are, what he's been investing in while advising Trudeau to cripple the Canadian economy.
	Did the physiotherapist offer his daughter for being an American sympathizer?
	I just did an interview with Kelsey Sheeran.
	Have you ever had Kelsey Sheeran on?
	I haven't, no.
	I'll put you two in touch.
	It's amazing because we talked in depth about maids.
	A topic which you know YouTube doesn't at all want to let flourish on its own because people don't know what's going on in Canada.
	The left have gone way too far off the reservation.
	They're embracing tribalism to an extreme degree to which I now believe either civil wars or purges will occur across the West.
	Or something of a divorce where I don't know what states you're looking at, but states are going to have immigration and emigration that's going to reflect their political leanings.
	But the only question is, at the community level...
	When you have doctors who are taking it upon themselves to indoctrinate the children of their patients, you're going to have factions and breaking up at a micro level, not just a macro level.
	Look, I definitely, I actually do, I don't think it'll be a separation.
	I think if this continues, and I've said this for decades now, there will be civil war.
	Now, people say, oh, come on, that's hyperbolic.
	What are you talking about?
	The reality is that I can't predict whether it'll happen in 15 years or 22 years or 29 years.
	But push this reality to an extreme, people will eventually wake up, right?
	I mean, it always happens.
	What I always try to do is warn people so that the autocorrection happens peacefully.
	But with every day that passes, the chances of that happening peacefully are diminished, right?
	Because the dynamics change and it becomes that the only autocorrection has to be...
	A muscular one, a violent one.
	And so I don't hold out big hopes.
	Look, we didn't think these things would happen in all sorts of societies where the dynamics that we're now seeing in Canada happen.
	Like, right in Lebanon, we lived very nicely until we didn't, right?
	And why didn't we?
	Well, in Lebanon, it used to be...
	A majority Christian country during my lifetime, right?
	60-70% Christians.
	Now it's the exact opposite, right?
	And that's what happens in every society where Islam goes.
	Now it might take two years to purge everybody who's not Muslim, or it might take 200 years.
	But once Islam makes a sufficient incursion into a society, there is no reversal.
	This is why when you look at the 56 countries that are members of the OIC, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, most of them are 99%, 100%, 98% Islamic.
	Each of those societies was once 0% Muslim.
	How did it turn into 99% and 100%?
	Well, at times it's very quick.
	At other times it takes...
	Hundreds of years, but it will happen.
	And I assure you, it will happen in Canada.
	Maybe not in our lifetime, but it will happen.
	Gad, what do you have next on the...
	Everybody, by the way, stay tuned.
	I'm going to stick on.
	I got some links that we're going to look at after Gad leaves.
	But what do you have coming up on your schedule?
	Well, tomorrow I'm appearing on...
	If you guys, I'm assuming many of you know who Dr. Scott Atlas is.
	He's one of the guys who was on Trump's administration in his first term.
	He's a radiologist out of Stanford who spoke out against a lot of the COVID insanity.
	So I'll be appearing on his show tomorrow.
	I'm also appearing on, Will Cain now has a 4 o 'clock show that replaced Cavuto.
	On Fox, I'll be appearing on his show.
	Next week, I'm back to trying to work on Suicidal Empathy.
	I've traveled so much the last six weeks that I haven't been able to do much writing.
	So I'm really looking forward to going back to the cafe and being creative and productive.
	So those are the most immediate things on my...
	Excellent.
	Now, when I'm done with this, I'm going to put up all your links, Gad, and everybody can go find it.
	Well, they know who you are to find you.
	Find Parasitic Mind and everybody will eagerly await.
	Suicidal Empathy, a concept that has already gone mainstream before the book even came out.
	Look, I can do a search and it comes out in 60 languages.
	And so once in a while, just to excite my publisher, I will write to them and I say...
	You're welcome because you're about to break some sales record.
	I mean, if the current indications are accurate, I think, God willing, it's going to smash the success of Parasitic Mind.
	I'm going to see if I can find the Google Trends for the term Parasitic Mind because something tells me it's going to be flatline and then very recently a spike.
	Gad, thank you.
	Please come back on again whenever you can.
	And I may not meet you in Montreal.
	You'll come and meet me in Florida.
	From your lips to God's ear.
	Thank you so much.
	All right.
	Have a good one.
	You too.
	That was amazing, people.
	Encryptus, can we pull up the Google trend on parasitic mind?
	Not parasitic mind, on suicidal empathy?
	My joke...
	Go for it, sir.
	Okay, awesome.
	I made the joke that Gad came up with the term suicidal empathy, which is, I'll be empathetic to the point where it causes my own demise.
	And then I was like, well, you know, I think we might have gone to the point where it's now homicidal empathy.
	We're like, I'm going to kill you because of the righteousness.
	But I'm like, oh, that's just what it was always like before.
	Gat is amazing, people.
	Thoroughly, unequivocally amazing.
	Now, let me see.
	I didn't get all of the...
	The rumble rants this way, but because I see King of Biltong in the house and Gad said, look at this beautiful picture.
	I know he must be particularly happy with this photograph that exists on the internet.
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	Anton from Biltong.
	I had him on.
	We talked about South Africa.
	Amazing guy.
	Amazing product.
	Not a sponsor.
	A formal sponsor.
	He just figured out a way.
	Very efficient.
	Code Viva for 10% off.
	We're going on, by the way, with the show today, so don't go anywhere, people.
	Bill Burr.
	I want to bring it up, and I want to bring up what I thoroughly believe right now.
	We know that the media is indoctrination.
	We know that the media is mind-controlled.
	And I'm not saying this like a crazy...
	I was going to say crazy Alex Jones, except he's more right than the media that is indoctrinating.
	We know that it's a tactic, and they do it.
	And it's being done for a reason.
	And they are now in the realm of conditioning us to tolerate and promote and cheer violence.
	Now, I know I have it here.
	And I'm just trying to find it while I'm talking about it.
	It's not the right one.
	Damn it.
	No.
	No, not that one.
	Come on, man.
	It was Bill Burr.
	And they're like, oh, we...
	Oh, no, I started the show with it.
	That's why.
	Oh, darn it.
	Anyhow, where was the other one that I was going to bring up here?
	Darn it.
	Well, whatever.
	We're going to go to Rick Wilson.
	You might remember Rick Wilson from such threats as talking about Donald Trump and the donor class going to have to put a bullet.
	I'm not even going to finish the sentence because I don't want this being pulled up on some sort of algorithm.
	Rick Wilson is at it again, saying things which are all egregiously promoting violence.
	Rick Wilson apparently tweeted, kill Tesla, save the country.
	And the article was one of his substack or blue sky posts.
	And the photo on it was burning Teslas.
	And Rick Wilson says, so from 30 days to a full suspension, LOL.
	Guess Elon didn't like my video from last night.
	Or he didn't like you saying kill Tesla.
	Oh, but I only meant economically while I'm showing images supporting domestic terrorism.
	It is the conditioning to justify, rationalize, moralize violent behavior from people who have lost their ever-loving minds.
	I haven't followed Kyle Kalinske, but I've had the misfortune of coming across his tweets, and I guess they come across more often because I engage with them.
	I scrolled through his timeline, and Kyle Kalinske on Blue Sky, by the way.
	Because that's where people who promote CSAM and violence go.
	And listen, look at this.
	I made the joke that if he were tweeting about a woman, he would be arrested for stalking.
	He's lucky he's only tweeting about Elon and Tesla.
	Look at this.
	Psychopaths.
	Twitter line.
	We're going to get to this one in a second also.
	Left doesn't know how to meme because they lack the confidence to address their own thoughts.
	I'm glad Gad's sad.
	That's a really good...
	I'm glad Gad's sad.
	Formulated that in a way that I can fully rationalize it and appreciate it.
	But let me just play this.
	Here you go.
	Boycott Tesla.
	All right.
	MAGA is melting down over Tim Walls, reveling in the fact that Tesla is tanking, even though I think it...
	What's his face?
	Mr. Wonderful.
	Astutely noted that like 3% of retirement funds have invested or retirement funds have invested like 3% of their investments in Tesla.
	So in Minnesota.
	So congrats, Tim Walls, for being an idiot.
	Car salesman slaps roof, blows up.
	That's funny.
	It's funny what they think is making...
	It's slaps roof, and then you better show a liberal throwing a Molotov cocktail onto the Tesla.
	Then you got Superman not intervening, whistling away as Tesla burns.
	What was that last one here?
	Look at this one.
	This is crazy.
	I crashed stock markets.
	My daddy crashes spaceships.
	This is psychotic.
	That's very funny.
	And then we got him tweeting Bill Burr.
	Why Bill Burr was applauded by all of America after he humiliated Musk.
	I don't even know what that is.
	And there you go.
	Now he's making fun of Kyle Rittenhouse.
	That's Kyle Kalinske's descent into madness, people.
	And I don't know if it's audience capture.
	I don't use the word grifting very often, but if there were a time to use it, this would be the time.
	It's a grift.
	Kyle Kalinske has found his grift.
	He's found what resonates with his unhinged psychopath followers, and it's only going to encourage and promote more of it in real time.
	Encryptus says the most interesting thing about Bill Burr is that he's Billy Corgan's half-brother.
	Is he?
	Encryptus, is that a joke or is he really Billy Corgan's half-brother?
	I'm dropping a link for you in the private chat.
	Shut the front door.
	Okay, I'm going to copy this.
	This is a fun, interesting story.
	This is Billy Corrigan on Joe Rogan talking about it.
	Shut up!
	How long is the clip?
	I'm bringing up the clip in a second, people, once it gets through the ad here.
	You know what?
	I'll bring it up right now.
	Anyhow.
	That's wild.
	I mean, they do actually kind of look like each other, but I guess maybe to some extent, bald people.
	Nothing proven.
	Okay, let's see what we've got here.
	Let's see.
	How many times a day do you get bombarded by the whole Bill Burr thing?
	When it gets into the family and people I haven't talked to for 20 years.
	Then you have to break character.
	I don't see a liquid resemblance other than the fact that they have bald heads.
	But maybe it's because I know Billy Corgan and I kind of like Billy Corgan.
	Man, he looks much bigger than I ever thought he was.
	I remember being like a skinny dweeb, but I'll watch that after Encryptus.
	But we're not yet done, people.
	We're not yet done.
	Oh, it was Kevin O 'Leary right here talking about...
	We're going to go to the actual tweet of Kyle Kalinske reveling in celebrating Tim Wall's reveling in his own Minnesotites losing their investments to the glee of the people who want violence on the company that they don't like.
	Even though they loved it two years ago.
	And want it to go under, even though it's an American company that employs Americans, they love the misery.
	And I think part of them loves the misery, even those who suffer the misery, because it's sort of like a rite of passage.
	As to how right they are is directly correlated to the level of their suffering.
	When you set a car on fire, you should go to jail.
	You're a criminal.
	I don't think we have to talk about it in any other context.
	And all those cars have cameras in them, and those dealerships have cameras.
	You're beyond being stupid when you do that.
	You're going to go to jail, and you now have a government that just got their mandate.
	They can't wait to find idiots that do this.
	You're going to spend 5 to 20 years in prison if they get them on terrorism, which...
	From your mouth to Dan Bongino and Kash Patel's ears.
	What's his name?
	Kevin O 'Leary.
	I think it's a stretch.
	I've given Kevin O 'Leary a very hard time sometimes on Twitter.
	I regret nothing.
	They will have no parole, no shortened sentence.
	They'll rot in hell in prison for 20 years.
	And frankly, as far as I'm concerned, that's okay.
	Breaking in, shooting a car, sitting on fire, nothing to do with the politics, nothing to do with Tesla.
	You are a criminal and you should go to jail.
	And not just that, when it's politically motivated, it is terrorism by definition.
	I mean, some idiots try to compare the January 6th No.
	First of all, climbing a wall of a government building is not domestic terrorism.
	Second of all, I don't remember seeing very many Molotov cocktails thrown on January 6th, the most unarmed insurrection in the history of America.
	When it's politically motivated, targeting private or civilian infrastructure or civilians, it's terrorism by definition.
	I'm talking about Tim Walz and his comments about the Tesla stock.
	He says it gives him a boost to see that stock going down.
	That cool guy didn't check his portfolio and his own pension plan for state.
	It's beyond stupid what he did.
	He's talking down a 3.5% weighting in his own pension plan.
	I mean, what's the matter with that guy?
	He doesn't check the well-being of his own constituents in the state.
	That's their investment fund.
	What a bozo!
	I agree with Kevin O 'Leary.
	Quite on point.
	And you want to talk about how the left can't mean?
	Because they're a bunch of idiots and they don't have introspection.
	Yeah, this is more Kyle Kalinsky.
	If you saw my tweet earlier, you know where I'm going with this.
	They don't understand anything.
	They take themselves too seriously.
	They don't criticize their own thoughts to make sure that they even hold water.
	And for those of you who are listening on podcasts, it's a...
	They're using the MAGA image of the crying liberal, and they put a MAGA hat on them, and it says, boycott Bud Light, and the guy's crying, and you got your who radicalized you, a Germanic-looking face there, good-looking guy.
	Boycott Target, boycott NFL, and then the guy says, boycott Tesla, which makes no sense for the use of that meme, Kyle Kalinsky, you're an idiot.
	Go back to Blue Sky and enjoy whatever content you find on that platform that is prevalent there.
	And then after he says boycott Tesla, the MAGA guy starts crying.
	Do I need to leave this one up in order to highlight what is not analogous about this?
	First of all, when they boycotted Bud Light, or when there was the boycott of Bud Light, it was because Bud Light was politicizing and bringing in to the consumption of their product 2SLGBTQIA trans madness via Dylan Mulvaney.
	So people are right to...
	Thanks, don't mix trans ideology with the beer that I want to get wasted with on the weekend.
	Also, they demonize their own base.
	Remember that stupid woman in advertising who shits on the frat boys that are their customers.
	So yeah, you incorporate wild, radical political ideology into a product that is intended for unifying fun purposes?
	Boycott.
	Boycott Target.
	Why?
	Because they had the trans stuff all over the place targeting kids.
	Boycott the NFL.
	Why?
	Because they wanted to bring in bullshit racial politics into a game that is supposed to unify Americans.
	Enough.
	Boycott Tesla, the company which two years ago was the godsend because it was going to go green, save American jobs, save the environment by the left's own rationale, and now they want to boycott it.
	Why?
	Because they disagree with the politics of...
	The guy who's trying to make government as efficient as his companies.
	Oh yeah, and also, by the way, even when people boycotted Bud Light, Target, and NFL, no one was Molotov cocktailing Target locations.
	You had Chris Rock shooting up a bunch of cans.
	That was his own private property on his own property with his own firearms.
	Not the same.
	So yeah, even when the right does boycott, they don't resort to violence because they're not dumb fascists, is basically what the word is.
	So Kyle, you're an idiot on all fronts.
	Congratulations.
	What else do we have here that I wanted to bring up?
	There were a couple of things that I wanted to bring up about Canada before we go.
	Maybe I'm going to save the Canadian stuff for our VivaBarnesLaw.locals.com afterparty.
	After we go raid.
	Hold on.
	Who are we raiding?
	Let me just double check my notes.
	We are raiding Kim Iverson.
	Again, I believe she's at.
	Let me see here.
	Is that the right link?
	Hold on.
	Who am I rating?
	Oh, please send a link, smiley face.
	Okay, I'll get the link.
	I forget who.
	I don't know who we're rating, but you'll follow the raid to the next stream and let them know who sent you there.
	If you're not coming over to vivabarneslaw.locals.com for the after party.
	The suicidal empathy and the...
	Lack of introspection and self-reflection leads to idiots making idiotic decisions, implementing self-destructive domestic and foreign policy, and then virtue signaling to the world how they're better than everybody else when they break the law,
	when they implement policy that destroys the very society in which they live, but they want to sob their way through a city council meeting when it's announced that they're going to have to implement or enforce federal immigration law if they want to get federal funds.
	Listen to this.
	Listen to this.
	Thank you for what you said.
	Thank you for your comments.
	This is a veritable struggle session.
	I think I'm using the word right.
	Listen to this.
	I'm going to shut my big mouth.
	I cannot begin to imagine how difficult it is for you.
	I'm going to shut my big mouth.
	The argument, and I know there's no malintend to it, that we would risk federal or state funding if I don't sign up for this.
	It is a tumultuous day and age, and this is a day I hate sitting in a seat, but my city's not for sale.
	Listen to this part.
	Barson, Barson, thank you for your words and thank you.
	I can't stand behind this as an immigrant,
	the only immigrant sitting in this council.
	Because although this isn't about me particularly, I have been in that position.
	And I can't.
	I can't even express how heavy this is in my heart.
	Listen to this part right now.
	And in my mind.
	Knowing that the majority of us that come...
	As immigrants, we don't come here to commit crimes.
	Of course, there are crimes out there, people that commit crimes, and everybody that commits a crime needs to be accountable for it, regardless if they're illegal or not.
	Can you make...
	But this notion that...
	Can you understand the absolute idiocy of that statement?
	Everybody that commits a crime needs to be held accountable for it, whether they're illegal or not.
	Everybody that commits a crime needs to be accountable for it, regardless if they're illegal or not.
	Everybody that commits a crime needs to be held accountable for it.
	Illegally entering a foreign country is a crime.
	What is the accountability for that?
	It's so wildly insane that there is almost no way to respond to it.
	Everybody that commits a crime needs to be held accountable.
	You enter the country illegally, you need to be held accountable.
	Okay, well, not that way.
	And you notice the classic, there's lots of crimes out there.
	Why would we treat an illegal immigrant who commits a crime any differently than a citizen?
	Well, because they're illegal immigrants not here legally or on potential visas that are subject to certain terms and conditions as a result of the privilege being afforded to stay in a country.
	Legally.
	Illegally are fundamentally different than citizens.
	You can't deport a citizen who breaks the law.
	The same cannot be said of someone who illegally broke the law to come in illegally and then other breaks the law on other non-illegal entry prospects as well when they get in.
	It's...
	Suicidal empathy?
	Homicidal empathy?
	What does Sfihansa say here?
	Let me see something.
	We've got something in our local community.
	It says, It's not the left can't meme per se.
	It's that their viewpoints rely on carefully constructed denial of reality to a far greater extent than any of the cults or religions they seek to supplant.
	This doesn't lend itself to simple, easily conveyed messages because if you rely on your viewers to see things as they are, Without providing several layers of carefully selected context, they'll interpret it the wrong way.
	The left can't meme because memes are the antithesis of how they communicate.
	We'll have to go reflect on that afterwards in more detail when we take it over to the vivabarneslaw.locals.com afterparty.
	Hold on one second.
	All right, here we go.
	We're going to raid.
	It's going to be Iverson who starts at 5 o 'clock.
	So you can either come back after deciding to support us at vivabarneslaw.locals.com for the after party.
	But we're going to go raid Kim.
	And the way I do it, make sure that I do this right.
	Go like this.
	Kim Iverson starts at 5 o 'clock.
	What's on her menu for tonight?
	Hold on, I just had it open here.
	The ultimate COVID hoax.
	Why RFK Jr.'s researcher says the virus never existed.
	And if you're interested in hearing that, let's go here.
	I go like this.
	Forward slash raid link bam and confirm raid.
	There you go, people.
	So go check it out.
	We got one more.
	We got one more crumble rant that I just noticed came in.
	Mexican Trumper says...
	Tesla gets above 20% of its parts from Mexico.
	When they boycott Tesla, they also promote unemployment in Mexico with expected consequences of cheap labor migration to US.
	I doubt that that's the actual intended, their desired outcome for boycotting Tesla.
	They're just idiots.
	They are just ideologically motivated, ideological, and in fact domestic terrorists who want to Punish anybody and everybody that allies with their ideological adversary, and they don't care how much destruction it causes.
	Speaking of which, do I want to do this here?
	No, we'll do this.
	We'll do this over on vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
	Let me see what's going on in the chat, and we'll have a bit of a...
	here.
	I did it too early, says Hera933.
	We're going over to do our Viva Barnes Law afterparty at 4.30.
	But anyways, by the way, next week, I'm going to be at my official time.
	What day is it today?
	It's Thursday?
	I'm going to be at my official time next week, which is going to be 4 o 'clock.
	And so that's going to be good.
	What else was I about to say?
	Stick around.
	I've got, I pre-recorded yet another fantastic interview this morning with a guest that I cannot mention that I will publish on Saturday.
	So stick around for that.
	Tomorrow, tomorrow show, people.
	We're starting with Owen Schroyer, who's going to talk about what's been going on with him.
	The swatting, if you haven't heard.
	So starting with Owen Troyer tomorrow.
	And Sam Cooper, the Canadian journalist who's been talking about Chinese infiltration in Canadian government.
	And there's been yet another massive fentanyl bust up in Canada.
	So Sam Cooper, if you don't know him, you're going to want to know him.
	He's amazing.
	So he's coming on afterwards.
	So it's going to be intro with Owen Troyer talking about what's going on.
	And Sam Cooper comes in after that.
	So tomorrow is going to be a wild, amazing, fantastic show.
	As was today, GAD is a national, international treasure.
	So if you are rating Kim Iverson, stick around.
	Do it.
	She starts at 5. You have time to come over to vivabarneslaw.locals.com if you are not.
	If you're going to stick around or not, either way.
	And one way or the other, I shall see you all tomorrow.
	Before you leave, two things.
	Get not just GAD SAD's book, people.
	Although I'm going to give you that link again.
	Link to Gad's book.
	Get that one.
	But also, if you didn't know, I wrote a children's book called Louis the Lobster Returns to the Sea.
	And you can go get that one.
	No one has ever regretted getting a book.
	I don't think.
	Unless it's one of those indoctrination books that they've been prohibiting from being displayed to children in schools.
	Those you can regret buying.
	But go get Link to Louis...
	Enjoy the typo.
	We're getting right there.
	All right, and now we're going to go over to vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
	Thank you all for being here.
	I will see you tomorrow if you're not coming to Locals.
	Kim Iverson, 5 o 'clock.
	Enjoy the raid.

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