Gad Saad tells Sean Hannity the story of the first time he met Elon Musk — and it’s something lifted from the pages of a spy thriller novel.
SAAD: “Can I tell you a very quick story about how we first met?”
HANNITY: “Yeah.”
SAAD: “I don’t think he’d mind this.”
“I receive a one-line text from Elon at around 930 at night.”
“The address of his house in Austin.”
HANNITY: “Wow.”
SAAD: “Driver comes and picks me up. I go through these canyons and he goes, we’re here, sir.”
“I’m like, we’re here? Where? It’s like in the middle of a canyon. I can’t see anything.”
“He goes, well that’s where I was told to drop you.”
“So I get out of the car, it’s pitch...it’s around 10 o’clock at night now.”
“And I see on top of the hill a black van. I said, well, maybe that’s my only shot here.”
“I walk up to the van. It’s completely tinted, the door or the window goes down.”
“Name, sir?”
“Gad Saad.”
“Okay, keep walking up and then there’ll be a gate that opens.”
“I keep walking, the gate opens. A guy kind of materializes, one of those transformers, he comes out of the trees.”
“Name, sir?”
“Gad Saad.”
“Follow me.”
“10 seconds later, I’m hugging it out with Elon.”
“So my wife is awake at 2 in the morning when we finish up. She wants to know how it went...”
“So I tell her the story and I said to her, I think I’m James Bond. She goes, I think you’re James Bond also.”
“Basically, we put ourselves out there. We face a lot of hate. You face a lot of hate. But the magic...the majesty of life, you grab it by the horn.”
“I get to meet Sean Hannity. Had I been a stay in your lane professor, I would have continued publishing academic papers that will be read by 6 people.”
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