Elon Musk’s Cryptic Midnight Text Led Conservative Thinker Through Canyon Security Gauntlet

Liberty Check

• Behavioral scientist Gad Saad reveals secret late-night meeting with Elon Musk involving multiple security checkpoints in Austin canyon
• Saad explains how ‘suicidal empathy’ is destroying Western civilization while conservatives maintain higher happiness levels
• Musk continues amplifying Saad’s warnings about progressive ideology undermining American freedoms and cultural survival

Behavioral scientist and author Gad Saad pulled back the curtain on a previously untold story about a clandestine late-night meeting with billionaire Elon Musk, describing a series of security checkpoints and mysterious escorts that made him feel like he’d stepped into a spy thriller.

Speaking on the “Hang Out with Sean Hannity” podcast, Saad revealed how Musk sent him a cryptic text with nothing but an Austin, Texas address that set off a chain of events worthy of a James Bond film.

“I receive a one-line text from Elon at around 9:30 at night, the address of his house in Austin,” Saad explained. “Driver comes, 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.”

After being dropped off in the dark canyon around 10 p.m., Saad spotted a black van and made his way toward it, unsure of what awaited him.

“I said, ‘Well maybe that’s my only shot here.’ I walk up to the van. It’s completely different. The door, the window goes down. ‘Name, sir?’ Gad Saad. ‘OK, keep walking up and then there’ll be a gate that opens.’ I keep walking, the gate opens, a guy kind of materializes,” he recounted, describing the security operative as appearing “out of the trees.”

The account offered a rare window into Musk’s private security operation and the elaborate measures protecting one of America’s most important voices for free speech. After this final checkpoint, Saad was instructed to follow the mysterious figure.

“10 seconds later, I’m hugging it out with Elon,” Saad said, describing how he later shared the experience with his wife. “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.'”

The meeting between Musk and Saad isn’t surprising given their aligned concerns about Western civilization’s trajectory. Musk has repeatedly amplified Saad’s posts on X, particularly his urgent warnings about what he calls “suicidal empathy” — the dangerous idea that excessive compassion is undermining America’s survival instincts.

Earlier this month, Musk shared a powerful message from Saad that crystallized conservative concerns about the left’s assault on traditional values.

“Every action that I partake is animated by two ideals: Truth and freedom. Seeing the endless attacks on both ideals throughout the West is soul-crushing,” Saad wrote in the post Musk amplified.

“We did not lose a war of aggression. We decided that giving up our women, our children, our heritage, our society, our religions, our culture, our safety, our liberties, and our freedoms was LESS important than protecting the honour of those who wish to enslave us, kill us, vanquish us.”

“It was all self-inflicted via parasitic suicidal empathy. Remember my words. We have signed up for endless strife and conflict.”

During his conversation with Hannity, Saad dove deeper into why conservatives consistently report higher levels of happiness than progressives, pointing to decades of research that backs up what many already know instinctively.

“I offer a speculative explanation, but I think it makes sense,” he said.

“The conservative wakes up in the morning with a sense of existential comfort. It may not be a perfect society, but we have freedom, we have liberties, we have all sorts of foundational values that are worth conserving, and it’s conservative.”

“On the other hand,” he continued, “the progressive wakes up with existential angst. We live in a transphobic, Islamophobic, misogynistic, racist, bigoted [society].”

The contrast couldn’t be clearer. Conservatives wake up grateful for American freedoms and ready to defend them, while progressives manufacture grievances and wallow in manufactured victimhood that leaves them perpetually dissatisfied.

Our freedoms depend on staying vigilant.