Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2263 - Gad Saad
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2263 - Gad Saad' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-01-28. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2263 - Gad Saad

Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
Joe Rogan, you're gorgeous.
You are too, you beautiful bastard.
Come on.
Can I read you something?
Oh, okay.
You want to read me something?
This is from my son, just before I came on the show.
Hi, Daddy.
I was wondering if the show will be live anywhere and tell Joe that I
say hello, and I love his show.
Oh.
You just made his life.
How old is he?
Well, last week was his bar mitzvah.
Oh, so he's 13.
He's 13.
Okay.
And it was...
That's about the age you shouldn't be listening to my show yet.
You used to disturb me when I would meet my youngest daughter's friends
when they were before high school.
Yeah.
And they would say they love my podcast.
I was like, geez, this is really not for you.
Like some of these subjects, not for you.
But the kids today, they're not 12-year-olds when I was a 12-year-old.
Yeah.
These kids have a far more advanced understanding of the world for good or for
bad.
Yeah.
Probably.
I mean, I don't know if it's good or bad.
Because, I mean, I think our childhood, we were more exposed to things than our
parents
were.
I don't necessarily think that's bad.
So why would I think it's bad for kids today?
I think the explosion, though.
Yeah.
You could go on and see porn that you and I don't even know they exist.
Yeah.
It is an issue.
Yeah.
That most certainly is a problem.
But I don't know if it's worse or better.
Yeah.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Like, I would rather have the loss of innocence that I had as a 14-year-old
than the loss
of innocence my parents had.
I think they just lived in a more ignorant time.
And with knowledge, you're also going to get all the bad stuff.
Like, I see a lot of assassination videos.
Okay.
You know, it's funny you say the age of innocence because I've always said that
the two things
that protect me in life were my Belgian shepherds, whom I love.
And I saw, by the way, that you were talking recently about Belgian Malinois.
Yeah.
So my kids have grown up with—by the way, the Belgian Malinois is one of four
types of
Belgian shepherds.
The only difference across the four types is that the Belgian Malinois has
short hair,
whereas the ones that we had have long hair.
They even look more wolfish, more intimidating.
Scary dogs.
And so anyways, so I always said that the two things that protect me when I
sort of entered
the sanctity of my home was the love of my family, my Belgian shepherds, and
the innocence
of my children.
Because, you know, the world out there is ugly.
And then you go back home.
That's true.
And so once that becomes polluted because they just know more, I feel like I'm
losing
part of them.
Hmm.
That's interesting.
I don't think you should think that way.
I think they're human beings and you should want them to know things.
It's just that we enjoy the position of being the person that has all the deep,
dark knowledge
of the world and dealing with this innocent child that wants to watch Dora the
Explorer.
You know, Dora.
Peppa Pig.
Yeah.
Peppa Pig.
All those kind of shows.
And there's, you know, there's something beautiful in watching a little person
learn stuff about
the world and shocking when they find out about like murders and danger and
scary things.
And, you know, and then their realm of knowledge expands to, you know.
What amazes me is seeing my children get a political awakening.
So my son, who's really precocious, he's 13.
My daughter's 16.
She wasn't as into it.
But during the last U.S. elections, maybe because of the TikTok stuff and so on,
she became,
she sort of woke up to it and she would come to me and say, you know, why do we
like Trump?
Why don't we like?
And so I saw an awakening in her that my son already had.
I mean, he literally will sit with me, watch.
I mean, Tucker's no longer on, but he would watch Tucker with me and have
conversations with
me when he was 11, 12.
My daughter came a bit later into the game, but it's so rewarding to see them
wake up to
these things and have meaningful conversations with me on these topics.
It was beautiful.
God, I didn't know anything about politics blissfully, blissfully unaware when
I was 13.
Is that right?
Right.
But I did worry about Russia.
When I was in high school, everybody was terrified before the fall of the
Soviet Union.
We were terrified that we were going to go to war with Russia.
It was like a thing that was hovering over our head every day.
Yeah.
That was kind of all I knew about politics, like Russia bad, United States good.
Russia bad, wants to kill United States.
Like that's what we were basically told.
All the movies like Red Dawn, you know, Russia invades America.
Can I incorporate some professorial elements to what you just said?
Please do.
So one of my intellectual heroes is John von Neumann, who was a Hungarian
Jewish polymath.
He was a mathematician.
He was a game theorist.
And one of the things that he did, he was one of the pioneers of using game
theory.
Do you know what game theory is?
Yes.
In economics?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yes.
Do you want me to explain it for you?
Yeah, please.
So a classic example of a game theory context would be the prisoner's dilemma,
right?
You capture two prisoners, you capture two prisoners, you take them apart, as
the cops do.
Each of them can either squeal, confess or not.
And depending on whether, so there are four possibilities.
Both can confess, one confess, the other one.
So it's a two by two matrix.
And there are different payoffs in each of these matrices.
And then the question is, what is the optimal behavior?
So that's called game theory, because you use game theoretic framework to model
what should be some optimal behavior.
Well, in the context of the Cold War, that's when game theory was first being
applied, that the Russians or the Soviets can nuke us or not.
We can nuke them or not.
And so there are all these models that were developed.
So, for example, mutually assured destruction is a outshoot of understanding
game theory.
And so for the ones who are watching the show, John von Neumann is the
definition of how I think an intellectual should be.
Very broad thinker.
He can both discuss mathematics or economics or game theory.
He died, I think, too young, but he got his Ph.D. at the age of 23.
Check him out, John von Neumann.
Wow.
23?
23 years old from Hungary.
Incredible guy.
People like that just make you feel like such a dummy.
I mean, I was impressed with myself because I got my Ph.D. in my late 20s.
That's still pretty good.
Well, he beat me by many, many years.
So I'm a little ant compared to him.
It's bizarre when you see, like, young teenagers that are in college already
because they've gone through their entire high school course by the time they're
14, 15 years old.
Yeah.
Now at 16, they're in college.
Yeah.
So strange.
Of course, as you know, the danger of that is that you're not at the right
social developmental phase.
Of course.
So, yes, you can solve calculus really easily, but you can't speak with people
who are four years older than you.
So you end up being...
Isn't that crazy?
Yeah.
So I'm not sure if I support this kind of fast tracking because there's an
element of just being with the right people at the right age.
That is true.
But also when you have an extraordinary mind, you want to give that
extraordinary mind fuel.
You have someone who caught lightning in a bottle.
Yeah.
You know, and you want to help that.
Yeah.
I mean, maybe there's a way to do it where the parents come with the kid to
school or something like that.
But isn't it strange, though, that you and I at our age, the idea of talking to
someone four years older than us is like, so what?
Yeah.
Like, what's the big deal?
Isn't it weird?
Like, the accelerated learning that you have as a child is so rapid and so
profound that a four-year age gap is nuts.
Well, speaking of accelerated learning, my biggest regret, I may have discussed
this with you before or not, but my parental regret is that we never taught our
children all of the languages that we speak at home.
So I speak, my mother tongue is Arabic, and I also learned French because from
Lebanon and then moving to Montreal.
Then I learned English, and I also speak Hebrew, and then my wife, because she's
Lebanese-Armenian, she speaks Armenian.
True.
So between the two of us, we speak five languages, but here's the rub.
If I speak to them in Arabic or Hebrew, my wife won't understand.
If she speaks to them in Armenian, I won't understand.
So we just settled on French and English.
So rather than them now being these super exotic, you know, five-language-speaking
kids, they only speak the very vanilla French and English.
Yeah, but it's still two.
Well, 99% of Americans.
Compared to Americans, I agree.
They don't even master one language.
Barely no English.
We have separate versions of English.
Actually, I was...
Slangs and dialects.
I posted on X that while I was coming to Texas, I'm also soon going to South
Carolina, to Georgia, to Florida, to Mississippi.
And so I said, if I'm going to fit in in the South, since I'm doing this big,
what are some absolute must expressions that I must have?
So the ones I came up with, and you'll add to that, I'm fixing to leave.
Bless your heart.
Bless your heart.
Y'all.
Y'all.
All y'all.
All y'all.
That's all I got.
Yeah, don't use any of those.
No?
No.
Why?
Too cliche?
They're going to know you're faking it.
They're going to know I'm faking it because I'm not tall enough to be a Texan.
There's some short Texans.
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But the thing is, like, saying it like that, you can't.
If you don't have a Southern accent and you're throwing y'alls around,
people are like, get out of here with that.
It's just a weird one.
And not that the accent here is so dense.
Like, the Texas accent is probably much stronger in the rural areas or in small
cities and stuff like that.
Austin is pretty mixed with a bunch of people from all over the place.
So I think just even the general Texas accent here is fairly muted.
Do you agree with that, Jamie?
Does that make sense?
I mean, there's definitely y'alls are throwing around, but that's about it.
Right, but it's not a Texas accent like you hear in other parts of the state.
There's other parts of the state.
You talk to people like, that's a motherfucking Texas accent.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, there's a very specific way that they talk that's pretty cool.
But it's very distinct, you know?
It makes you know where you're at.
Like New Yorkers.
Like, if you're in New York and you go to an Italian deli,
and you're talking to this fucking guy, and he's making you a sandwich, you
know?
Like my friend Giovanni.
Like, it's fun.
It's like they're talking the way they talk.
It's a very specific way of talking.
It's cool.
I was going to say that you're going to get me in trouble,
because I think I mentioned to