Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2148 - Gad Saad
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2148 - Gad Saad' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-05-09. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2148 - Gad Saad

Joe Rogan podcast check it out the Joe Rogan experience trained by day Joe Rogan
podcast by
night all day how you doing what's going on man good to see you 10th episode
crazy
unbelievable what are the odds short of your regular crew am I in the yeah
there's very few
people that have had 10 episodes it's a small handful for sure I mean that I
should put that
as the top thing on my CV all the other stuff is bullshit 10 time on Joe Rogan
drop the mic this is
how out of the corporate world I am I don't even know what a CV is I don't know
what it stands for
I know people say it I know what it means but I don't know what it stands for
let me tell you what
an academic CV looks like sure what just what does it stand for curriculum vitae
ah okay uh you basically
in academia you'll start with your education all your degrees all of your
positions that you've
held I was assistant professor here from here then then all of your journal
publications all of your
books all of your conference art you know and so on right so it can end up
being a pretty beefy CV I
think mine is about 47 pages long oh my goodness look at you you accomplished
speaking of and managed to
stay logical how did you do that oh yeah a new book dropping out dropping on
May 14th on happiness the
sad truth two A's about happiness eight secrets for leading a good life enjoy
it how have I been so
productive how have you managed to I mean people have gotten annoyed at you but
you've of you've somehow
another avoided like a full-scale cancellation well with your positions it's
kind of amazing it really
it truly is it's I'm kind of like the vote is it velcro dawn the teflon teflon
dawn velcro is the opposite
right right uh I'm nothing sticks they've tried to cancel me in all sorts of
ways but that speaks by the
way to one of the powerful reasons why tenure despite the fact that a lot of
people despise the concept of
tenure oh it's just a bunch of lazy academics who are going to be deadwood for
the next 30 years
but if I didn't have the protection of tenure I'd be gone long ago now that
doesn't mean that I still
haven't suffered many consequences right so I haven't gotten other jobs that I
would have otherwise gotten
because of how irreverent I am you know the death threats so now after October
7th it almost became
impossible for me to go on campus because first of all you know I'm high
profile my university has a
particular demographic reality and so there are consequences to speaking out
but so you you can't
go on campus literally I mean I have gone but during the the points when there
were a lot of protests
outside you know the campus and so on or on campus because that our campus is
an urban campus so it's
hard to say where where the school begins and where the the city is right uh
you know you have death
to jews and the free free palestine yeah intifada and uh from the river to the
sea and there's 800 of
them screaming and you're going to come in many of them know who you are they
know that i'm not very
supportive of their positions and so it's going to be you know a bit
challenging so on a few cases i've
i did it via zoom other times i had to have security with me so i would i'd
have to check into security and
they'd have to walk with me to class and so on that's not a good thing i'll
tell you another quick
story if i may please about what happened after october 7th so i'll first talk
about
what happened in lebanon so the day that we escaped from lebanon for those of
your viewers
who don't know about us we're lebanese jews we were there until the start of
the civil war we were
there in the first year of the civil war and then we had to leave because it
became impossible to
be jewish in lebanon when we left that day from it was from beirut to copenhagen
copenhagen to montreal
as we cleared the airspace of lebanon the captain i i discussed this in chapter
one of my previous
book the parasitic mind uh he said okay we're now out of lebanese airspace and
so my i said my wife my
mother pulls out a pendulant with the star of david puts it around me my my
neck and says now you can
wear this be proud and not hide your identity now that's in the past but now i'm
going to link it to
the current reality about three weeks after october 7th my wife and son came to
pick me up from a cafe
where i was working on my laptop my my wife had picked up my son who was
playing a soccer match
in the east end of the city and so as i got into the car he says daddy if you
had come to where i was
playing soccer today and you were wearing a star of david you'd be dead so 1975
a star of david is put
around me and now i can wear it proudly 45 years later i better not wear a star
of david in montreal
canada that doesn't both too well at a kid's soccer game yeah because the
demographic reality in that
neighborhood is such that a star of david would be viewed as provocative incitement
what's crazy to me is
what's crazy is regardless of how you feel about how the israeli military and
the army is pursuing the
war in gaza regardless of that the blatant just out in the open anti-semitism
that we see today
it's unbelievable it's like nothing i've ever seen before like like roaches
coming out of the woodwork
like what like you see it all over social media and it's like this if this is
september
and not october like if this is just you would be you would be shunned
everybody would be like this is
horrible how the could you say this how you're openly anti-semitic you're
openly blaming the jews for
all the world's problem this is crazy this is nazi and yet you're seeing it
everywhere now when those
teachers were in front of congress when those principles of those universities
were in front
of congress and they were saying that it's not harassment to say death to the
jews unless it's
actionable which is the craziest mental verbal gymnastics i have ever heard
anyone say that's in
that position and a position of being the head of harvard it was so crazy to
watch it's so crazy
to see it's almost like we live in an alternative timeline like we entered into
a new dimension like
in our sleep we woke up we're in a new place you know nothing should surprise
me given the history that
i have growing up in the middle east but i was taken aback after october 7th at
the jew hatred that i was
exposed to now my positions are really not inflammatory so for example i'll say
things like uh you know i'm
i'm worried about my i have a lot of extended family in israel right so after
the october 7th happened
for me to just kind of call around to make sure that none of my cousins and
their children and
aunts and so on no one was harmed will take a while well that itself the fact
that i cared about my
family was incitement was i'm a zionist i'm a baby killer right i am personally
responsible for the idf
killing any innocent children but it's not just that it's coming at you from
all directions so in the past you
could say okay islamic sources are going to send you jew hatred and i'm used to
that you could say
the neo-nazi alt-right types you know jews will not replace us they're coming
after me you've got
of course the academic progressive left types who are also anti-zionist which
is just code sweet word
for anti-jewish and so everywhere you turn there is jew hatred and it's so
normalized now of course
in part it is emboldened by the fact that a lot of them are anonymous they don't
put their real names
so they can take the liberty to be this orgiastically you know jew hater but it
just it it's so
disenchanting to see that that guy could be my gardener he could be my surgeon
he could be my
dentist i don't know who he is but there are millions of those folks who hold
those beliefs
it's unbelievable i think a lot of them are fake as well i think a lot of them
are russian and chinese
trolls i think there's a disturbing amount of them that's responsible for uh
taking this kind of
discourse and and pushing it to a much higher level and and making it more
ubiquitous i really really
believe that and there's a lot of data to support that and i think that's part
of what's going on with
social media it's definitely a big part of what's going on with twitter and
tick tock and a lot of
these things where you see these very inflammatory messages that seem to be
pushed they're they're
they're pushed through and promoted and like to the fact that you get them all
the time they they show
up in your feed all the time even if you're not subscribed to these even if you're
not following
these people you'll find this disturbing content will show up in your feed and
i really firmly believe
that we're being manipulated i really do and i think there's a lot of these
young kids that are on these
campuses that are very malleable they're very easily influenced and they don't
need they don't i mean
so many i'm sure you've seen constantine kissin from trigonometry he's done
these interviews with
these people these protests and so many of them are completely ignorant they
have no idea what they're
just doing that because they think they're a good person yeah they're putting
up their flag of virtue
by saying free palestine from the river to the sea and they don't even know
what that means yeah like
what do you do you know what you're saying you're saying you're saying wipe out
israel is that what
you're saying not only that in a lot of cases they're supporting regimes or ideologies
that would
be perf perfectly antithetical to their main identity so right we're for palestine
chickens for
Kentucky fried chicken or i like to use geese for foie gras because i'm from
montreal uh i mean
imagine if you present yourself to the world with your queer identity which is
great good for you
and now you decide okay let me see should i be supporting tel aviv which is one
of the most
queer friendly places i mean short of montreal new york san francisco tel aviv
is right up there so you
would think that if my key identity my definitional identity is my queerness
that i'm certainly putting
all my chips with tel aviv no it's with queers for palestine so that's exactly
what parasitic thinking
is right and i think i really do think that's supported by other countries i
think they they
realize how vulnerable and idiotic a lot of americans are and they're just
pushing that and whether you
realize it or not social media even if they're saying something ridiculous it's
very influential and
they can just move the boundaries a little bit by having the most extreme
content the most ridiculous
things be so common then less extreme content that would ordinarily be
considered ridiculous now becomes
accepted as normalized yeah yeah which is what you're seeing yeah exactly uh
can i point i mean you
alluded to it earlier about you know what the idf might be doing can i just
mention a few things about
that sure and i'm hardly the spokesperson of the idf but just it's an idea that
i've been toying with
and i'll pitch it here for the first time so you know this notion of equality
of opportunities with
yes equality of outcomes right typically we we link it to all of the woke stuff
right so equality of
opportunities is great equality of outcomes is a is a cancer to to human
dignity okay let's now apply
that concept equality of outcomes to war casualties so i think this is what
happens when people say oh
but the idf is being grotesque because the currency that then matters becomes
how many dead on each side
equality of outcome but let me change it to a different moral currency okay let's
talk about intent so for
example in in this in the uh justice system you could have a person who is
found guilty of involuntarily
vehicle vehicle vehicular homicide and he kills for four people okay so four
are dead so that's equality of
outcome forward died versus someone who took out a hit on his entire family his
his brother sister and
parents so that he can gain win the insurance money but it's an undercover
operation the cops catch you
even though in that case there we