Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2012 - Gad Saad
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2012 - Gad Saad' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-07-26. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2012 - Gad Saad

The Joe Rogan experience train by day Joe Rogan podcast by night all day
Oh, oh my god, I'm excited to see you see it's always great to see you
I think this is the ninth time I appear
So am I entering kind of Hall of Fame style? Yeah, there's like after five
anybody with more than five
That should be like the top line on my CV forget about all the other bullshit
nine times on Joe Rogan
We've had some fun conversations we have before we start today July 25th is the
release of my latest book
Here's a copy for you. Thank you very much
The sad truths about happiness eight secrets for leading the good life. Boom.
All right
Please read it. I will enjoy it a lot of you do the audiobook
Yeah, I swear to God the number one thing I was worried that you were going to
ask me what's that and you lead off with that?
So here's what happened after does it so he has a beautiful voice I
Insisted I said Joe Rogan berated me on his show for maybe 15 minutes
Listen to him. They pitched it to the audio publisher. The audio publisher said
sorry
We do in-house narration so I think for the next book I'll put it as part of
the contract
Yeah, it has to be they're silly. They're silly especially in you're a public
figure like there's
Hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours of you talking indeed
now when people want to hear your words
They want to hear them through your mouth and it's personal stories. Yes. It
makes no sense. I'm sold
I believe me I don't the fight I know but it's such a it's such a silly fight
to have when someone's a professional public speaker
Yeah, like yourself like doesn't make any sense with a very velvety voice velvety
smooth and you know who's closer to the subject matter right and come on
I know the truth behind the words like you're gonna say these things
If you're talking about especially like real life experiences, you're saying
them as you I lead off by the way and in
First chapter to talk about sort of existential happiness about how I came very
close to being aborted in Lebanon
I don't want somebody else to be telling that right right right right right
right of course your story is wild
Yeah, you know, um
What I find about people like yourself that have been through
Like like a really scary thing really scary like genuinely scary scary scary
threats for threats of your life war zone stuff
Folks like yourself have so much less patience for nonsense
Exactly, and that's why I sometimes can appear irascible
Yeah, and I go after because sometimes people will say you know when I meet you
you seem so much nicer
And warmer than how you are on social media, but i'm not trying to be mean on
social media is that i'm pissed off at the bullshit
And so it comes across as though, you know i'm cantankerous and combative, but
i'm just really fighting. Hopefully the good fight
The real problem with social media is the problem with human beings. It's
tribal group think yeah
And it it overwhelms these groups of people that you associate with and then
narratives get formed and you can't
Stray outside those narratives you can't even look at
Objective reality you can't look at data you can't look at it. It just becomes
so crazy at the
Ideology and the adherence that ideology trumps everything trumps the truth it
trumps
You're you're willing as long as the politicians on your side to ignore
Craziness corruption
Horrible shit you ignore all of it perfect example of that. I hate to say that
i've seen his feed
meathead from all in the family rob reiner have you ever gone to his
i've read a couple of tweets and i'm like i'm out
I love his work too much. I know i know it's hard to then like his work when he
is so
overwhelmingly
Obsessed with with trump stephen king is another guy who yeah
Fits that description something happens to old liberals with a ton of money
It's like
Something happens to those old creative types. Yeah, it's just you know, it
doesn't make sense
It doesn't make sense that you're arguing with people online about it all day
long
If you're rob reiner or if you're stephen king
Like putting you know nasty tweets out. It's like come on. So I actually I I
wrote maybe it was shameless plug-in of my book
but I
Responded to rob brown. I said let me send you a copy of my book man
There's so much that you have to be happy about stop being mired endlessly in
vitriol
I mean, that's all he does. I mean imagine this guy
How many things he's got to be grateful about he's a creative guy a talented
guy and he spends all day
Obsessing on issues that ultimately he's got no control over well people viewed
trump as an existential threat to the the
The very fundamentals of the country they thought that he was going to come in
and he was going to represent
Corruption
On a level that we've never seen before
But the problem with doing that and saying that is that it opens the door to
examining all the other corruption
Like how much corruption is there? Yeah, like how much what do you who's how
much money you guys making?
Where's this money coming from?
There's so much corruption that's readily available that once you start opening
the door to calling someone a monster
Then everyone gets to look at you and go hey, but what about you guys like what
are you doing?
What about what about drone bombings?
Let's talk about some real problems. So what about the fentanyl crisis?
You know, what about the the borders where like criminals are coming through
like how many are being sent back?
What's the numbers? Yeah, what's the numbers?
I mean a lot of them are good people that just want to find a better way to
live and good for them
And I would do it I would do it, too
If I could sneak across into america and be assimilated I would fucking do it
Why wouldn't you if you if you got a bad roll of the dice and you're living in
somewhere that's less favorable
And you get the opportunity to just all you have to do is get across the river
and they let you in
But how many of those people shouldn't be here? How many of those people are
dangerous? How many what's the number?
It's not zero. What's the number?
Well, I could tell you that
We've talked about us in the past when we talked about people who come from
certain cultures where there is rampant anti-semitism
Yes, and so if you let people that are coming from cultures where when they're
pulled
Somewhere between 90 to 99 percent of them will exhibit
Rampant jew hatred
It doesn't take much of a
Social sociologist or you know survey analyst to recognize that out of all
those people that are coming in
You're going to have an increase of jew hatred yesterday. I was out with some
friends
Here in austin and so one of them asked me have you have you seen an uptake on
uh, you know, jew hatred
Are you exposed to more? I say it's it's it's endless
It's not I mean, it's usually on social media
Do you think it's ramped up or do you think now that elon has uh taken over
twitter and allowed much more free?
Hard for me to tell I don't I really don't know but it there is kind of a
normalized now
Many of them are behind anonymous account of course, but there is kind of a
cavalier
Normalization of just saying so for example, I think someone had retweeted, you
know
Promotional thing about my book and someone said, you know, why are you
promoting the jew?
You're like my god this this guy could be your your
Son's teacher. He could be your the grocer at the store
You know what? I have a real concern with that and I also have a real concern
with
vested entities like
Organizations that would want people to be at each other's throats
Stirring up things with fake social media posts because this is a real problem
that's happening in the world right now, right?
you know, um someone um
tweeted a bunch of different examples, uh of where
Dozens and dozens of accounts are saying the same inflammatory things with the
exact same wordage exact and they're all like, you know
They have numbers and letters and their accounts like just random accounts
And you know, you go to their page. It looks kind of real. They have a photo
There's like them with a flag. It's like and you go through it
But you get this sense like oh, you're you're a bot
Like you're not even a real person like so you you're an agent of
You're stirring up
So there's a certain aspect of our culture. I don't know what the percentage is
But there's a certain aspect of the conversations online that are being
flavored
By fake accounts that are designed to get people upset with each other. Yeah,
it's like
Psychological warfare on a level that no one anticipated and no one's prepared
for
Because when you have the two things we already discussed like this adherence
to the ideology no matter what no matter what
Like there's no you can't objectively logically defend any of the things that
are in in opposition of it
And then you have this so are you I noticed
I mean, obviously we follow each other on twitter. You almost never I mean
short of the recent thing you did with the
Peter hotez
You almost never weigh in on anything is has was that sort of a conscious thing
for you to step back
Yeah, well with that one it was like, okay, this is crazy. You're you're you're
you're saying that
He he was he made some crazy tweet about neo fascist leanings. Yeah. Yeah, I
saw that
Like what are you talking about like with robert kennedy jr with me? I'm like
this is dangerous like what you're saying is
Totally untrue. You know, it's untrue and you're willing to just say it because
like the the more you can
Discredit someone who's in opposition to some of your ideas
The the more you can somehow another in your weird game of checkers you're
playing like elevate yourself
But you don't think people know what you're doing
Like that's like the the most clear outland neofascist like what the fuck are
you saying?
Did you feel more angry at the fact that you had already had a conversation
with him?
And so you there was some kind of personal connection between you two
I mean, I understand he's not sure sure i've had him on at least what was he on
twice?
Twice i've had him on twice. I was very nice to him. Yeah, even in disagreement
with him like in issues of health
I was very nice to him
But you can't just say stuff like that and you know, it's like I just wanted to
say like have a debate with the guy
Yeah, like have a debate with the guy. So what ended up happening?
I think it got up to like two million dollars. He's not gonna do it. He won't
do it
You know, I don't think he wants to do it
You know and this there's the idea that like robert kennedy would be too silver-tongued
like
Stop, come on because he's a lawyer, you know, he's really good arguing stuff
Like look if you either you're the facts or you don't have facts, right?
And if you're scared to debate the facts, I have to go. What are these facts?
What's bothering you? What do you worry that he might bring up?
I mean, what are we saying it could be the case? So for example, I've been
often asked why don't you debate creationists?
Evolution and I take the position there of richard dawkins
Which is it's not that i'm too haughty to debate anyone is that there's almost
no chance that I could present any evidence
That would cause you to alter your position. Yeah
So it's really a losing proposition. So could it be that peter hotez is coming
from that perspective?
It could but you know what I would say to that
Even in your case, it is preposterous for someone to to not believe that at
least there's a process of evolution
At this stage of it's it's kind of crazy to because there's like there's
evidence of things that are happening
Where things are adapting to their environment right now that we we've tracked
yeah, exactly like you know
There's a little antelope in the congo that swims underwater and eats fish. Is
that right? Yeah, it's called a diker
I think it's called a diker d-i-k-e-r. I think that's how you say it
But this little animal evolved
Lived on grasslands and the grasslands became rainforest and