Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1557 - Gad Saad
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1557 - Gad Saad' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-10-29. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1557 - Gad Saad

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Hello.
What's up, man? How are you? Good to see you. The Gadfather.
You too. How you doing, man?
I miss you, man. It's been a long time. I wish we could do it in studio,
but I don't think you're allowed to travel from Canada right now, right?
I'm not, but I'm so worried about your COVID results
that just like my hero Joe Biden told me, I need to wear a mask.
What do you think of that, of marketing?
I like it. The parasitic mind mask. Excellent. Are you selling those?
We will be eventually, but my publisher is still working out all the final
details.
All right. Beautiful. Beautiful.
I want to know, how are you doing with the COVID? How is the truth seeker,
Jamie, doing?
Young Jamie is all good to go.
He was only really sick for a day because he's young and virile and he takes
his vitamin D and zinc and vitamin C and all that stuff.
He caught it. We don't know where he caught it.
He believes he might have caught it at a bar or on a patio, but really was only
sick for a day.
But, you know, we had to do the right thing.
And so we were locked out.
He was locked out for 10 days and he had four positive COVID results in a row.
Now five. Did you get one today?
Negative. There were negative results.
Excuse me. Positive in a good way.
Negative. Negative in terms of him having the disease, but positive in a good
way.
And you've always been negative.
Yeah, I've always been negative.
Oh, good.
Yeah.
Fortunately. Yeah.
But we're good to go now.
So no issues.
No one else has gotten it.
It's amazing that Jamie is the first person in studio that actually tested
positive.
We've tested everyone.
Today was my 48th test.
I've been tested 48 different times.
Is that the invasive one where they really go up and tickle your brain or is it
a less fancy one?
They don't have to do that anymore.
They found that just, I mean, it doesn't feel good, but they just, they don't
go all the way up.
They go kind of midway and they just do it for 10 seconds in each nostril and
then they stick it in the machine and you get a result in 15 minutes.
How much has this whole thing affected your life?
I mean, other than having to do things remotely and so on.
It's affected everyone's life, right?
Doing things remotely.
We have actually shockingly done not that many remotely.
A lot of the people we brought in and just tested everybody.
It's just so much better.
I mean, you know, when we're face to face, I mean, you and I have been friends
for a long time now.
How many years have we been doing these things together?
Oh, I don't know.
Maybe eight years or something at least.
It's nice to see you and to hug you and to talk and to, you know, to look each
other in the eye.
But this is a great second best.
Have the metrics changed in terms of your listeners as a function of whether
you do it in person or remotely?
No, that hasn't changed.
The numbers just keep going up because people are at home and they're trapped
and they look for content.
And they also look for honest content.
There's not a lot of that shit out there headed up to the election.
Everyone is so twisted and biased and it's just such a weird, weird time.
I mean, I just I want it to be over in hopes that not just the election, but
also COVID so that people can get back to work, which I think will calm people
down when the financial situation starts to improve.
I think people will be less on edge.
It's just such a divided time.
So it's so unfortunate.
But I think I think we're going to learn a lot from this.
You know, I really do.
Yeah, I hope so, too.
I mean, it's been it's been tough over here because I'm on sabbatical this
semester and it's at the time when my book came out.
So I was planning on doing all kinds of, you know, world book tours and also
all sorts of stuff and everything has been shut down.
So it's been a bummer, but at least I get to spend more time with the family, I
guess.
Well, yeah, there's some as long as people take advantage of this time, you can
do some self-improvement.
You can you know, people can meditate and exercise and write.
And there's a lot of things you can get done.
These are minor concerns, I believe, in comparison to the people whose
businesses are shut down and the people who've lost family members and, you
know, have struggled personally health wise with the disease.
But the number of people that are losing their businesses is just insane.
I mean, this is unprecedented.
There's nothing like it.
And one of the reasons why we left California is because of their draconian
measures that they're using to shut things down.
You know, the initial conversation, they were going to shut it down until they
flattened out the curve.
And the hospitals were at, you know, were able to accept people and they weren't
overburdened.
Well, they're not overburdened now and they still have everything shut down.
It doesn't make any sense.
And they're saying now that after the election, after the election is what they
keep saying.
So they're not even trying to hide that it's political.
And, you know, Jamie and I and the rest of the crew, we were all pretty sick of
it.
And it just our freedoms are being impinged upon.
It just didn't it didn't infringed upon rather.
It didn't seem like the what we signed up for.
You know, we never signed up for an autocrat.
We never signed up for the government to be able to tell us that we can't work.
And this is insane.
This has never happened before.
And it, you know, it makes all the wacky tinfoil hat conspiracy theories
actually seem to make more sense than they've ever made before, which is even
more terrifying.
Because people have already been QAnon'd out the ass online.
Everyone's so crazy already online.
And this is what gives them more.
It adds more fuel to the fire that this is real.
And it seems to be in a lot of ways.
I mean, that they are they're doing this for political purposes, which is
terrifying.
Yeah.
You know, I analogize it to, you know, if you want to raise children well, you
need to have, you know, consistent parenting so that the child knows what he or
she needs to do to get the strokes and what he or she needs to do if they're
going to get punished.
When you have a haphazard parental style, it's a form of mind fuck, if I might
say, for the child, because they don't know when to expect your love or your scorn.
And in a sense, I view the current COVID regulations akin to a inconsistent
parent, right?
I don't know if tomorrow I'm allowed to invite people over for a small barbecue
in my house or not.
It all seems very sort of flying by the seat of your pant.
And I think that's what stresses me the most, that I can't really have any
sense of regularity or any predictability in my life.
I think that's the really tough part.
What are the regulations in Montreal in terms of what you're allowed to do and
not allowed to do?
And are they as draconian as they are here in the United States?
Well, particularly in California.
In Texas, they give you a lot more freedom.
It's really nice.
So right now we're on our second month of pretty complete lockdown.
Not lockdown in the sense that you can't go out on the street, but you can't go
to – the restaurants are closed.
You can only take out – the cafes are closed, the gyms are closed.
So you could certainly walk around the city freely.
But most of the things that you and I might do if we're going to leave our
house, we can't do.
I can't go to the gym.
I can't go to a cafe.
I can't go to a restaurant.
So in that sense, it's quite tough.
So I end up spending most of my time either at home or I go for long walks.
Is this a national thing or is it a regional thing?
I think it varies across each province because of all of the provinces for much
of the COVID crisis, Quebec and Montreal in particular were some of the hotspots.
As a matter of fact, where I live was one of the hotspots within the hotspots
of Montreal.
And so we were quite concerned.
And so we've tried to limit to the best of our abilities going out.
But especially in Montreal where, as you know, you lived in Boston, winter is
coming.
So it was easy to kind of go through COVID when it's April, May and June and
July.
It's going to be a lot more challenging to do the lockdown when it's, you know,
minus 20 and I haven't been outside for three weeks.
Yeah, what they tried to do in L.A. is really bizarre.
They tried to tell people you can't have people over for like a party.
You can't have families over for your house.
And they were actually asking people to turn their neighbors in, which is just
they were offering rewards for people turning their neighbors in.
And, you know, in the beginning, it made sense because we were worried that two
million people were going to die.
And this was a disease that was going to ravage the entire country.
But then when you look at the survival rate, it doesn't pan out.
If we knew coming in to if COVID, we had all the information that we have now
at the beginning.
If we had all that information now and they proposed the same lockdown, I think
people would have resisted.
They would have been furious.
The problem is they initially agreed to it, thinking that it was going to be
way worse than it was.
And then when it turned out to not be nearly as deadly as we feared, there was
no adjustments made.
I hear you.
And, you know, I've had a few, you know, virologists on my show, and I think
you have as well.
And several of them have told me that they early in the lockdown, that they
thought that there wasn't a very good cost benefit analysis in terms of the
repercussions of such a lockdown.
That many of the costs of the lockdown were not being taken into account within
the modeling.
And I think their position has turned out to be true, right?
Very few people talk about the missed cancer screenings and the heart disease
and the anxiety and the depression and the spousal abuse and the child abuse.
And so I don't know when that autocorrective mechanism is going to work.
But I suspect that people are not going to tolerate this for much longer, I
think.
Well, I don't know what they can do outside of, like, a revolt, and that's what's
terrifying.
You know, I agree with you, though.
I think the World Health Organization, that was what we were supposed to be
paying attention to.
And YouTube literally said that they were going to censor anything that didn't
agree with the World Health Organization.
Amazing.
But now the World Health Organization has come out and said that the lockdowns
should end.
Yeah.
They were saying that the economic despair, suicides, drug addiction,
everything is skyrocketed, right?
And the World Health Organization is saying that the effect of the lockdown has
been so detrimental that they don't support this economic lockdown.
But yet the lockdown continues.
So now they don't support the World Health Organization anymore, which is like,
OK, well, who is the authority now?
Who's the authority?
Because it can't be the mayor of Los Angeles or the governor of California,
because they're both so rabidly Democrat.
They're so rabidly liberal that it seems like they would be happy to watch the
economy tank if they could blame it on Donald Trump.
And this is where we find ourselves.
I hear you.
By the way, is California the most democratic state at the various levels of
any state?
Would that be true to say?
I wonder.
New York's pretty democratic as well.
It's the coastal cities.
You know, it's something, it's interesting, because maybe I could ask you this.
Why do you think cities become so liberal?
Because it seems like there's no real conservative cities.
Cities almost always go blue.
I suspect it's because that's where sort of the intelligentsia end up going.
And as you know, most of the folks that are within the intelligentsia are
typically exactly the people that I discuss in the parasitic mind, the people
who are parasitized by all these idea pathogens.
And so 