Name: Joe Rogan Experience #985 - Gad Saad
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #985 - Gad Saad' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-07-11. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #985 - Gad Saad

no abandon three two and we're live what's up buddy hey how are you i'm very
sorry about that
uh sound of the thing in the background ladies and gentlemen here that wasn't
that's annoying we'll shut that off can we shut that off sure go ahead okay can
you shut it off
jamie um that is because there was there was smoke in this room and the godfather
has a uh
an issue with the smoke how did you get over your asthma uh around puberty uh
it often subsides
especially if you're quite athletic which i was and then it completely went
away by about 13
and only came back by about 25 but now i'm not full-blown asthmatic only when i
get sick if i
let's say get a cold it will migrate to my chest turn into bronchitis and what
will take you four
days to fight might take me a month of whooping cough whoa yeah that's why i'm
really careful
about not getting a cold you know you must be a hand washer well that's why
when i came out of the
bathroom my instinct was to tell jamie as i was shaking his hand i washed my
hands because i'm always
careful about shaking other people's hands so i'd like to extend them the same
courtesy yeah man i shake
some people's hands and it's like they just dunked it in the pool it's some
people like they get so
sweaty and you shake their hand you go whoa okay but what's going on with this
hand like what kind of
weird bacteria i read this article that was saying that water bottles when you
reuse a water bottle
they've tested them and they say that there's less bacteria on dog toys it's
pretty bad well that's
why by the way i've resorted to fist bumping not because i'm cool but it just
reduces the amount of
germ transfer from one person to the other by just going like this but don't
you think that that compromises your
immune system by not exposing it to a lot of different things there is actually
research on
this right from evolutionary medicine kids who grow up in very sterile
environments end up suffering
from greater respiratory ailments precisely because their system hasn't been
kicked up yeah i believe
that i rarely get sick and i shake a lot of hands but i know a lot of people
that don't and they're kind
of sick all the time like i don't want to get sick i'm like but maybe that's
what's going on
maybe we'll french kiss later after the other exciting don't you threaten me
with a good time
it's um i think it's also really important i don't know how much you partake of
this but uh
to consume probiotics do you uh eat acidophilus or yogurt or i do i do like
yogurt i do like kimchi
i don't do it by design i think maybe just those preferences are healthy and so
i'm i'm happy to
hear that they're good choices yeah they are good probiotics and like for grapplers
in particular
grapplers are very um particular about the consumption of probiotics because we
get a lot of ringworm
and um also uh staph infections too there's a lot of different infections that
people can get from
especially ringworm now staph infections is really more for an from an open cut
but having healthy skin
flora is very important that's why all you kids listening don't use antibiotic
soap it's not it's
not the right way to go there's a lot of healthy soaps that are used like tea
tree oil and eucalyptus
that are really good for you that are probiotic right keep the idea of worm in
mind because later i'd like
to talk about brain worms and how it relates to a condition that is afflicting
the west we can get
into it now brain worms you mean like uh toxoplasma that would be one uh yeah
there's other ones there
there are many others uh you want to get into that now sure okay so i had sapolsky
on i know i know
and i should write to him because he's amazing he is amazing i wrote to him a
while ago maybe a year
and a half or two years ago but at the time he to come on my show uh but he was
i think very busy
writing a few books which i'm guessing he's probably done with now yeah well he
was busy then we had to
meet him in la in his hotel room to be able to film we only had an hour he
literally landed got into
his hotel room we went with him as he opened up the door to his hotel we sat
down with him like it was
just a little table and chair there it's fantastic yeah yeah so basically i i
argue that in the same way
that there are all sorts of animals that once they are infected with this brain
worm and there are
different instantiations of it uh they they lose they become zombified right i
mean right just to
give you another example the spider wasp will sting the spider which which is
much bigger than it
rendering it zombified it then carries it into its burrow lays its eggs on the
in vivo spider and then when
the eggs hatch they eat it in vivo and i argue that the the political correctness
is akin to the spider
wasp's sting because it zombifies us into walking quietly to the abyss of
infinite darkness uh while
horrible things are happening around us but while we think that we're doing the
right thing while we
think that yeah we're not we're being not racist and good and progressive uh
but but to go back to the
brain worm idea so i coined the term not to be cute but to actually name this
collective condition i call
it ostrich parasitic syndrome yeah we've talked about this before did we talk
about it do you know that
that that's a myth oh yeah yeah yeah yeah it's become just a metaphor for yeah
absolutely the myth being
folks that ostriches don't really stick their head in the ground exactly uh and
and it's it's really taken
on a life of its own at this point i'm actually thinking of studying this
scientifically not just as
something that i talk about in my public engagement what is it that causes some
people to be more
likely to be parasitized by the types of mindsets that would cause you to
suffer from ostrich parasitic
syndrome so a classic example would be which i guess we'll we'll get into how
much evidence do you need
to see around the world that there might be some religious ideology that is
somewhat problematic and
antithetical to secular liberal modern values how much information or what is
the type of information
that you would need to see before you're able to arrive to such a conclusion
and so one of the
things i'm thinking of doing is to formally quantify a score of ops how much
somebody suffers from ops as a
type of mindset and what are some predictors that could help us understand who
is more or less likely to
be effect afflicted by this mindset well there's certain people that just never
want to hurt anyone's
feelings right except when they think that it is within their rights to attack
that person because
that person is somehow or another victimizing someone else right and then they'll
be far more egregious
than the original offense did you know about that guy that in canada that's
getting sued well he the human
rights council um find him twelve thousand dollars because he walked into an
apartment that he owned
with shoes on yes yes because there was a muslim family living there um their
lease was up and he was
looking to rent the apartment they stopped responding to his texts and so he
opened up the apartment to show
this uh this apartment that he owns and because he walked into a building that
he owns with his shoes on
he has to pay them twelve thousand dollars for failing to accommodate their
religious practices
while showing their apartment to prospective tenants that's crazy welcome to
canada we just had a thing
called the motion and 103 are you familiar with this look at this look at this
statement i'm sorry to
interrupt you but the human rights count tribunal of our ontario also found
that he harassed them and
created a poisoned housing environment that's right there you go because he
refused to remove his shoes some
sensibilities are more equal than others but that is just what why is it that
people are so
especially in particularly with muslims like that you'll notice that there's a
lot of people that are
they will accuse everyone of islamophobia yet they'll shit on christians yeah
it's really common
like they don't it's not that they believe in religious freedom it's that they
have like a pet cause and the pet
cause is almost like being a contrarian to a lot of like far-right people who
are really terrified of
muslims like they're trying to like figure out how to how to balance that out
with their own ridiculous
left-wing version of it well i think it there are two elements to it one is
that they're just afraid to
criticize muslims because there are greater repercussions to do so than to
criticize seventh-day adventists
so just from a very basic sort of survival instinct but i think secondly which
is kind of part of the
ostrich parasitic syndrome i'm speaking of there are all sort of erroneous
ideas that people have been
infected with uh you know the the the the muslim religion is is a religion for
the downtrodden the the brown
people uh the exotic others and so to to criticize them when they are a hapless
exotic minority is simply racist
and sexist and people believe that even though most of the countries that these
people are coming from
when they come to the west not only are they the majority they're almost the
exclusive majority right
so so they are out of i think 56 countries that constitute the uh oic the
organization of islamic
cooperation something like 29 or 30 countries they're exclusively islamic they
are no longer any religious
minorities it's in the order of 99.9 something so to argue that people who come
from these countries
are you know religious minorities well i mean they're religious minorities when
they come to the west
but they're all coming from countries where not never mind that they're the
majority they've never
interacted with someone who did not share their faith i don't think people
understand that if that happens
here like you you can't turn back from that without violence right like if if i
mean i'm not saying that
it would happen in the united states but the fact that it can happen anywhere
means it can happen
everywhere i mean it really can i mean it's it's a it's a big reach on my part
to say that because
there's no evidence whatsoever that it's going to happen here but if you really
look at some of the
countries that are suffering under these these really oppressive religious ideologies
where women aren't
allowed to drive where they have to wear covering all over their body that signifies
that they're a part of this religious sect
like if that if someone tried to do that today like if you had some blonde-haired
blue-eyed guy that made
all women wear a certain outfit and they weren't allowed to drive and they
weren't allowed to have
the same rights how many people would be standing up for them that's incredible
especially if it was a new
thing there's something about old things like old ideologies that gives them
legitimacy it's so strange
yeah what is that uh well it's exactly what you said uh you take an idea that
someone holds if he
doesn't cloak cloak it under the robe of religion you commit him to a
psychiatric institution if he says
no no but this belief is part of my religion suddenly you get a free pass it's
grotesque but to speak to
your point about well that you were stretching about it happening in the united
states you're not stretching
it at all as a matter of fact i've argued uh for example when the when trump
won that if you look
at a long-term view of the issue of islamic immigration if if what you focus on
is uh do we
have the proper vetting processes to stop terrorists isis terrorists from
coming in that's a very short-term
view of the problem but if you recognize that societies will take often very
very long time before they
become islamized it's not as though every single country that today is islamic
became instantaneously
overnight islamic in some cases it was a very very quick invasion in other
cases it took 500 years
before the demographic reality shifted and so uh yes if you look at it from the
perspective of 10 20 50 100
ye