Name: Joe Rogan Experience #766 - Gad Saad
Uploaded: 2016-02-26T03:01:09.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #766 - Gad Saad' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-02-26. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #766 - Gad Saad' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-02-26. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #766 - Gad Saad

fighting the nonsense of the world ladies and gentlemen the godfather's back
how are you buddy
oh good to see you man good to see you what's going on what's going on i'm here
in southern
california you escaped i escaped minus 30 with windchill last week didn't leave
the house from
friday to monday with the windchill factors minus 30 or it's actually minus 30.
i mean with the
windchill yeah so i'd say it's minus 15 with windchill minus 30. you guys have
become too soft
in southern california 100 what do you mean become we've been too soft yeah
yeah this is a ridiculous
place to live well i don't know it is this is like a lottery winner place to
live it's like the the
weather lottery and these people they don't understand what weather is they're
just running
around i think i swear to god if it gets 50 here people start complaining i've
seen weather advisories
when i used to live here where there'd be a 10 minute spell of rain and there'd
be endless warnings
be careful be careful be careful you know we go through blizzards yeah there is
one reason for
that though the oil slick yes yeah when it doesn't rain for a long time all the
oil from people's cars
the residue gets on the road and as soon as just a little bit of water gets on
that it gets
really slippery and that that is reality but still before we start before we
last time when i was here
it was on your birthday and some guy wrote in a very non-anti-semitic way here
goes god being a jew
not giving joe rogan a gift on his birthday so i thought that i would correct
that by giving you a
signed copy of one of my books so there you go there you go the consuming
instinct now you can grow
what juicy burgers ferraris pornography and gift giving reveal about human
nature there you go buddy
by and sign by the godfather thank you so much very exciting yeah well you can't
read those those things
that people say those mean things oh yeah i try to avoid them but once in a
while i get sucked in and
they they can piss me off well i always equate it to snake venom it's like uh
if you get a little
bit of snake venom you get you get immune to it you get accustomed to it
whereas if you get a big burst
of it it can poison you so if you just get a little bit of it every now and
then when a big burst comes
your way like someone calling you a cheap jew you go you motherfucker it doesn't
work anymore you know
right you just realize there's a lot of people out there that a lot of the
reason why they're saying
these mean things because they're trying to find something that they can say
that'll get you to
respond exactly right that's a big part of it so what so recently the latest
one is so somebody
trolls you endlessly in a very impolite manner right okay usually i sometimes i
try to engage them but i
find them do you really i know it's it's ridiculous you're a busy man you're
you're an actual professor
i am at a legitimate university i am indeed isn't it crazy that i would even
entertain there yeah so
anyway so once in a while i get sucked into the trap okay they're impolite so
after a while i block them
so these guys then because i've blocked them start going around saying well you
know he he's supposedly
a proponent of freedom of speech yet he blocks me as though i'm the purveyor of
freedom of speech right
i mean i'm not allowed to come to your house break into your house and start
calling you names and if you
stop me i accuse you of not supporting free speech right but in their minds if
i block them simply
because i no longer want to engage them i am going i am being a hypocrite
because i'm not supporting
their freedom to insult me see again i have to go back to what i said earlier
why why you're so smart
like what what how is this even getting into your mind can i tell you what it
is oftentimes yes i find
that galling that somebody could be so insulting galling yeah what does that
word mean like uh
right yes right i mean we interact you and i with a million people a day with
most of the people they're
lovely they're sweet they're polite the vast vast majority right so so when you
get this individual
who simply can't modulate his behavior to even sort of adhere to the most basic
social norms once in a
while i just get pissed off but usually i'm able to avoid it well you shouldn't
even once in a while
look first of all you got to realize that an anonymity is a really confusing
thing for people right
it's the ability to communicate with people anonymous has never existed before
right other than some
serial killer making some note by cutting out little pieces of paper out of the
newspaper and you
know using the words from that there's no anonymity man it doesn't it doesn't
exist right so when you
have anonymity in the form of like you have a twitter account it's just an egg
and you call yourself
mcgee and you just start trolling the gadfather makes no sense it's well it's
you know that's not a
normal interaction it's it there shouldn't be a method or someone could just
contact you like that
because our bodies and our minds and our all our systems our social systems
they're just not set
up for that so it's it's saying rude things without consequence you're
basically you're offering by the
way an evolutionary argument yes that's exactly right yeah it's it's a
completely new thing that we really
just don't have the mechanisms for we're just we're not we're not accustomed to
it we don't really have a long
history of it i mean we have a history of just doing this the realistic history
at the extreme level is
20 years 94-ish 96-ish somewhere around then when it started right but the the
real history is probably
less than 10 of it really being incredibly pervasive the way it is today like
with twitter and facebook
and all this instagram comments and things along those lines go ahead no no i
was just saying it's it's a new
thing that we have to work out because it is a massive massive part of our
culture there was some
statistic recently about the amount of data that people produce in a day
worldwide and most of the data is lol you you know but it is you know ones and
zeros binary code it's all
all that data there's more produced in a day than it's it's some staggering
statistic than the rest of
human history yeah yeah it's like it's something crazy like here here it goes
every day 2.5 quintillion
five bytes of data created daily incredible what in the is that 90 percent of
the world's data today
has been created in the last two years alone wow well by the way a lot of
business schools now have
programs and data analytics or big data where they try to teach students how to
navigate through the
complexity of this type of big data sets so it's a really hot field in business
schools well it's
impossible right i mean the real navigate i mean what it is is there is a
pattern a very clear pattern
emerging that pattern is of anyone being able to access any information at any
time and it's getting
closer and closer to that all the time and some of that means communication
right doesn't just mean
being able to access you know googling some facts or some some knowledge it
also it's it's being able
to communicate with people right and it's got it's gotten to this really crazy
place speaking of
information my doctoral dissertation more than 20 years ago was about how do
people decide when to stop
acquiring additional information and commit to a choice so suppose i'm choosing
between cars or between
mates or between uh job applicants or between jobs to take whatever the the
decision is did you say
between mates mates yeah you'll see you got like a gang of you should see i i
did i did look at
some of the comments right after i appear right then i lose interest and i don't
but there was one guy who wrote
something like this guy is swimming in well and then everybody starts ganging
up on that comment so uh
you know what it is man it's that uh beer commercial the most interesting man
in the world is that that
i look like him yeah that's what it is like that look like it's become a thing
now you know i got you
the beautiful white beard and a man of wisdom in years well thank you uh so
anyway so in that in my
doctoral dissertation i looked at whoa i think i'm better looking than this guy
i'm sure you do think
that you know that guy's canadian too is he yeah he's not even uh really spanish
and he's much older
than me you think so what do you mean yeah i think so he's like 70. okay i'm 51.
i don't know how old
the guy is yeah so anyway so so so the whole psychology of decision making i've
i've addressed
it in my research very interesting stuff yeah well what is the well this is a
different sort of uh
decision making thing because i i think you you definitely can get lost where
you can just go
online and you know one of the things that youtube does now that makes it
really difficult is you watch
a video say if i was watching some video today on um a rhino slamming into a
car it was it was removed
though some copyright infringement it's crazy this rhino charges this car and
slams into it
the problem is once you watch a video immediately after that it it offers up
another video and it
starts playing it'll give you like 10 seconds like and then it starts playing
again and then you look
on the side and there's all these suggestions it's not as simple as one video
it's an endless web
that's why by the way internet pornography for men is such an alluring trap
right because
our visual system and our need for variety seeking is there and now you mean i
can satiate this by going
online having endless different nubile ready to mate women yes so it's easy for
our computational
system to be parasitized by by the internet well it's also it's probably really
not we're not really set
up to watch people you know just it seems like uh the the brain just doesn't
know what to do with that you know
especially if you're by yourself close the door what's going on here yeah i
mean there's people
that just will watch pornography 10 12 hours a day and it's not just a few yeah
yeah i bet if you could
highlight i bet if you were in a plane and you're flying over the united states
and there was a light
bulb that went off over everyone's head that jerks off for 12 hours a day you'd
be stunned you'd be
stunned you'd be able to read by it you'd be able to hold a magazine up to the
window and read
i'm not joking i think i think there's a lot of people out there that get they
get overwhelmed by
the possibilities of doing that like the the choice yeah it's they don't have
the discipline to handle
that and uh it's actually a conversation that i was having with my friend duncan
the other day about
discipline and how important discipline is to living a good and healthy life
and that getting
the things that you need to get done will allow you to actually enjoy your free
time whereas if
you don't get those things done the the free time and those these pursuits
these things they almost
become obsessions and you you kind of dive into them to avoid the pressure of
getting those things
done and it becomes sort of counterintuitive yeah i counterproductive yeah
going back to the
pornography i had on my uh youtube channel uh do you know who mercedes carrera
is sure yeah i've met her
have you yeah yeah she came to one of my shows with uh i guess her husband or
boyfriend or something
like that very nice guy very smart girl but i'd seen her on um gavin mcginnis's
podcast right and she's
very smart she well of course i mean otherwise i mean what would we have to
talk about well she's an engineer
she's an engineer she's very very heavily vested into the whole social justice
warrior you know
bullshit and the other way fighting against fighting against exactly so i'd
seen her on a few you know
popular podcasts yeah and i thought i mean she's just not only she of course
beautiful but uh so well
spoken and so i had her on the show and we've communicated since several times
and so that's been
really fun i mean one i mean sort o