Name: Joe Rogan Experience #519 - Gad Saad
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #519 - Gad Saad' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-07-08. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #519 - Gad Saad

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gentlemen we have
a very special guest cue the music young jamie and i'll introduce him to the
world
we have is it is it okay to call you the gadfather please do the gadfather is
here ladies and gentlemen
and this is a in reference to a a music video that you were a part of uh gad
how do i say your last
name sad just sad that's fine gad sad it's two a's it gets tricky when it's two
a's because it's the
guttural sound from arabic oh how would you say it sad sad but since most
westerners couldn't pronounce
that you just do a double a oh that's that's got to be annoying that's what
this weird like we
gentrify everything we smush everything down and uh you are um you're an expert
in evolutionary
psychology and in this is where it gets really fascinating evolutionary
psychology and its
effect on consumerism right so i basically apply uh evolutionary psychology to
understand our
consumatory nature what are the biological forces that compel us to be the
consumers that we are
but i define consumption very broadly it's not just consuming coca cola but we
consume friendships
we consume religion we consume marriages so it's a consumption with a capital c
that's fascinating
to me because uh you know we have these uh general definitions that we use in
in in culture uh and
one of them is consumerism consumerism almost always pertains to buying things
right but what you're
looking at it in is is i i like that better i like because it is kind of what
we do we do consume
relationships don't we exactly i mean we consume cultural products right so uh
you know why is it that
certain songs are so appealing to us i mean what what what is it about song
lyrics that are uh that you
know trigger an emotional pull in us why are movies appealing well you study
these cultural products
because they say something really about the evolution of the human mind uh that's
do you study songs that
are annoying as well because i've always wondered why some songs are like super
appealing to some
but then just infuriating to other people yeah so that would probably be more a
musicologist who would study the
the musical structure of songs to know what makes them appealing or not i'm
specifically looking at
the lyrics so for example if you look at hip-hop videos they're a wonderful darwinian
laboratory
because all the political correctness is cut out and basically your real darwinian
being shines through right so men
are going to uh signal hey i've got the maserati i've got the porsche get with
me uh women are going
to signal you know beauty markers it's only women for example who denigrate men
if they have low social
status right it's never going to be a guy saying hey linda you you don't work
hard enough so uh you're
not ambitious enough i'm not going to have sex with you but the other way
around you see a million songs
like that right yeah yeah all you know like uh she's not a gold digger but you
know exactly that kind of
song yeah that's that's very interesting um a musicologist is that a real
person that's a real
person yes and a musicologist would study lyrics and no and well they would
probably study the the
structure structure of the musical notes right so what for example what is it
that's what types of
notes are innately appealing to people uh so that that's certainly not what i
do i'm i'm looking only
at song lyrics as one of many types of cultural products the lyrics would be
the thing that would
be annoying to most though i mean that would be the thing that would really
chime out as being
annoying like some like inane retarded songs taylor taylor swift well you said
it not me how dare
you how dare you that poor sorry girl has she not suffered enough oh i i know
one thing if you date
taylor swift you're a fucking idiot because that chick will write songs about
you for the end of
time she's got whole books about john mayer is that his name may or mayer i
always say it wrong john
mayer that chick's got books on that yes yes that's unfair imagine that um so
your your thing would be
more along along the lines of studying like why people are why they find it
appealing like the rap type
songs why they find it appealing like the taylor or the contents of those songs
yeah so for example if you
take a a a ancient greek poem right we still study it at university today 3 000
years later precisely
because that poem is going to speak to certain realities sibling rivalry status
competition parental
conflicts with their with their offspring uh paternal uncertainty all of these
factors is what makes
literature interesting so we could study those ancient greek poems today and
still it resonates
with us precisely because they are speaking about some universal truths that is
amazing isn't it that stuff
from uh 2 000 3 000 plus years ago is still studied on a daily basis but some
books from like 50 years ago
gone yeah that's got to be frustrating as hell if you're a writer if you're an
author and you're just like
what that that guy is so overrated i'm so tired of healing hearing about you
know aristotle like
aristotle go yourself bro that was so long ago you didn't know anything well
they knew a lot they did know a lot
they certainly knew the the mysteries of human nature i'm fascinated by that i
am absolutely fascinated by
what was going on thousands and thousands of years ago and like what was the
mindset and communication
with those people and you can kind of pull a little bit of it out of their
writing but man if i could go
back in time to some a cult i mean it would have to be a culture obviously that
speaks english where i could
understand what they're saying but i think that would be incredibly fascinating
to go back three or four
thousand years ago and communicate with people and just try to figure out how
they see the world
absolutely you know a lot of people are very stuck on identifying cultural
differences right so the
french eat this type of food the malaysians do this type of dance and but what
they miss is that
underneath all of these important cross-cultural differences is this bedrock of
human universals
that make us a lot more similar than different from one another and especially
in the social sciences
where people are really focused on just identifying differences differences
differences but of course
there are also things that are so common so that for example beauty markers
there are certain beauty
markers that if i went to the yanomomo tribe in the amazon they're going to
find exactly the same
things attractive in the in the beautiful girls and rap videos as you and i
would and that's because
those beauty markers are evolutionary markers and so yes culture matters nobody
denies the fact that
culture is important but underneath these cultural differences is a biological
biological heritage that
makes you and i very similar to one another what what changes ov