Joe Rogan Experience #2012 - Gad Saad

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. NANarrator0:00

      (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. GSGad Saad0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music) How are you, sir?

   4. GSGad Saad0:13

      Oh my God, I'm excited to see you.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:14

      Good to see you. It's always great to see you.

   6. GSGad Saad0:16

      I think this is the ninth time I appear, so am I entering kind of Hall of Fame status, or...

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:22

      Yeah, there's like a-after five, anybody with more than five. (laughs)

   8. GSGad Saad0:26

      S- that should be like the top line on my CV. Forget about all the other bullshit. Nine times on Joe Rogan.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:32

      We've had some fun conversations.

   10. GSGad Saad0:33

       Yeah, before we start, today, July 25th, is the release of my latest book.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:38

       All right.

   12. GSGad Saad0:39

       Here's a copy for you, sir.

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:40

       Thank you very much. The Sad Truth About Happiness: Eight Secrets for Leading the Good Life.

   14. GSGad Saad0:46

       Boom.

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:47

       All right.

   16. GSGad Saad0:48

       Please read it.

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:49

       I will.

   18. GSGad Saad0:49

       You'll enjoy it. Lot of-

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:50

       Did you do the audiobook?

   20. GSGad Saad0:52

       Oh, f- you know, I swear to God, the number one thing I was worried that you were going to ask me-

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:56

       (laughs)

   22. GSGad Saad0:56

       ... was that, and you lead off with that. Uh, so here's what happened.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:00

       An actor does it.

   24. GSGad Saad1:02

       So he has a beautiful voice.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:03

       (laughs)

   26. GSGad Saad1:05

       I, 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 pu- audio publisher said, "Sorry, we do in-house narration."

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:19

       Well, now...

   28. GSGad Saad1:19

       So I think for the next book, I'll put it as part of the contract.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:22

       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-

   30. GSGad Saad1:30

       Yeah.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Oh. …

   1. GSGad Saad15:00

      Rogan, uh, was passed onto me, uh, and I think I would, it would be great for, I'd love for my dad to come on your show."

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:08

      Oh.

   3. GSGad Saad15:09

      And... Now, cut to the punchline, it never ended up happening, he recently passed away, so perhaps he wasn't, I mean, he was like 94, 95. But just the fact that you and I are having a conversation, someone else picks it up and then my word can n- my world can intersect with Burt Bacharach, whom there is no conceivable place where his word and, world and mine would ever connect. That's the beauty of life.

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:35

      Wow. That is the beauty of life. That's awesome.

   5. GSGad Saad15:38

      Isn't that amazing?

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:39

      Yeah. Cl-

   7. GSGad Saad15:39

      You are a connector, sir.

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:41

      I try to be. Clint Eastwood would be an interesting guy to talk to. Like, the guy still works.

   9. GSGad Saad15:46

      Unbelievable.

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:46

       You know, he's like 93 years old, he's still out there making movies.

   11. GSGad Saad15:49

       Yeah, well I don't-

   12. JRJoe Rogan15:50

       Still enjoys it.

   13. GSGad Saad15:50

       I remember in Lebanon when I, I, you know, I only learned English in, in, when I moved to, to Canada when I was 11. And I, I got all the communication I needed to get, even though there wasn't much dialogue in the spaghetti westerns. I would look at him and I would say, "That's, that's the man." You know? And so he's-

   14. JRJoe Rogan16:09

       Remember Every Which Way But Loose?

   15. GSGad Saad16:10

       Of course.

   16. JRJoe Rogan16:11

       He hung around with an orangutan. (laughs)

   17. GSGad Saad16:14

       (laughs) So that's a bit later, right? That's-

   18. JRJoe Rogan16:15

       That's a fucking movie.

   19. GSGad Saad16:16

       That's in the '70s, right?

   20. JRJoe Rogan16:18

       I, I believe so.

   21. GSGad Saad16:19

       Yeah, yeah, yeah.

   22. JRJoe Rogan16:20

       I believe it was the '70s.

   23. GSGad Saad16:21

       Yeah, yeah, yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan16:22

       He played a bare knuckle boxer-

   25. GSGad Saad16:23

       That's right.

   26. JRJoe Rogan16:24

       ... who traveled around with an orangutan.

   27. GSGad Saad16:27

       That's right, that's right.

   28. JRJoe Rogan16:27

       (laughs)

   29. GSGad Saad16:27

       Yeah, I think that sounds like '77. But I'm talking in the '60s. I'm talking, you know, '65, '67, '68 when I'm, you know, four or five years old and I'm watching this guy in, in, in Lebanon.

   30. JRJoe Rogan16:39

       Wow.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Oh, yeah. You were…

   1. GSGad Saad30:00

      yeah, yeah. So what else is up? What's h- I think we were gonna talk about, uh, uh, what my impression of some of the prices in Austin.

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:08

      Oh, yeah. You were telling me that, uh, an espresso was $8.

   3. GSGad Saad30:11

      I, so yeah.

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:12

      (laughs)

   5. GSGad Saad30:12

      So yes, yes- yesterday, I went out with, actually I was at my, at that, at the hotel. And, uh, two friends came by to, one of whom I think has been on your show, Michael Malice.

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:22

      Yeah, I love that dude.

   7. GSGad Saad30:23

      And, yeah, he's lovely. And the other, the other guy is a professor at UT Austin who's really, Richard Lowry, who's really fighting. He's very much of a academic honey badger fighting against all the woke stuff. And so we were just hanging out. Uh, one of, one of the guys ordered a Diet Coke, and two of us ordered, uh, two espressos. Uh, the bill came. It was, uh, with the tip, $28.

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:44

      (laughs)

   9. GSGad Saad30:46

      And I'm thinking, "This is like Oprah money." Like, who, who can, who can, you know, afford these prices? You, you tell me. What's, what's going on in Austin? It's all-

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:56

       I have no idea. I didn't go to that place. I don't know, but-

   11. GSGad Saad30:58

       But I mean, in general, the real estate, everything is completely doubled, tripled. It's, it's going... I mean, I understand that it's because it's a hot place.

   12. JRJoe Rogan31:05

       Yeah, but espresso shouldn't be eight bucks, right? (laughs)

   13. GSGad Saad31:07

       (laughs)

   14. JRJoe Rogan31:07

       Like what did (laughs) what did espresso cost?

   15. GSGad Saad31:10

       Well, in Montreal, it'll be...

   16. JRJoe Rogan31:12

       ... four or five is normal. What's normal in Montreal?

   17. GSGad Saad31:14

       Mon- Montreal would be maybe for an espresso, so it's a short espresso, single espresso, at 3.50.

   18. JRJoe Rogan31:19

       Which it's hard for people to believe, but when I was growing up, there was no Starbucks.

   19. GSGad Saad31:24

       Right.

   20. JRJoe Rogan31:24

       People did not... They did not like coffee like they like coffee now. They are the greatest drug dealers the world's ever known.

   21. GSGad Saad31:33

       (laughs)

   22. JRJoe Rogan31:33

       They (laughs) they're slinging that sweet caffeine all over this country, and that's what it is. It's the best drug-dealing operation the world's ever known, 'cause it's a super mild, productive drug that-

   23. GSGad Saad31:44

       Right.

   24. JRJoe Rogan31:44

       ... everybody enjoys.

   25. GSGad Saad31:45

       Yes.

   26. JRJoe Rogan31:46

       Feels like a warm hug-

   27. GSGad Saad31:47

       Oh, oh, I f- I feel, I feel the-

   28. JRJoe Rogan31:48

       ... as my friend Tate Fletcher likes to say.

   29. GSGad Saad31:49

       ... the, the requisite drug conversations coming up. Here we go on a 30-minute conversation of drugs. (laughs)

   30. JRJoe Rogan31:53

       Yeah, but this is, like, a good drug, like caffeine as it-
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   In the second one?…

   1. GSGad Saad45:00

   2. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      In the second one? But this movie's so fucking good.

   3. GSGad Saad45:02

      Yeah.

   4. JRJoe Rogan45:02

      It's so good and it's so scary. It's a great sci-fi movie, but it's also fucking scary.

   5. GSGad Saad45:09

      Yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan45:09

      Like- like you're talking about being startled.

   7. GSGad Saad45:11

      Yeah, yeah.

   8. JRJoe Rogan45:11

      Like, and that- that alien in this movie is elusive and intelligent and traps people.

   9. GSGad Saad45:19

      Yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan45:19

       And- and- and you- you get to see it in brief glances.

   11. GSGad Saad45:23

       Yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan45:23

       And then in the new movies after that, like, the- like, Aliens, it's kind of a different things going on.

   13. GSGad Saad45:29

       Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan45:29

       'Cause you can kill them easy.

   15. GSGad Saad45:30

       Yeah, you can.

   16. JRJoe Rogan45:30

       Now you just blasting a bunch of them.

   17. GSGad Saad45:32

       Yeah, yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan45:32

       And then the mother is at you, but you got a robot body-

   19. GSGad Saad45:35

       Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan45:35

       ... so you're all good. Like, it's just so much ridiculousness that it just hurts my feelings.

   21. GSGad Saad45:38

       Have you ever... (laughs) Have you ever seen 1980 Brian De Palma's Dressed to Kill, which is kind of a precursor to all the transgender stuff that we hear today. Have you seen that movie?

   22. JRJoe Rogan45:49

       No.

   23. GSGad Saad45:49

       Oh, it's fantastic. Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson. Look, you- you're amazing, Jamie.

   24. JRJoe Rogan45:57

       Jamie's a wizard.

   25. GSGad Saad45:57

       It- it comes out. I mean, you're a wizard. You have to see this movie, Joe.

   26. JRJoe Rogan46:01

       Is she supposedly transgender in this movie?

   27. GSGad Saad46:03

       No. So what happens is sh- uh, can I give away some stuff, or...

   28. JRJoe Rogan46:06

       Uh, yeah, it's a spoiler alert.

   29. GSGad Saad46:07

       Oh, it's a spoiler alert.

   30. JRJoe Rogan46:07

       It's a movie from the '20s.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:12:49

   (laughs) …

   1. GSGad Saad1:00:00

      are our thoughts about that?

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:02

      (laughs)

   3. GSGad Saad1:00:02

      (laughs)

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:00:02

      Uh, I hear people like it.

   5. GSGad Saad1:00:04

      Have I, have I just lost, uh, a few testosterone points?

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:00:06

      No, but people... No. Come on, man. People like pickleball. Um...

   7. GSGad Saad1:00:10

      Well, apparently there's a whole craze of pickleball now because it's not quite as difficult as tennis. You don't have to cover as much ground. It's still a racket game.

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:00:19

      It looks like a lot of damage to the knees, son.

   9. GSGad Saad1:00:20

      Yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:00:21

       That's what I'm looking at right there.

   11. GSGad Saad1:00:22

       In terms of squash, we're talking?

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:00:23

       You're running around.

   13. GSGad Saad1:00:25

       Yeah, yeah, yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:00:25

       A lot of fucking explosive movements. For old guys like us?

   15. GSGad Saad1:00:28

       Yeah, yeah, yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:00:29

       Best stick to yoga. (laughs)

   17. NANarrator1:00:32

       (laughs) Yeah, pickleball you can play with a beer in your hand, so you, you'd be all right.

   18. GSGad Saad1:00:34

       Actually, yeah. (laughs)

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:00:34

       Yeah. Pickleball, pickleball's the way to go, son.

   20. GSGad Saad1:00:37

       By, by the way, uh, and I'm not gonna s-... call it ping pong. Table tennis.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:00:41

       Oh, my God. Insane.

   22. GSGad Saad1:00:43

       I, I used-

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:00:43

       I watched a lot of it.

   24. GSGad Saad1:00:44

       When I was, when I was a graduate student, uh, there was a, uh, a fellow student who... We were roughly the same level, so we could have these wrong... long rallies.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:00:52

       Yeah.

   26. GSGad Saad1:00:52

       We'd play for two, three hours. We'd be drenched.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:00:55

       Oh, it's very, very, very athletic. It's also amazing to watch.

   28. GSGad Saad1:00:58

       Yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:00:58

       Like, their reads-

   30. GSGad Saad1:01:00

       Yeah. It's amazing.

Episode duration: 3:07:20