Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - A Review of Episode 1218 Gad Sadd

Episode Date: January 10, 2019

Gad Sadd is a professor and writer that is a huge proponent of free speech. Joe and Gad have a great friendship that always leads to a good conversation with lots to learn. Enjoy my review folks! Please email me with any suggestions and questions for future Reviews: [e-mail]

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gone into it pretty solidly on this podcast. So without further ado, let's get reviewing. get reviewin. So Gansad is a great character and really always a pleasure for him to be on Rogan's podcast. Just an interesting guy. He's one of those Jordan Peterson type, you know, well thought out individuals. And he has strong opinions, but he backs them up in very interesting ways and does lectures and speaking tours where he expresses these points that he's very vocal about that and that takes balls and I respect that. And I think that's why Joe is in part such good friends with Gadsad, interesting name.

They get into, they start off the podcast talking about Sagaan, who was recently de-platformed for using a racist word. And he was de-platformed from one of those sites that you can, like Patreon, I think it was Patreon, the way you can get donations, you know, you're probably familiar with those, you get donations, you get money. So he's losing about $12,000 a month because they took him off there. Now, after hearing what he said, and you can obviously you'll listen to Rogan's podcast, you know, from the review and then you, uh,

you'll know what he said. Now what he said was sloppy, it wasn't good. Uh, it wasn't like directly racist, but he was like making the point to say, um, you know, just, it was just bad. It wasn't good. And he was on someone else's podcast. And really the point is that should he have been banned for what he said, should there be some sort of review system in place that really analyzes what he

said, Joe, I guess is a bit of a fan of Sargon's work and said for the most part, he has really good, interesting points, but sometimes in a podcast because they're not scripted, you know, you're just speaking. Sometimes some things come out which aren't always maybe worded the best and if they're not directly racist in that sense or, you know, really bigotry, then should a site like Patreon be able to take down that his ability to make money. It's a good question because where do you draw the line? I think, you know, in a lot of ways Joe is setting up for the day that someone turns to him and says, like, you can't be on YouTube or you can't be somewhere and it's a big revenue stream just lost for him.

And I'm not saying he just does it just for himself, but I mean he's speaking out for all of these things and trying to get some consensus of like where we stand. It makes sense. You know, I don't know where it should be, but freedom of speech exists in this kind of digital world where companies are in charge. It doesn't exist in the same way as it does in the Constitution. So it's slippery and where Where is it going and how it doesn't need to be enforced and should it be and all those sorts of things?

$12,000 a month. There's no joke though. That's a lot of money to lose Because of the way you said one thing and then you know if they give it back to him now will he be scared and will he not express himself how he used to because of fear of getting dropped. Sam Harris is a huge proponent of free speech stuff and is very concerned about you know any time somebody is or a company or whatever is like you know trying to stifle that. he was also one of the biggest accounts on Patreon. So he made a lot of money that way because he doesn't do advertising on podcasts. He decides to do it just with people giving money, which is just more credit to Sam Harris with the way that he sets things up, I think it's awesome. And he's really, you know, fascinating, dude. So, yeah, he pulled his account because he didn't agree with the way that this is going.

I guess he has other streams of income and doesn't need to worry about it, but I'm sure he's losing some big money. And, yeah, he just does things how he feels best, regardless of the financial costs, and that's really impressive. But it's going to make Patreon open their eyes, I think. And that's kind of where it goes. And in the same way, Joe and Gad were talking about one time, I guess, Gad called somebody retarded on Twitter. And that person went to his school

and connected with his HR department and tried to get him fired. Crazy, in a sense of like that person wasn't even a student, didn't even go to a school. It's just this outrage culture is huge. And you say anything and people like know that this is the process You know they can get people fired and removed from schools and so on nothing really happened to Gab, but

It's kind of kind of crazy really that that happened And it begs the question like You know should we all be just so PC nice to each other all the time online when we're speaking that nobody ever gets offended or should we take the power away from these few people that really Get worked up about this stuff. I don't know. Joe Joe was talking and saying that in a lot of ways We don't have any struggle anymore, you know things are easy So people are getting upset at nonsense, you know, and not not all of it is nonsense. There's a hate out there that shouldn't be tolerated. That's definitely not good. But, at the same time, people are getting very upset about

really minuscule things, and it's almost to no end. It's like, where do you stop? You know, Joe gives the example that we don't need food anymore. Everyone mostly has food. You know, I'm sure there are a few spots of people starving in the world, but they're certainly not getting triggered. You know, they're just getting home with it. And he brings up the whole issue of the snowflake and what that is, you know, what it, what it sounds like. It's like everything, everyone's unique and everyone's this and that. But Joe says, maybe not. Maybe you're just not good at a lot of things and you're overly sensitive and that's that. So I don't know, that's kind of a, that's

kind of a, definitely a joke take on, on what a snowflake should be, but really people are getting too sensitive. He talks about how Yale has put tampons in the men's restrooms, saying that it's not just women in the men's straight. Honestly, you know, that seems very strange. I'm just like, what? The real question there is like, okay, if that's the case, then are there instructions on where you're supposed to put the tampon? Right? I'm like, hold on. I mean, what are you going to come out with, stuck up your nose,

like, you had a nose bleed? I don't really know what point they're trying to make there, it just seems really strange. Joe and Gad move on to start talking a little bit about Canada and the parts of Canada that they really like. Joe says that he does like Toronto more than Montreal. I'm not sure if that has anything to do with the fact that he basically sold out a 20,000 person arena area in Toronto, not that long ago. But he loves both those cities. He just says about Montreal, the whole French

and English thing kind of annoys him. The idea that the French there want to move away and separate into their own country. And you know, that sort of thing, I guess kind of gets on his nose. And another thing about Canada as a whole, is he's worried about the first amendment All the idea that there's no first amendment there so they don't have free speech like we have in the United States

There's a human rights council that kind of determines things that are happening But I mean that kind of goes with the times Which is a little scary and that's kind of bad news. So Joe's not about that. What he does like though, is university is cheap in Canada, and healthcare is free. Those things are good. And in a way, Joe is,

he says he's, you know, he has a lot of kind of values that align with that sort of socialism. And he gives the example of the fight department. Everyone has the fight department. Why can't everyone have health and why can't everyone go to university? It kind of makes sense for that to happen. In Gabb brings up some interesting points about the sparrotgy of relationships. He talks somewhat about, you know, like how a tall

woman will want to date taller men. So the taller the woman, the less selection they have for dating because men will be as tall. And in a way, it's the same for however high educated they get. The higher educated they want someone more educated so that in a way they're minimizing their own dating selection. But it makes sense that that would happen. I mean given the opportunities and skill set that a woman possesses, and I guess being tall isn't really a skill set, but that's a genetic advantage. Why would they

not then choose somebody taller in the same way as if you're a very smart educated woman? You're gonna want a man to do the same. I mean, you've got to stand around and chat with this person for a while, so that makes sense. And Gab brings up an interesting point that the young marriages, marriages, where people are like 18, in a sense they become stagnant so you could have, you know, a cheerleader and the quarterback getting married young, you know, they're both at the top of their like social status, but then one of them stagnates. One of them maybe doesn't continue to improve in the same way and the other person does goes to school, gets a great degree and they become kind of bored, you know, and it separates. And that was an interesting

thing. And he also brings up something called Zahebi in signaling, which is all about kind of like showing your wealth because you must be costly. So it gives the example of expensive engagement rings, being three months worth of your salary because if it's too cheap, then it's not worth the price. If you don't have the work hard to get their attention and everyone can do it, then, you know, how in like a dating sense or like a mating sense, how is anybody supposed to know if you're worthy of that kind of attention, which is kind of interesting, you know, brings up the point of like, you know, I'm sure the guy with a Ferrari gets a lot of women in the sense. It's like that's a very expensive item

that not many people can have and it works, you know. They talk also about progressivism in universities, how in a way it's like a religion, you know, these days it's like what the far left defining is, it's kind of like their science, well to deny science, I mean. So it's a belief system. It's like you can, you can not believe in certain types of logic because you believe in this faith-based idea. And Joe says there's always going to be a bunch of people that want to believe in things that aren't true because that makes them seem better than they are. And the fact his life is not fair and that's hard to deal with. So this is like a coping strategy of like fairness in that sense. Lastly, they finished with a bit of a health talk by Joe, but also,

you know, a bit of a rant. He talks about the obese lady that was on Cosmo magazine, not that long ago. And, you know know I'm sure they put it up there to just kind of change the social norms of like what you should look like but Joe makes the point that he's eating herself the death and that's not healthy and you shouldn't encourage other people to get morbidly obese they're going to get a lot of health problems is probably the single most unhealthy thing you can do. He's be greatly overweight for the majority of your life. And you know, it's that sort of thing. And he was asked by Gad if one of his kids started to get big, you know, put on a lot of weight, how Joe deal with it. And Joe gave an interesting

answer. He said he'd look internally to make sure that he wasn't being an overbearing father. You know, it'd be a big project. It's not just like, oh, you've got to tell them to not eat because they get too fat, but, you know, have a look at what's happening in the way that he's raising them that could be causing this health issue. But anyway, it was a really good conversation and a lot of solid information there about just how people are dealing with things. I mean, Gadsad's a super smart guy, so check it out. Thank you for listening and again this review was brought to you by Inca Booch Combucha. Go to Incabooch.com to order your drinks today. Go to IncaBooch.com to order your drinks today.