#1557 - Gad Saad

Joe Rogan (0:17)

The Gad Fowler.

Gad Saad (0:18)

You too. How you doing, man?

Joe Rogan (0:20)

I miss you, man. It's been a long time. I wish we could do it in studio, but I don't think you're allowed to travel from Canada right now, right?

Gad Saad (0:26)

I'm not, but I'm so worried about your COVID results that, just like my hero Joe Biden told me, I need to wear a mask. What do you think of that, of marketing?

Joe Rogan (0:38)

I like it. The Parasitic Mind mask.

Excellent. Are you selling those?

Gad Saad (0:45)

We will be eventually, but my publisher is still working out all the final details. Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:49)

All right. Beautiful. Beautiful.

Gad Saad (0:50)

I want to know, how are you doing with the COVID? How is the truth seeker Jamie doing?

Joe Rogan (0:55)

Young Jamie's all good to go. He was only really sick for a day because he's young and virile and he takes his vitamin D and zinc and vitamin C and all that stuff. He caught it. We don't know where he caught it. He believes he might have caught it at a bar or on a patio, but really was only sick for a day, but we had to do the right thing. And so we were locked out. He was locked out for 10 days and he had four positive COVID results in a row, now five. Did you get one today? Negative. There were negative results.

Positive for us. Positive in a good way.

Negative, negative in terms of him having the disease, but positive in a good way.

Gad Saad (1:29)

And you've always been negative?

Joe Rogan (1:31)

Yeah, I've always been negative.

Fortunately, yeah. But we're good to go now. So no issues. No one else has gotten it. It's amazing that Jamie is the first person in studio that actually tested positive. We've tested everyone. Today was my 48th test.

I've been tested 48 different times. Yeah.

Gad Saad (1:50)

Is that the invasive one where they really go up and tickle your brain or is it a lot of the less fancy?

Joe Rogan (1:55)

They don't have to do that anymore.

They found that just, I mean, it doesn't feel good, but they just they don't go all the way up. They go kind of midway and they just do it for 10 seconds in each nostril and then they stick it in the machine and you get a result in 15 minutes.

Gad Saad (2:10)

How much has this whole thing affected your life? I mean, other than having to do things remotely and so on.

Joe Rogan (2:15)

It's affected everyone's life, right?

Doing things remotely, we have actually shockingly done not that many remotely. A lot of the people we brought in and just tested everybody. It's just so much better. I mean, you know, when we're face to face, I mean, you and I have been friends for a long time now. How many years have we been doing these things together?

Gad Saad (2:34)

Oh, I don't know, maybe eight years or something.

Joe Rogan (2:36)

It's nice to see you and hug you and to talk and to look each other in the eye, but this is a great second best.

Gad Saad (2:45)

Have the metrics changed in terms of your listeners as a function of whether you do it in person or remotely?

Joe Rogan (2:51)

No, that hasn't changed. The numbers just keep going up because people are at home and they're trapped and they look for content and they also look for honest content. There's not a lot of that shit out there headed up to the election.

Everyone is so twisted and biased and it's just such a weird, weird time. I mean, I just I wanted to be over in hopes that not just the election, but also COVID so that people can get back to work, which I think will calm people down when the financial situation starts to improve. I think people will be less on edge. It's just such a divided time. So it's so unfortunate.

But I think I think we're going to learn a lot from this now. Really do.

Gad Saad (3:37)

Yeah, I hope so, too. I mean, it's been it's been tough over here because I'm on sabbatical this semester.

And it's at the time when my book came out. So I was planning on doing all kinds of, you know, world book tours and also all sorts of stuff. And everything has been shut down. So it's been a bummer. But at least I get to spend more time with the family, I guess.