#2263 - Gad Saad

SPEAKER_1 (0:03)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Gad Saad (0:06)

Trained by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day. Joe Rogan.

Joe Rogan (0:13)

Good to see you again.

Gad Saad (0:14)

You're gorgeous.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

You are too, you beautiful bastard. Shut up. Come on.

Gad Saad (0:18)

Can I read you something?

Joe Rogan (0:19)

Oh, okay. You want to read me something?

Gad Saad (0:20)

This is from my son, just before I came on the show. Hi, daddy. I was wondering if the show will be live anywhere. And tell Joe that I say hello and I love his show. Oh, thank you. You just made his life.

Joe Rogan (0:33)

How old is he?

Gad Saad (0:35)

Well, last week was his bar mitzvah.

Joe Rogan (0:37)

Oh, so he's 13

Gad Saad (0:38)

He's 13

Joe Rogan (0:39)

Okay.

Gad Saad (0:39)

And it was...

Joe Rogan (0:40)

That's about the age you shouldn't be listening to my show yet. You used to disturb me when I would meet my youngest daughter's friends when they were before high school.

Gad Saad (0:52)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:52)

And they would say they love my podcast. I was like, jeez, this is really not for you. Like some of these subjects, it's not for you. But the kids today, they're not 12-year-olds when I was a 12-year-old.

Gad Saad (1:04)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:04)

These kids have a far more advanced understanding of the world, for good or for bad.

Gad Saad (1:10)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:11)

Probably... I mean, I don't know if it's good or bad because I mean, I think our childhood, we were more exposed to things than our parents were. I don't necessarily think that's bad. So why would I think it's bad for kids today?

Gad Saad (1:24)

I think the explosion though is... You could go on and see porn that you and I don't even know they exist.

Joe Rogan (1:30)

Yeah, it is an issue. Yeah. That most certainly is a problem. But I don't know if it's worse or better.

Gad Saad (1:37)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:38)

You know what I'm saying? Like, I would rather have the loss of innocence that I had as a 14-year-old than the loss of innocence my parents had. I think they just lived in a more ignorant time. And with knowledge, you're also going to get all the bad stuff. Like, I see a lot of assassination videos.

Gad Saad (1:58)

Okay. You know, it's funny you say the age of innocence because I've always said that the two things that protect me in life were my Belgian shepherds whom I love. And I saw, by the way, that you were talking recently about Belgian Malinois.

Joe Rogan (2:13)

Yeah.

Gad Saad (2:13)

So, my kids have grown up with, by the way, the Belgian Malinois is one of four types of Belgian shepherds. The only difference across the four types is that the Belgian Malinois has short hair, whereas the ones that we had have long hair. They even look more wolfish, more intimidating.

Joe Rogan (2:27)

Scary dogs.

Gad Saad (2:28)

And so anyways, so I always said that the two things that protect me when I sort of entered the sanctity of my home was the love of my family, my Belgian shepherds, and the innocence of my children. Because, you know, the world out there is ugly, and then you go back home. And so once that becomes polluted, because they just know more, I feel like I'm losing part of them.

Joe Rogan (2:54)

That's interesting. I don't think you should think that way. I think they're human beings, and you should want them to know things. It's just that we enjoy the position of being the person that has all the deep, dark knowledge of the world, and dealing with this innocent child that wants to watch Dora the Explorer. You know, do-do-do-dora.

Gad Saad (3:16)

Peppa Pig.

Joe Rogan (3:17)

Yeah, Peppa Pig, all those kind of shows. And there's, you know, there's something beautiful in watching a little person learn stuff about the world, and shocking when they find out about like murders, and danger, and scary things, and you know, and then their realm of knowledge expands to, you know.

Gad Saad (3:36)

What amazes me is seeing my children get a political awakening. So my son, who's really precautious, he's 13, my daughter's 16 She wasn't as into it, but during the last US elections, maybe because of the TikTok stuff and so on, she became, she sort of woke up to it, and she would come to me and say, you know, why do we like Trump? Why don't we like? And so I saw an awakening in her that my son already had. I mean, he literally will sit with me, watch. I mean, Tucker is no longer on, but he would watch Tucker with me and have conversations with me when he was 11, 12 My daughter came a bit later into the game, but it's so rewarding to see them wake up to these things and have meaningful conversations with me on these topics. It's beautiful.