The Saad Truth about Happiness on Gutfeld! Two-Year Anniversary (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_853)
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Summary
Gutfeld is joined by his daughter to discuss his new book, The Sad Truth About Happiness, The Dad's Sad Truth about Happiness, written by his own father, Dr. Andrew Gutfeld. They also talk about what it's like to be a Canadian immigrant in America, and what it was like growing up in the late 90s and early 00s in Canada.
Transcript
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Hi everybody, this is God Sad for the Sad Truth.
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Two years ago this week, my latest book, The Sad Truth About Happiness, came out.
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And as part of my media tour, I had appeared on Gutfeld the day after the book was released.
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I've never uploaded my appearance on the show, and so here it is.
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Many thanks to my daughter for having edited the episode to only include the segments wherein I feature.
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Hope you enjoy it, and I hope that you think about maybe going out and ordering a copy of this book.
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It's a really fun book filled with all sorts of practical prescriptions on how to live a happy life.
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People call me the happy warrior. There's a reason for that.
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Part of it is genetic. Part of it is the mindsets and the decisions that I've made in my life.
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He's the best Canadian import since Billowing Clouds of Wildfire Smoke.
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Professor and author of the book, The Sad Truth About Happiness, Dad's Sad.
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It looks like a man talking to a 12-year-old boy saying,
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I know. Your mother and I deeply love each other.
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You can still see your original dad, but you answer to me now.
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Isn't that weird that your name influences the things that you do?
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Your name is Sad, but you end up writing a book about happiness.
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You know that in Arabic, Sad means happiness and felicity.
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My name's Gutfeld, and I have so many stomach issues.
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Speaking of corruption, when we first moved from Lebanon to Canada, my dad was constantly
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And so he went around trying to look for the cop that he could grease so that he would
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And when people explained to him that that's not how it's done in Canada, his answer was
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And so what happens is that corruption becomes an endemic part of the cultural values of a
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So it amazes me that now in the United States, I actually went through the corruption perceptions
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If he gets a second term, they're going to head towards Somalia, which is number 180.
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You know, it's one of the Scandinavian countries.
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I mean, if you have to go as a group together to a party, that's kind of lame.
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They don't hear the show here, Katz, or what do I care?
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So, Professor, I feel like the shoplifting isn't the grossest thing about the video, but
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Do you think that there's something happening where it's becoming acceptable?
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Yeah, so I think it's a conflation between deontological and consequentialist ethics.
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Presumption of innocence is something that is inviolable, right?
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You don't say, I believe in presumption of innocence, but not for Brett Kavanaugh.
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If you say the but, then you're going to consequentialism.
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So that's what's happening with this tolerance towards this stuff.
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Instead of saying, we do not tolerate larceny, you're saying, well, if it's in California,
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So by conflating consequentialism and deontological, you've got this kind of stuff.
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At least 18 of those words I never heard before.
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But you're the professor and you've got a beard, so what the hell?
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You know, uh, why is this entertaining, Professor?
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When I can trust that kind of ethical breach that's happening on that show,
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to say what we have to go through when we're trying to pass a study through the review board for ethics.
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We can't ask people anymore the most banal questions because it might hurt someone's feelings.
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So that's the level that we have to reach in terms of our ethical conduct.
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It's unbelievable, the difference in moral standards.
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Reality shows all follow the same patterns, the same music, the same, like, boom, boom.
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Yeah, I'm going to go see, you know, they do The Bachelor, they do, you know, Love Under the Boat, or whatever that is.
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Love Under the Boat, I think that's your own thing.
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All right, Dr. Sack, tell me your animal story.
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One of the chapters in the book is about living life as a playground.
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Put dogs and play, and you've got a beautiful video.
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But that's what, one of the reasons why we love dogs so much is because they share our obsessive love of play.
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So I just got a dog, and I realized that dogs, yeah, well, first one in, like, you know, since the accident.
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But, uh, they play, they have to play with other dogs, don't they?
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Because if they don't, they're missing the really part, they're social animals just like we are, and so we need to interact.
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I mean, I try to play with my dog, but the officer says that's not play.
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Well, I was going to answer an evolutionary reason for why they're doing this.
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So usually in Western societies, you have women engaging in sunbathing because they view it as an aesthetic cue, enhancing cue.
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In the Far East, your skin color is associated with your social status.
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That's why you have a lot of whitening creams in the Far East.
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So these kinds of masks are basically saying, I don't want to get dark because if I get dark, that implies that I am of lower status.