Gad Saad: Oh my Gad, it's the Saadfather!

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 164 minutes

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Summary

Gad Saad is a Professor of Marketing at Concordia University, author of The Consuming Instinct and, more recently, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense. Self described as the 'Gadfather' with a podcast called the Saad Truth, he's certainly well versed in puns on his name. But is Prof. Saad the true Godfather of evolutionary consumption as he claims? or is he more of a Fredo, perpetually getting passed over for other Gurufathers?

Gad is worried about parasitic brain worms that are influencing people's politics, though this affliction seems to correlate pretty strongly with all the liberal political views that Gad dislikes. Indeed, you won't find any discussion of MAGA or QAnon in his extensive bestiary of the pernicious brain-worms that can parasitise your mind. Rather it is 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' that has Gad fretting.

But it isn't all partisan politics, we also get to see Gad draws on his knowledge of evolutionary psychology and unparalleled 'surgical' satirical skills to 'castrate' his opponents. Get ready for a string of anecdotes in which Gad destroys postmodern ideologues with facts and logic, embarrasses pigeon brained academics, and teaches his soccer coach the true meaning of freedom... and then everyone stood up and called!

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0:00.0	You're going to. Oh, Hello and welcome to Decoding the Guru.
0:25.0	It's the podcast.
0:29.0	We're an anthropologist at a psychologist,
0:30.0	listen to the greatest minds the world has to offer. Try our very best to understand
0:34.9	what they're talking about. I'm Professor Matt Brown with me is Associate Professor Chris
0:39.9	Kavanaugh and Chris I don't have a special introduction for you today, but I do have a parable if you will with it which I think contains a special message for both of us.
0:51.0	Regreal me with your insight.
0:54.0	Imagine if you will, a man, perhaps on Twitter or on the internet somewhere and he's cloaked with bad opinions.
1:02.0	He's holding them closely to himself,
1:05.2	protecting himself against the winds and storms of everything that's going on.
1:11.2	Okay, far-fetched, far-fetched and a person with bad opinions on Twitter but I'll try to imagine it. Keep going.
1:18.4	The wind and the sun who are actually people in this parable and have a bet as to who could get him to change his bad opinions.
1:27.5	So they have this friendly bet and the wind blows and buffets this man.
1:37.4	Because, you stupid fecked idiot.
1:40.6	Change those stupid opinions. Take them off. And the man he just holds them ever more tightly to himself and he doesn't take off his code. If anything is he's holding it even tighter and then the sun says all right I'll have a go and he says go on mate come on it's not that bad the The sun's shining. Let's have a barbecue and have a swim. It'll be good. Don't worry about it. The man he starts, does realize he is a bit hot and he does, he takes off his coat and then they all go and have a barbecue in a swim.
2:16.7	Do you think there's a moral to that story?
2:19.4	Chris? I was just blindsided by the deeply offensive ethnic stereotypes.
2:25.4	That's terrible contained.
2:28.4	Jordan Peterson and a lot of the figures we cover are themed for their ability to weave these poetic
2:34.8	metaphors. I just don't think we're a threat to them.
2:39.1	It's true. I didn't know. I don't know why I feel that. I just thought I would mention that but on the topic of the parable I'm a little bit surprised that the man walking around the internet cloaked in is a bad opinions
2:56.6	That he reacted so positively to such a manipulative
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