Gad Saad: The Parasitic Mind
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🗓️ 9 November 2022
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guest is Dr. Gad Saad, Professor of Marketing at Concordia University in Montreal and an evolutionary behavioral scientist.
Dr. Saad is the author of the books The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption, Evolutionary Psychology in the Business Sciences, The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature, and his latest, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense.
He is known for pioneering the use of evolutionary psychology in understanding marketing and consumer behavior. Dr. Saad hosts regular discussions on his YouTube channel, The Saad Truth, and his podcast, The Saad Truth on how idea pathogens are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. You can learn more about Dr. Gad Saad at gadsaad.com
Follow him on Twitter @GadSaad , on Instagram @doctorgadsaad , and on Facebook @Gad Saad
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Danger Close Podcast. |
| 0:08.6 | Beyond the Books with me, Jack Cork. |
| 0:17.7 | Welcome to The Danger Close Podcast, Nionclad Original, presented by Navy Federal Credit Union. |
| 0:22.8 | The title drop video for my upcoming novel Only The Dead can be seen on my YouTube channel |
| 0:28.4 | on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, and it is available for pre-order now. |
| 0:35.2 | My guest today is Gad Zad. |
| 0:38.3 | You may have heard him on the Jill Rogan Experience Podcast where he has been a guest seven |
| 0:42.6 | times. |
| 0:43.6 | He is a professor of marketing at Concordia University in Montreal. |
| 0:48.0 | He's an evolutionary behavioral scientist and he specializes in research utilizing evolutionary |
| 0:53.6 | psychology, understanding marketing, and consumer behavior. |
| 1:06.6 | Fascinating guy. |
| 1:16.8 | How are you, sir? |
| 1:32.6 | No worries at all. |
| 1:34.3 | I'm just honored that you would take the time at all. |
| 1:37.5 | I saw on Twitter earlier, I saw you were delayed, traveling. |
| 1:41.7 | I was half expecting to push it an hour or two or a day or two. |
| 1:46.4 | First I was delayed for the flight to board. |
| 1:51.2 | Then they made us wait 15 minutes in the queue to take off. |
| 1:55.6 | Then they added another 25 minutes. |
| 1:58.1 | Just those three delays are longer than the flight from New York to Montreal. |
| 2:03.9 | Then when we got to Montreal, we were delayed for about 25 minutes for them to get the |
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