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The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

My Chat with Former Supervisory Special Agent Jeff Higgins (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_642)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

thesaadtruthwithdrsaad

Society & Culture, Science, Education

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

We discuss Jeff's twenty-five-year law enforcement career including his contribution to the capture and prosecution of the then largest heroin dealer in the world. We also cover Jeff's writing career culminating in his latest book The Forever Game (February 29, 2024). Jeff's website: https://jeffreyjameshiggins.com _______________________________________ My book The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life is now available for order: https://www.amazon.com/Saad-Truth-about-Happiness-Secrets/dp/1684512603 _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad To subscribe to my exclusive content on Twitter, please visit my bio at https://twitter.com/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted earlier today (February 1, 2024) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1653: https://youtu.be/C-fJWaO7I94 _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense.  _______________________________________

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0:00.0

Hi everybody this is Gatsad it's been a few weeks since my last guess but I've got one of the rare guests this time around because I think I only have one other situation where I've interviewed a husband and wife team separately. I've had

0:15.8

Brett and Heather Weinstein on my show, the evolutionary biologist, separately, and I've had my current guest's wife, her name is Cynthia Farahad.

0:26.8

I've had her on twice and today I've got her lovely husband Jeffrey Higgins.

0:31.3

How you doing Jeff?

0:32.3

Oh, thank you doing Jeff?

0:34.1

Oh, thank you for having me. By the way, my wife could be here with me.

0:36.1

It's not like we're having a problem.

0:37.7

She'd be happy to appear with me.

0:40.0

Yeah, she's loved your show,

0:42.0

and you did such a great job interviewing her and everybody else that you've had on this.

0:46.0

I gotta tell you, you're one of the great voices for free speech in the world right now, and it's so important.

0:52.0

I've probably been following you for

0:53.6

close to a decade oh my god thank you so much coming from someone of your

0:58.6

repute it actually means a lot more to me to have a fan such as yourself

1:02.4

than the Stanford and Harvard professors.

1:06.4

Because maybe one doesn't want to have the imprimatur of fellow academics these days because

1:12.0

academia is going through a rough

1:13.5

rough patch right now but I just want to quickly tell people who you are for

1:18.5

those who don't know you you've spent 25 years as a law enforcement of, you know, career. You're now retired.

1:26.7

You were, you're a retired supervisory special agent who was instrumental in capturing the world's

1:32.1

leading heroin dealer from Afghanistan,

1:35.0

Haji Baksho, will talk about that. Now, by the way, I knew of you through your wife,

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