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The One w/ Greg Gutfeld

The Parasitic Mind with Dr. Gad Saad

The One w/ Greg Gutfeld

FOX News Radio

Comedy, Society & Culture, News

4.23.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Greg’s guest today is Dr. Gad Saad who is a Professor of Marketing at Concordia University and former holder of the Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Darwinian Consumption. He is also the host of The Saad Truth podcast. They discuss his new book, "The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense." Learn more about Dr. Saad: https://www.gadsaad.com/ Follow Dr. Saad on Twitter: @GadSaad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey everybody, it's Greg Gutfeld. I am excited, as always, to have here with me today,

0:38.4

Dr. Gad Sad, who is professor of marketing at Concordia University and the former holder

0:43.4

of the Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Darwinian

0:49.3

Consumption. Before him, it was Ruth Busy. That's a terrible joke because it doesn't make

0:54.0

any sense. He's also the host of the Sad Truth Podcast and he's here to talk about his

0:59.2

new, fantastic, insightful book, The Parasitic Mind, what a great title. How infectious ideas

1:08.3

are killing common sense. How you doing, Doc?

1:11.4

Oh, I'm doing so well, so good to be with you again, Greg.

1:15.1

It is my pleasure. I want to ask you first off, a fairly, I don't know, maybe it's a dumb

1:20.9

question, but there are no such things as dumb questions I've been told. You talk about

1:26.4

idea pathogens that are killing common sense and rational debate, which I believe you're

1:32.0

absolutely right is true. I want to ask you, is this an analogy or is this the actual

1:37.8

thing? Analgy is the actual thing? Or is this actually, could you actually show that

1:44.8

this is a pathogen? Is that a weird question?

1:47.8

Well, it's an actual pathogen in that it is rewiring your neuronal circuitry because

1:55.4

you behave in maladaptive ways. In the same way that for example, someone who suffers from

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