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Professor of Marketing and Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioural Sciences and Darwinian Consumption, Montreal* *this account is managed by a Gadfella, not Prof. Gad Saad. As such, all questions will be answered with a bit of a delay Please consider donating to his Patreon All links provided on this page point directly to Prof. Gad Saad's own content
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Series of annual radio lectures on significant contemporary issues, delivered by leading figures from the relevant fields
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Welcome to the 'YunkJunks Podcast! If you are looking for a fresh take on sports talk, you have come to the right place. This podcast is aggressive, opinionated, (hopefully comical), and definitely NSFW. No cap here. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yunkjunks/support
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Two brothers. A bunch of trivia questions. Everything’s on the line when the pub quiz and sibling rivalry come together like never before!
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Some months ago, I had a tweet that went viral on what it means for a woman to say “I’m not going to sleep with you.” I followed this up with an article about the video, and Rob later responded to both. Rob and I decided we needed to talk about this. It turned out to be a fascinating discussion, and one that provides a great deal of useful advice t…
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Today on the podcast, I am joined by Scott Greer. You can find him on X, Substack, and YouTube. Scott and I have a bit of shared history. We both wrote for very politically incorrect websites around the same time. He was outed back in 2018, which led to him losing his job at the Daily Caller. As Scott points out, few of the things he said under a p…
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Bryan Caplan joins me to talk about his new graphic novel Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation. We basically agree here that NIMBYism is a straightforward case of bad government policy standing in the way of markets being able to provide goods and services people want. Bryan makes the case that housing is one of the most…
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I share some thoughts on JD Vance being selected as Trump’s running mate. One thing we can say is that, for better or worse, this is the most exciting pick he could have made. People with unorthodox ideas and without the approval of mainstream institutions have more of an opportunity to have a cultural and policy impact than before. This is far fro…
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Hannah is a friend of mine and a successful career woman who lives in a major American city. She describes her job as an “influencer,” which I think undersells all that she does. Regardless, Hannah joins the podcast to talk about two things. First, we discuss what’s been going on with Biden. We really are in uncharted territory. I can’t hide my bia…
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One straightforward explanation for why people have fewer kids these days is opportunity costs. Life used to be pretty boring. You lived in a small village and didn’t travel all that much, so creating life might be one of the only ways to even meet new people. Today, we have many more chances for fun, recreation, and adventure. This theory explains…
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S1E10: That's Why They're Called The Hunger Games
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Wow, it's the finale already. Harley and Jasper have travelled all the way to New York* and are now ready to see off season one in style, examining reincarnation, fast food slogans, Young Sheldon and more. Thanks for joining us for season one, we'll be back soon! Get in touch at triviachamptriviachump@gmail.com or on Instagram @triviachamportriviac…
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Some are calling it the most ultimate penultimate episode you'll ever hear. Harley and Jasper take a look at bank notes, BASE jumping, naming your children after TV shows and more in the second-last episode of season one. Plus, one of the show's producers gets fired live on air and Harley tells us about his (alleged) criminal connections! Get in to…
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The boys are back in trivia town after a lowly-publicised hiatus. Harley and Jasper take a look at paper planes, soft drinks, shindig addiction and more. Let your mum know if you want to listen and she can talk to our mum. Get in touch at triviachamptriviachump@gmail.com or on Instagram @triviachamportriviachump…
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In the last show before their somewhat well-earned mid-season break, Harley and Jasper take a look at Presidential UFO sightings, Italian restaurants, The Masked Singer and more. Giddy up, it's trivia time! Get in touch at triviachamptriviachump@gmail.com or on Instagram @triviachamportriviachumpBy triviachamptriviachump
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WARNING: Hey guys. In this episode, the run-sheet moved from joking about Tony Abbott wearing budgie smugglers, into a question about the bombing of Hiroshima. There's a bit of laughter at this point of the episode, but please know that neither of us thinks atomic warfare is funny, and that we were only laughing at the very sudden shift in tone bet…
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Giddy up, it's trivia time! On this episode, Harley and Jasper take a look at the mile high club, activewear and Harley does the Hotline Bling dance live in the studio. It's the podcast episode that no parent can afford to miss. Get in touch at triviachamptriviachump@gmail.com or on Instagram @triviachamportriviachump…
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In this final episode of Season 5, Sarah, Mark, and James discuss the last chapters from Lucy Cooke's book Bitch: On the female of the species. Sarah described the sex lives of barnacles and encouraged us to watch the Green Porno episode that illustrates the impressive size of a barnacle penis. Image from https://bodegahead.blogspot.com/2017/06/a-l…
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Someone call Rob Schneider, because it's Deuce Brothero: Podcast Trivio! Harley and Jasper discuss birthdays, The Spice Girls, people naming their children after politicians and so much more on Trivia Champ Or Trivia Chump, a podcast your mum will love if she is also our mum. Get in touch at triviachamptriviachump@gmail.com or on Instagram @triviac…
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Uh oh. You frickin' moron. You just got trivia-ed! Tag a friend to totally trivia them. In this week's episode, Harley and Jasper discuss cool people, countries without airports, paying reality television personalities to tell your friends they suck and more! Get in touch at triviachamptriviachump@gmail.com or on Instagram @triviachamportriviachump…
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S1E2: Mario - The Apprenticeship Origins
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Back by popular* demand, brothers Harley and Jasper look at rugby players getting kicked in the face, Darwin drug busts, Dunkin' Donuts and more in the second episode of a podcast that critics are calling "Trivia Champ or Trivia Chump". Spoiler below about the last question! Get in touch at triviachamptriviachump@gmail.com or on Instagram @triviach…
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Walk into the club and these two guys start asking your girl trivia questions. What do you do? On podcast debut, brothers Harley and Jasper explore record-breaking hot dogs, Fraser Anning's head, penny farthings and much more. Get in touch at triviachamptriviachump@gmail.com or on Instagram @triviachamportriviachump…
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In this episode Sarah, Mark and James continue their discussion of the book Bitch by Lucy Cooke where they explore menopause in humans and non-human animals and discuss those animals that have forwent males when they reproduce. The first conversation explored how orcas are an unusual mammal in that the males do not disperse from their mother's pod,…
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In this episode Sarah, Mark, and James continue their coverage Bitch by Lucy Cooke. We discussed systems where female aggression was common and the subjugation of other females and males was done by "alpha" females. We were surprised to learn how murderous and violent naked mole rats and sweet little meercats could be. Photo from Akron ZooNaked mol…
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We continue our discussion of Lucy Cooke's book entitled Bitch: On the female of the species focusing on chapters 5 & 6 which covered variation in female genitalia, the evolution of the human penis, and maternal care. We spent some time talking about the baculum, a bone that is found in the penis of many mammals, but not in humans. Sarah described …
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In this episode we continue our conversation based upon Chapters 3 & 4 of Lucy Cooke's book Bitch: on the female of the species. We started off the conversation doing a deep dive on the famous Bateman experiment that purported to reveal 3 principles concerning variation in male and female reproductive success and how those differences drive sexual …
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We have returned from a long hiatus to discuss a wonderful book entitled Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke. Sarah asked James and Mark to read this book that gives an updated look at Darwin's original model of sexual selection, a topic we covered extensively in Season 4. In this episode we cover the introduction and first 2 chapters…
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In this final episode of Season 4, Mark, Sarah, and James finally critiqued Darwin's analysis of secondary sexual characteristics in humans and his clumsy attempt to apply his model of sexual selection in explaining the diversity of forms in what Darwin called "races" and we call geographically distinct phenotypes (GDPs). We found that Chapters 19 …
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After a long COVID induced hiatus, we have returned to tackle the meaty middle of Charles Darwin's magnum opus The Descent of Man. It was actually most of Volume 2, three hundred and nineteen pages of anecdotes, observations, wild conjecture, and chuck'splaining his crazy system of inheritance. The dense plodding Victorian prose was diluted, a bit,…
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In this episode we dive into Chapter 8 from Darwin's Descent of Man. James incorrectly attributed this chapter to the end of Volume I of the two volume set but it is actually the first chapter of Volume II, which makes more sense given its dramatic shift in focus and topic. Sarah tried to get us to differentiate between adaptive traits that come ab…
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image from:https://www.artsales.com/ARTistory/angelic_journey/index.html In this bonus episode we return to our conversation with our favorite ex-monk philosopher friend Dr. Jack Furlong where he discusses whether angels, as described in scripture, could actually be moral. We then briefly discuss the Yale baby lab where clever behavioral experiment…
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In this episode we finally confront Chapter 7 of Descent of Man, entitled On the Races of Man. In this chapter Darwin discusses the races of humans and outlines the scientific arguments of the time that questioned if humans are more than one species. These arguments, of course, were based upon racist European views of the people from the lands thei…
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Mark, Sarah, and James discuss Chapter 6 of Charles Darwin's Descent of Man. In this chapter Darwin unequivocally declares humans evolved from ancestral primate stock and that event occurred in Africa. We discussed how prescient Darwin was in interpreting the biology and scant fossil record in determining human relationship in the evolutionary tree…
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In this episode we enlist a different Furlong, Dr. Jack Furlong, to help us untangle morality and determine if there really is such a thing as big M morality, as Sarah calls it. Jack, after a very in depth explanation, says "No". Jack invokes the classic Trolley thought experiment to illustrate why various historical positions on mo…
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In Chapter 4 Darwin begins to sketch out his views on how complicated human behaviors, like sacrifice, empathy for others, and group defense would evolve when selection would favor us to act otherwise. Chapter 4 is entitled Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals - continued, but the short title at the top of the page is Moral …
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In this episode we discuss Chapter 3: The Mind from Darwin's Descent of Man. We are joined by a very special guest - Dr. Ellen Furlong from Illinois Wesleyan University who studies cognition in dogs. In this chapter Darwin spends some time going through a litany of traits that he associates with intelligence. His goal is to get the reader to recogn…
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In this episode we discuss Chapter 1 of Descent of Man and are joined by a special guest - Evolutionary developmental (EvoDevo) biologist Dr. Belinda Sly. Darwin spends the chapter documenting how human bodies show the scars from evolution past. Darwin takes two approaches in convincing the reader that humans are modified from "lower forms". In one…
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/ This is the first episode of Season 4 where we begin our exploration of Charles Darwin's Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex which was published in 1871. In this episode we explore how Darwin finally got around to discussing the evolution of humans, a topic he avoided in Origin of Species even though he t…
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