#438 — "More From Sam": Israel-Hamas Deal, Qatari Air Force Base, Trump, Charlie Kirk, Ezra Klein, & Rapid Fire Questions

Welcome to the Making Sense podcast. This is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're hearing this, you're not currently on our subscriber feed and will only be hearing the first part of this conversation. In order to access full episodes of the Making Sense podcast, you'll need to subscribe at samharris.org. We don't run ads on the podcast, and therefore it's made possible entirely through the support of our subscribers, so if you enjoy what we're doing here, please consider becoming one. Welcome back to another episode of More from Sam, where we get to hear more from Sam. Hello, Sam. How are you? Hey. How's it going? Going well. Going well. Good to see you. Are you, ready for the shows coming up next week in New York and Boston? I am. Yeah. I'm looking forward to that. As you know, I've been changing the talk, incrementally as things happen in the world, so it's kind of a living document at this point, which is fun. I haven't had a I can't really remember having a project like that where it just keeps changing, and I keep it keeps maintaining its its relevance to me because there's a a date on the calendar where I have to deliver it by. So, yeah, it's kinda cool. It is enjoyable because I I get to hear you know, obviously, read the different drafts, and I feel like I'm gonna get to watch it. The the first few shows will be in probably entirely differently or a lot different from the the final shows. Yeah. And speaking of that, well, I kinda just let people know that we're gonna be announcing some some new shows coming up next year. So if anybody wants to get notified about those, please head over to samharris.org and, join the mailing list because we're gonna make that announcement, I think, next week or the week after for 2026. And, anybody who wants to come to Boston, I think that show sold out in a day or two. New York has a few tickets, maybe a dozen or so for next week, October 15, I believe. So come out and join us. Alright. Onto the first topic. Trump got a deal done, and and that's something I don't believe you believe would happen under a president Harris. It pains me somewhat to admit this, but, yes, he he's he's certainly been good for The Middle East and for Israel in a way that I don't think there was any reason to expect Harris to be good. And and Biden certainly wasn't good apart from the first few weeks after October 7 or maybe a couple of months after October 7. He proved quite an unreliable ally there. So, yes, I think Trump, for reasons that are still somewhat inscrutable, I mean, his I think he's also an unreliable ally for Israel. All all the Israelis and the and the and the Jews of …