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#445 — More From Sam: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Billionaires, Thanksgiving Political Debates, & Rapid Fire Questions

18 min episode · 2 min read
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More From Sam

Episode

18 min

Read time

2 min

Topics

Investing, Fundraising & VC, Marketing

AI-Generated Summary

Key Takeaways

  • Social media detachment: Leaving X (Twitter) eliminates controversy cycles entirely—Harris experiences zero impact from Elon Musk's public attacks because he doesn't engage with the platform or its outrage machinery.
  • Political authenticity crisis: Public figures like Musk pivot positions without accountability—Musk called Trump a pedophile over Epstein connections, then returned as a sycophant with no rational explanation for the reversal.
  • Luck and compassion: Mental illness and homelessness demonstrate pure chance in life outcomes—no one earns their brain chemistry, making compassion the only rational response to those suffering visible dysfunction on streets.

What It Covers

Sam Harris discusses Marjorie Taylor Greene's apology, Elon Musk's political pivot back to Trump, social media's diminishing impact, and society's failure to recognize luck's role in success.

Key Questions Answered

  • Social media detachment: Leaving X (Twitter) eliminates controversy cycles entirely—Harris experiences zero impact from Elon Musk's public attacks because he doesn't engage with the platform or its outrage machinery.
  • Political authenticity crisis: Public figures like Musk pivot positions without accountability—Musk called Trump a pedophile over Epstein connections, then returned as a sycophant with no rational explanation for the reversal.
  • Luck and compassion: Mental illness and homelessness demonstrate pure chance in life outcomes—no one earns their brain chemistry, making compassion the only rational response to those suffering visible dysfunction on streets.

Notable Moment

Harris reveals his Portland show may cancel due to poor ticket sales, promising to publicly state the real reason rather than citing vague unforeseen circumstances like other performers.

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Episode Transcript

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. Okay. Welcome back to another episode of more from Sam, Thanksgiving edition, which really doesn't mean anything. It just means happy Thanksgiving to everybody. And if you're not in The US, it just means, happy November. Hi, Sam. How are you? Good. Good. Good to see you. Yeah. Good to see you. It was great seeing you in Chicago last week. I have to say that was by far my favorite show of yours thus far. Yeah. That was fun. It was, a great venue, and, we had some friends there. It was really, it was a blast. Yeah. It's it it felt like it's about 20% different than the one you started with in Chicago. Yeah. Yeah. I keep, revising it as things come into the news and drop out. So yeah. Yeah. It's getting a little tighter as you go too. So Yeah. It's enjoyable to watch that go. I'm starting to know what I think, apparently. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you you had your first heckler too, which was I did. That yeah. Honestly, that is it's possible that's that's the second heckler ever. I mean, it's the first legit heckler. I I had something close to that before, but this is a person who actually had to be escorted out, you know, out years. I I don't think do you know I don't think I've I I did not know until yesterday what her position was. Do you think you know? Well, clearly, she didn't like something I said about Islam. I'm not quite sure how why or how far that ran, but that was the point of contention. That's when she shrieked bullshit, that happened to be on that topic. So Okay. But I'm I was guessing the wrong side. She was actually more to the right No. When No. No. Yes. No. No. We No. No. One one, it's very hard to get to the right of me on this particular point. Well, she yelled out bullshit when you said that Islam is a religion of peace. I don't know what her position was, but it seemed like she yelled it right at that. Okay. So Clearly, I was calling bullshit on that concept. Right? So and I think that was unmistakable, the line I was taking. There's no way she was to the right of me. Okay. I so I originally thought that I mean, being there, I thought that was the position. But then I was I …

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