#45 — Ask Me Anything 5

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 13 September 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Sam Harris answers questions from listeners about how 9/11 changed his life, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, free will, why he podcasts, Milo and the alt-Right, identity politics, Clinton vs. Trump, vegetarianism, and the Hannibal Buress episode.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're
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0:46.8	So I put out a call for questions for this podcast on social media and got literally thousands
0:54.4	of questions. That level of response is just amazing. It'll say I will only be able to answer
1:00.4	the tiniest fraction of them. All I can say is that I hope people don't get discouraged
1:06.4	by this. Please just keep asking your questions whenever I put out a call for an AMA and ask
1:11.4	me anything podcast. And eventually your question or something similar will get addressed. In fact,
1:17.4	I often get many questions on the same topic and rather than answer any specific one, I just fuse
1:23.5	a bunch of them together, which I've done here in many cases. There were many questions about
1:28.4	meditation practice that strike me as too esoteric for the podcast. I don't want to assume an interest
1:35.0	in meditation that is deeper or broader than it actually is. So those are the kinds of questions
1:41.1	I'll deal with in my meditation app that is still being born. Many of you have asked about an
1:46.8	ETA on the app, where the hell is it? Apologies again, this is coming more slowly than I expected.
1:54.2	But it really is coming. In addition to guided meditations, the app will have short talks on
1:59.9	relevant topics. So there'll be an expanding curriculum of meditations and lessons that I'm really
2:06.5	looking forward to building. But the platform has to be working first and it is coming along.
2:11.8	I'm hoping to start a beta test in the next couple of weeks. And I know I said that a couple of
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