4.8 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2015
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Author Johann Hari (@johannhari101) was stateside recently to return as a guest on Real Time with Bill Maher, and he invited Matt and Andy over to his hotel room to talk about the emotional deafness of the rich, his book Chasing The Scream and the failed 100-year war on drugs, the government's persecution of Billie Holliday, new theories of addiction, Rat Park, Portugal's radical policy changes and the way to sell America on drug decriminalization.
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0:00.0 | Probably Science |
0:02.0 | Welcome to Probably Science. |
0:13.0 | Hey, we're not in the backyard. |
0:17.1 | No, we're not. |
0:18.2 | We're somewhere very different. |
0:19.4 | Far better. |
0:20.3 | Far. |
0:21.9 | As the Brits would say, we are somewhere far better much way better we're joined by by johan harry who we worked out we were working out |
0:30.9 | we were working up before the show that we've half met many times over about 10 15 years |
0:35.5 | through numerous mutual friends but never actually hung out |
0:38.9 | for any particular time. |
0:39.8 | If this was a Robert Altman film, we would be like intersecting stories where we never |
0:44.0 | quite cross. |
0:44.6 | Never quite. |
0:45.8 | And right now, on Bill Ma's dime, we're currently in the four seasons Beverly Hills. |
0:53.1 | I was so glad you pointed out that it's not like, |
0:55.0 | I don't want to say like a swanky wanker who stays in the hotel. |
0:57.0 | I stayed in an Airbnb in Santa Monica that was definitely not like this before I |
1:00.9 | came to this hotel. |
1:01.7 | So I would like to point out. |
1:03.3 | How many four seasons nights do you get for promoting a book on? |
1:07.6 | Actually, you're meant to get one, but I somehow managed to wrangle four. I don't quite understand how that happened. Whoa, good luck. They are super nice to people who work with him. That's |
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