#045 What’s The Biggest Threat To Freedom? Islam Or Consumerism (with Sam Harris)

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

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🗓️ 3 February 2018

⏱️ 124 minutes

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In a bumper 2 hour episode neuroscientist, author and fellow podcaster Sam Harris and I discuss the effects and rationality of religious belief, the illusion of freedom, Western intervention in the Middle East and where true power lies.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Under the Skin with me Russell Brand in which I ask what's beneath the surface of people we admire,
0:04.8	of the ideas that define our time of the history we are told. Today, you show his sponsored by my book Recovery,
0:10.2	which is available now. You should and could order it on Amazon is a good book and yeah,
0:16.0	have a look at it. You can also get the audio book by the way on Audible. And also, I think I'd like more
0:19.5	people to get it as a Kindle. Would you mind getting it on a Kindle? Really on a Kindle.
0:24.3	But now, after all this mindless commerce, it's time for Under the Skin.
0:39.7	Sam Harris is a writer, neuroscientist, philosopher and host of the podcast, Wake in Up with Sam Harris.
0:58.4	He's written five New York Times best sellers covering a range of topics from neuroscience and
1:02.8	religion to violence and human reasoning. These include the end of faith, letter to a Christian nation,
1:08.4	free will and the moral landscape. He's the co-founder and chief executive of project reason and
1:14.0	nonprofit organization that promotes science and secularism and has argued that science can
1:18.7	determine moral values. He's previously studied both Eastern and Western religious traditions,
1:23.6	including Buddhism, Hinduism, making several trips to India and Nepal. He is now a proponent of
1:28.6	secular meditation practices. He's vegetarian, practices Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and is married with two
1:34.0	daughters and has a correction. I'm going to have to recant on the vegetarianism. You're
1:37.8	recant in the vegetarianism. For the moment, unfortunately. Apostasy. Yeah, yeah. Well, it's exactly
1:43.4	like apostasy. Well, welcome. Thank you. Regardless of the embrace. The abattoir that I'm trailing
1:52.6	by. Yeah, yeah. Thanks for coming on. I've talked to you for such a long time. Oh yeah, and I've
1:59.3	heard from so many of our mutual audience members that we should be getting together. So
2:04.0	because I suppose in the works for a long time. Yeah, yeah. We'll exist in that sort of in the
2:10.0	sonic boom created by Joe Rogan perhaps. Yeah, yeah, maybe. How do you want Joe Rogan? I listen to
2:15.6	waking up. Yeah, and I've heard a bunch of Europe stuff. I saw you on Joe Rogan as well. So Joe is
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