Hello, you found the portal. I'm your host Eric Weinstein, and we're here today with my good friend Sam Harris. Sam, thanks for coming by.

Thank you. That's great. So first question, are you in any trouble that I don't know about?

I don't think so. I think you know what trouble I get into as I get into it. I often look to you for...

Well, occasionally I get a call from you, and you say, I'm thinking about getting the following form of trouble to rock me out of it.

I'm going to try, and if it happens that I'm not there for an hour and a half, I get another call saying, too late.

I remember one that a vacation that was unraveling, and I was calling you from literally poolside in Hawaii.

Yeah, the one vacation I had taken with my family in a year, and I was poised to ruin it and ruin it I did.

And I don't blame you for it, but whatever council you gave me did not prevent the unraveling of a vacation.

Well, I'm here to afford you the opportunity to ruin a future vacation, but let's try to avoid it if we can.

I'm just curious, first of all, I've taken your advice and Tim Ferris and Joe Roganson started this podcast.

You were actually the first person I sat down with, but I had so little idea what I was doing that we blocked out the windows.

We had an uncomfortable table in front of the Feng Shui.

The Feng Shui was completely off.

Yeah, we had an Adam's family podcast.

Exactly.

So we're trying things. I'm learning a little bit.

But first of all, any any time you want to flip the tables on me, I'm game two.

What is top of mind for you at the moment, or should we show I can go into some topics that I'm curious about?

I'm going to show whatever you want to go.

This is your show.

Okay, so one of the things that I'm starting to think about is doing a little bit of retrospective work, trying to think about where our world, our country is.

We're going into another electoral cycle.

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