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Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris.

A little housekeeping here. First, I just had my town hall event for subscribers. That was a very

interesting experiment. Unfortunately, I had a migraine for it, which was a bit of bad luck, but

other than that, I'm happy to say that I think we nailed the look of the thing. The whole thing

was staged and directed by Stephen Brill, and I think it really is the best-looking live stream

I've ever seen. So the look has been achieved. Now I just need to tinker with the format,

but we will definitely run this experiment again, because I think it looks promising.

I will let you all know when that will happen. Many thanks to Stephen and his team for

doing a more professional job than I could have imagined possible.

And many thanks to my friend Eric Weinstein for joining me on stage.

Let's see what else here. I was just on Cara Swisher's podcast,

Recode, which is produced by Vox Media. That was fascinating. As you might recall,

Cara and I collided on Twitter a little bit, and then we wound up doing a podcast to explore

and process our differences. In my world, that was fine. In her world, it seems to have been quite

controversial. She was immediately day-loved with criticism for having platformed me.

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