#197 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 12 April 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Caitlin Flanagan. They discuss the different sorts of experiences people are having during the Covid-19 pandemic, what it has exposed about our education system, the 2020 election and the many problems with Joe Biden, why the press has been slow to cover Biden’s #MeToo allegation, the perceived double standards in the press and within feminism, and other topics.

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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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0:48.7	I am here with Caitlin Flanagan. Caitlin, thank you for joining me. Thank you for having
0:53.0	me. If people only knew how difficult it was
0:56.1	under pandemic conditions to get a valid connection, this has been brutal, but you're
1:02.4	inheriting my bad tech karma because I just break technology wherever I go. Oh, I assumed
1:08.3	that you always had perfect connections. No. It's just bad luck, but it happens enough
1:14.2	that I'm used to it. But it's great to have you here. And I actually, I did go out on
1:20.4	Twitter when we first scheduled this and we got some hundreds of questions. I have a few
1:25.0	of those seated in here, but let's just start with what's on your mind and what this
1:30.8	experience of quarantine has been like for you thus far.
1:33.7	Well, the first one is say, Sam, that I think you saved my life because I have, I am a
1:39.2	person that has all these underlying conditions. And I was not taking this seriously as so many
1:46.8	people were not. And I'd even been, you know, I have to go to the doctor a lot and I'd
1:50.6	even ask the nurse, you know, what about this COVID or corona? Is this a problem? And she
1:55.6	said, oh, it's not a problem. It's a flu. And you just take some, you know, you drink
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