#279 — The Rules of the Stage

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

Samharris, Currentevents, Politics, Ethics, Religion, Neuroscience, Science, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 29.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris and Ricky Gervais discuss the infamous Oscar slap.

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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
0:12.3	hearing this, you are not currently on our subscriber feed and will only be hearing
0:16.4	the first part of this conversation. In order to access full episodes of the Making Sense
0:20.9	Podcast, you'll need to subscribe at SamHarris.org. There you'll find our private RSS feed
0:26.4	to add to your favorite pod catcher, along with other subscriber-only content. We don't
0:31.0	run ads on the podcast, and therefore it's made possible entirely through the support
0:34.8	of our subscribers. So if you enjoy what we're doing here, please consider becoming one.
0:46.3	Okay, this is an episode that we were very slow to release due to events outside of our
0:53.4	control. We've created an app for the absolutely mental podcast, which is currently available
1:00.1	on iOS only, and it's now in the App Store, except that got delayed because strangely,
1:07.4	the powers that be at Apple thought that we were impersonating Sam Harris and Ricky
1:13.2	Jervais and stealing the intellectual property of those esteemed gentlemen. So it took
1:19.3	some time to actually get the app situated, and that's what took so long to release this
1:25.3	conversation, where I get Ricky's reaction to the infamous Oscar slap. Obviously we're
1:33.3	a little late to the party here, but I think the conversation has aged well, and it was
1:38.4	great to get Ricky's take on all this. He was actually trending on Twitter immediately
1:44.4	after the event itself. He seemed to be the third person on Earth people most wanted to
1:50.2	hear from at that moment. And I don't believe he has said anything at length since. So for
1:56.0	better or worse, here's our conversation about Will Smith, Chris Rock, and all things related
2:01.6	to the ethics and psychological weirdness of that moment. As always, it's great to talk
2:08.0	to Ricky. If you want more of us, you can find us at absolutely mental.com, where we have
2:13.9	now three seasons of that podcast. Also, if you're on iOS, you can download the absolutely
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