#405 — "More From Sam": Tariffs, SignalGate, Trump, Elon, Douglas Murray, & Joe Rogan
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Waking Up with Sam Harris
4.6 • 29.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
By far the most common feedback we hear from you guys is the following: “We want more from Sam.” More of his thoughts on current events, more frequently. So that’s what we’re trying here, with this new exploratory series we've creatively titled “More From Sam.” Sam jumped on with his manager and business partner, Jaron Lowenstein, to run through some of the topics you all suggested. They discuss tariffs, SignalGate, Trump, Elon, Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman, The All-In podcast, Sam’s upcoming podcast with Douglas Murray, and more.
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| 1:13.3 | Welcome to the Making Sense podcast. This is Sam Harris. We're trying something new here today. In this episode, I'm answering questions based on the topics that many of you submitted over on Substack. And if this goes well, we'll do more of this in the future. The voice you hear is that of my manager and business partner, Jaron Lowenstein. Jaron sat down with me to discuss the questions we fielded from the community chat at Substack. |
| 1:17.8 | I think there were some 4,000 comments, so this is just the tip of the iceberg. |
| 1:24.9 | But many of you have been calling for me to respond more quickly to topical events. |
| 1:30.0 | So that is the experiment we are performing for you today. This is audio from the video that we recorded and subscribers can watch the full video and comment and submit |
| 1:35.3 | further topics over on my substack page. Enjoy. |
| 1:39.3 | So let's start with what the hell is going on. |
| 1:48.1 | How's your stock portfolio, Sam? |
| 1:51.4 | Well, this is looking expensive. |
| 1:53.3 | I just looked at the economist cover story editorial, |
| 1:58.1 | which was as bad as withering as you could imagine. |
| 2:02.9 | They called the Day of Liberation uh the day of liberation the day of ruination and um yeah i mean obviously i'm not an economist i just know that |
| 2:09.0 | the vast majority of economists think this is an insane self-inflicted wound uh i guess time will |
| 2:17.0 | tell but it certainly seems that way. |
| 2:20.1 | I mean, it's just crazy that one person's fixation on tariffs can accomplish this for us. |
| 2:27.9 | I don't know who really wanted this, but it's, we seem to be running a global experiment on the economy. And, yeah, |
| 2:38.3 | I mean, you know, could he be proven right in the end? I guess it's possible, but it's against |
| 2:43.7 | the grain of seemingly all of economic understanding of the last hundred years. |
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