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becoming one. Welcome back to another episode of More From Sam, where we get to hear more from Sam.

Hello, Sam. How are you?

Hey, how's it gone?

Going well. Going well.

Good to see you.

Are you ready for the shows coming up next week in New York and Boston?

I am. Yeah, I'm looking forward to that.

As you know, I've been changing the talk incrementally as things happen in the world.

So it's kind of a living document at this point, which is fun. I haven't had a, I can't even remember having a project like that where it just keeps changing.

And it keeps maintaining its relevance to me because there's a date on the calendar where I have to deliver it by. So, yeah, it's kind of cool.

It is enjoyable because I get to hear, you know, obviously read the different drafts, and I feel

like I'm going to get to watch a, the first few shows will be probably entirely differently or a lot

different from the final shows. Yeah. And speaking of that, I kind of just let people know that we're

going to be announcing some new shows

coming up next year. So if anybody wants to get notified about those, please head over to samharris.org and join the mailing list because we're going to make that announcement, I think next week or the week after for 2026. And anybody who wants to come to Boston, I think that show sold out in a day or two. New York

has a few tickets, maybe a dozen or so for next week, October 15th, I believe. So come out and

join us. All right. On to the first topic, Trump got a deal done. And that's something I don't

believe you believe would have happened under a president Harris. It pains me somewhat to admit

this, but yes, he's certainly been good for the Middle East and for Israel in a way that I don't think there was any reason to expect Harris to be good. And Biden certainly wasn't good, apart from the first few weeks after October 7th or maybe a couple of months after October 7th, he proved quite an unreliable ally there.

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