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Making Sense with Sam Harris

#445 — More From Sam: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Billionaires, Thanksgiving Political Debates, & Rapid Fire Questions

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

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

4.629.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this latest episode of the More From Sam series, Sam and Jaron talk about current events and answer some of the questions you all submitted on Substack. They discuss Marjorie Taylor Greene's recent apology for her role in divisive politics, the Triggernometry interview backlash, wealth inequality, the myth of the self-made man, Sam's conversation with Pastor Doug Wilson, the politics of Sam's audience, and strategies for navigating difficult political conversations over Thanksgiving.

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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 hearing this, you're not currently on our subscriber feed, and we'll only be hearing the first part of this conversation. In order to access full episodes of the Making Sense podcast, you'll need to

0:21.5

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0:26.5

possible entirely through the support of our subscribers. So if you enjoy what we're doing here,

0:31.2

please consider becoming one.

0:35.8

Okay, welcome back to another episode of more from Sam, Thanksgiving edition, which really doesn't mean anything.

0:41.9

It just means happy Thanksgiving to everybody.

0:43.8

And if you're not in the U.S., it just means happy third week of November.

0:48.6

Hi, Sam.

0:49.0

How are you?

0:49.9

Good, good and good to see you.

0:51.7

Yeah, good to see you.

0:52.3

It was great seeing you in Chicago last week.

0:53.8

I have to say that was by far my favorite show of yours thus far.

1:13.2

Yeah, that was fun. It was a great venue, and we had some friends there. It was really a blast. Yeah, it felt like it's about 20% different than the one you started with in Chicago. Yeah, yeah, I keep revising it as things coming to the news and drop out. So yeah.

1:14.2

Yeah, it's I keep revising it as things come into the news and drop out.

1:13.3

So, yeah.

1:14.2

Yeah, it's getting a little tighter as you go, too.

1:16.2

So it's enjoyable to watch that go.

1:18.2

I'm starting to know what I think, apparently.

1:20.9

Well, you had your first heckler, too, which was...

1:24.4

Honestly, that is...

1:26.6

It's possible that's the second heckler ever. I mean, it's the first legit heckler. I had something close to that before, but this is a person who actually had to be escorted out, you know, I don't think... Do you know, I don't think I... I did not know until yesterday what her position was. Do you think you know? Well, clearly she didn't like something I said about

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