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Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

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

4.629.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Sam Harris and Scott Adams debate the character and competence of President Trump.

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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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hearing this, you are not currently on our subscriber feed and will only be hearing

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the first part of this conversation. In order to access full episodes of the Making Sense

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Podcast, you'll need to subscribe at samharis.org. There you'll find our private RSS feed

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to add to your favorite pod catcher, along with other subscriber-only content. We don't run ads

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on the podcast, and therefore it's made possible entirely through the support of our subscribers.

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So if you enjoy what we're doing here, please consider becoming one.

0:46.6

Today I am speaking to Scott Adams. Scott was the most requested defender of our commander

0:55.2

in chief. He quite happily was willing to come on the podcast, and we had a very civil and

1:02.6

enjoyable conversation. If anyone was triggered, it was me. Scott certainly sounded like the

1:10.4

the meditator. I am perpetually triggered by our president, but I really enjoyed it, and

1:17.4

I'll let you be the judge of whether Scott answered all the questions I put to him. I think

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there were moments where he might have hypnotized me, and I just moved on to other topics.

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But anyway, thank you, Scott, for coming on. It was a worthy experiment to try to talk about all

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this. Scott, if you don't know him, though many of you surely do, is the creator of Dilbert,

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one of the most popular comic strips of all time. He's done this full time since 1995.

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Before that, he worked for 16 years at various companies from which he has mined all this material

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for Dilbert. He's written bestselling books about Dilbert. His cartoons have been wrapped up,

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but he's also written a book that I have been reading, which we really didn't talk about at all

2:09.9

in this interview. How to fail at almost everything and still win big. This is a book that is filled

2:15.9

with life advice, and it is good advice in so far as I've read it thus far. He has another book coming

2:22.0

out, which really is the substance of our conversation, but that book is not out yet. It'll be out in

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