You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and

atheistically speaking this is episode 224 and I am your host Thomas Smith.

It's a pleasure to have you with me today.

I've had recently a very good interview with Ishmael from Angry Black Rant.

I've got another fantastic one coming up. I'm excited to tell you about it.

I'll tell you about it at the end of the show.

But I figure now is a good time to do some opinionating. So lacking a better

name for it, let's do some tomentarying. Lots of people have been requesting topics lately and I really appreciate that so feel free to get in contact with me if there's a topic you'd really like me to cover

That being said of course it's no guarantee I actually will who knows if it's going to be interesting or or if indeed I'll have something good to say on it.

But a lot of people asked me whether or not I was going to do commentary on Sam Harris's

podcast with Omer Aziz. Now I'm not going to do a full breakdown of a

three and a half to four hour podcast and everything with it and I just did the one

with Miriam Nemasi but I did want to at least address it because it was a big deal.

And I've been thinking about it and I keep thinking I try to monitor the topics I'm doing.

I don't want to dwell on any one thing too much and

Sam Harris does keep coming up and then I realize well he's the one he's really

an atheist leader who's at least trying to have different conversations and I think

there's a reason he's in the spotlight and I think it's deserved to a large extent even if I don't

always agree with him I at least think he's trying to do

interesting work he's not an echo chamber I don't I don't feel as though I'm

constantly going to be reporting on the same thing.

So there's a reason he's getting a lot of coverage at least on my podcast because there's

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