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and welcome to serious inquiries only. This is episode number 70 and I'm your host Thomas Smith. All right, it's a commentary day and I there's a lot I could talk about there's a lot of Trump news always but get to talk about something a little different.

Douglas Murray was again on Sam Harris's podcast and they both said some really just

terrible things in my mind so I'm going to play a couple clips and talk about it and then I got a few

voicemails so let's get right over to it.

I think I'll give it another college try on the whole getting Sam Harris to listen to something

so I'll just just in case I doubt it'll be true but just in case Sam happens to listen to this

Sam Harris I have been a fan of yours for so long I have I have all of your books

I've listened to every episode of your show except Gad's

sad because he's terrible.

But other than that, I've listened to every episode.

I never miss it.

I just say that to emphasize that like I am a fan.

This isn't some like attack thing that I'm trying to do because I don't like Sam. I'm not trying to be

Uncharitable with his words. I'm not your Glenn Greenwald or your Riza Aslan trying hard to take things out of context and spin things because of some agenda against him.

I like Sam Harris. I've been on the record for years saying that I like Sam Harris,

but this last episode was so bad. So in the wake of Charlottesville, Sam Harris had tweeted.

In 2017, all identity politics is detestable, but surely white identity politics is the most detestable of all.

And I, yeah obviously I disagree with the first part of that tweet.

That's for more conversation on that later in the episode.

But given that you, like if you were coming from that premise that,

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