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🗓️ 2 April 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Sam Harris is a public intellectual who inspires strong reactions both positive and negative. Here, Matt and Chris dip their toes into Sam's introspective universe by analysing a recent 9 minute mini-episode of his Making Sense podcast titled 'Some Points of Confusion'. Sam intended to clear up some recurrent misunderstandings he has observed with maybe as much as 99% audience with this episode. What could be causing such a fundamental error and does he succeed in resolving the confusion? Join us to find out.
In the episode you will learn about the true teachings of Jesus, how incredibly niche Chris' undergraduate degree was, the introspective case for social welfare, and why all meditators inevitably deny the existence of free will.
This is an interesting one. And whether you love or hate Sam, we hope you find some value in our non-enlightened ejected introspections.
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0:00.0 | You're going to. And welcome to this special edition of Dakota the Guoas. It's the |
0:26.6 | podcast we're an anthropologist and a psychologist listen to the greatest minds the |
0:30.3 | world has to offer and we try our best to understand what they're talking about. |
0:34.3 | I'm Matt Brown with me is Chris Kavanaugh and so tell me Chris for what special |
0:39.6 | purpose have you called me here today? Well I use the standard incantations to summon you to discuss a fellow that you may have heard of by the name of Sam Harris who's actually on our list of |
0:56.2 | Guru's to do a proper episode on and in the near future but this is going to be something of a taster because he released a nine minute |
1:09.2 | a cast episode which was titled A Few Points of Confusion and for reasons that will become |
1:18.1 | apparent I thought it would be a very nice episode for us to dip our toe into the Sam Harris sphere. |
1:26.0 | Hamas, Sam Harris so sphere. |
1:30.0 | The world of Sam Harris, the wacky world of Sam Harris with this little taster and it's only nine minutes. So how long can we take Matt? |
1:40.3 | That's the question to you. Well, it shouldn't take us more than five, I would expect. |
1:44.8 | I mean, just an eight minute clip. |
1:46.7 | Yeah, usually. |
1:47.7 | That's a, well, I've only got 70 clips from this. |
1:51.0 | Well, despite this being extraordinarily short I haven't even managed to |
1:57.6 | listen to it but I have heard of it but this will be good I can come at a cold and you can tell me all about it and play with the clips. |
2:07.2 | What you're doing, Matt, is you're bringing your kind of crazy wisdom, tantric insight to the topic as you just riff off what you hear. |
2:15.8 | I bring the analytic, rational, doggedly researched perspective and you bring the Australian bombas the heart kicks |
2:25.3 | that why do we just throw it on the fire that's a dynamic play play |
2:29.4 | yeah I'll bring the jazz you can do the drums. Okay, oh, it's differentiated drummers, very brave. |
2:36.0 | So, like I said, this episode was released on March 28th, |
2:41.0 | and the title, A points of confusion might seem a little |
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