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🗓️ 29 November 2025
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We set down the Chardonnay at the latest heterodox dinner party and lean in for some hearty ‘civil discourse’ to once again defend the trembling pillars of Western civilization.
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Supplementary Material 40: YouTube Builders, the Discourse Grind, and Sam Harris' Dinner Parties
00:00 Introduction
01:15 Feedback on the Molyneux Episode
10:26 Jordan Peterson still defeated by toxic demon mould
12:16 Steven Pinker's bad takes on Bjorn Lomborg
15:49 Chris vs Sabine
28:21 Grok's insane sycophantic glazing of Elon Musk
33:54 Musk's Psychology
40:59 Sam Harris acknowledges his problem?!?
47:18 Sam continues to wrestle with the interpersonal ethics of criticism
01:05:10 Triggernometry saves Western Civilization
01:15:29 The Wisdom of Francis Foster
01:28:42 Triggernometry's Partisan Outrage at the BBC
01:38:12 Oppressed Men vs. Complaining Women
01:46:29 The YouTube Builders of Western Civilization
01:56:42 Pageau vs Bret Weinstein
02:01:52 Eric Weinstein sensemaking about Cancellation
02:09:58 A PSA about THIS podcast
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Hello and welcome to Recoding the Guru's Supplementary material number 40, Matt, episode 40. |
| 0:33.0 | We've made it here. Matt, the psychologist, Chris, the psychologist slash anthropologist. We're here, |
| 0:39.1 | loud and free, all those kind of things. So, yeah, did you think we'd make it here, Matt, |
| 0:45.5 | back in the days of episode one of supplementary material? |
| 0:50.2 | Episode one. Back in those days. Those heavy days. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, the Halkian days. |
| 0:57.3 | Things were fresh and new. |
| 0:59.1 | I remember then the gurus were just a curious, just a curious little phenomena. |
| 1:04.4 | I didn't think it would become such an all-encompassing, world-threatening thing. But that's thing. But that's all right. That's all right. That's |
| 1:13.1 | all right. It's okay. Chris, Chris, the, uh, the feedback on the Molinue episode, Z has been, uh, |
| 1:22.7 | well, I think generally positive, but people have also expressed a fair, a bit of pain having to listen to that. |
| 1:28.9 | Oh, I see. I thought you were going to say there was a lot of big Molli fans came out. |
| 1:33.3 | In our audience, like, I think you've been a bit unfair to stuff. |
| 1:37.1 | I was like, really? I didn't see that. But yeah, I do think he's a particularly odious |
| 1:43.8 | character. And actually, you know, Matt, when |
| 1:47.0 | this comes out, if you're Jonesing for your next hit of Stefan Mullen, you part two is already |
| 1:52.6 | up on the Patreon. So you can go listen to it there. And doing a bit of, doing a bit of advertising, |
| 2:00.3 | are you? Encouraging people to get to get behind you know so if they have |
| 2:03.7 | the opposite feeling they want more while new in their life it's it's feelable there but it'll be |
| 2:09.7 | out in me and feed i predict i predict zero people will take up that offer i How dare you? I dare you. |
| 2:17.7 | Well, actually, I do have, I've got a little couple of pieces of follow-up with Mullen U. |
| 2:24.3 | So one thing, Matt, was that people, one person, I shouldn't say people, it was just one person. |
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