Yuval Harari Returns Again

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 69.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

Yuval Noah Harari (Sapiens, Unstoppable Us) is a historian, philosopher and best-selling author. Yuval joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how people create fantasies in their minds about the real world, why he wanted to write a children's book, and how humans are capable of building large collaborative communities. Yuval and Dax talk about how the invention of fire advanced human civilizations, how humans evolved to the top of the food chain, and why people lose their faith in the systems that run their lives. Yuval explains why he doesn't like to hear his own voice, what the concept of social scores based on technology tracking is, and how the stories of religion can change over time. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert, expert, I'm ex-Sheppard, I'm joined by Monica Mouse.
0:05.2	Hi!
0:06.2	Are you?
0:07.4	Our favorites here for a third time.
0:10.2	Three Pete.
0:11.2	Gosh, it's so wonderful to get to talk to this gentleman almost annually now.
0:16.3	Yeah.
0:17.3	Yvonne Noah Harare.
0:19.5	Yvonne O'Harrari is a historian, a philosopher, and best-selling author. His book, Sapiens, is just the most
0:26.0	ginormous book worldwide you can imagine on a topic that no one could have guessed would have been
0:30.7	interesting to the world at large.
0:32.9	He made it interesting.
0:34.1	He sure did.
0:35.1	So Sapiens is fantastic.
0:36.1	Homodaeus is my preferred of the two books.
0:39.2	21 lessons for the 21st century.
0:41.1	And he has a new book that's based on Sapiens and it's for kids.
0:45.9	It's called Unstoppable Us, Volume 1, how humans took over the world.
0:50.6	It is fantastic.
0:52.6	Cannot wait to read this book to my girls.
0:55.0	Yeah.
0:56.0	It's just like selling out.
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