The Joe Rogan Experience - #1241 - Sam Harris

Sam Harris is a neuroscientist and author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, and The Moral Landscape. He is the host of the podcast “Making Sense" available on Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration: 2h 49m
Broadcast on: 06 Feb 2019
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5, 4, 3, 2, hello Sam Harris. Hey man. Good to see you. I'm happy to be here. I listened to your podcast with Jack. Let's just get right into the Jack stuff because I listened to your podcast with Jack and I found something very, when I did my podcast with Jack, first of all, was not anticipating the blowback that I received. It was stunning but what I thought was I was just going to have a conversation with this guy, be fun, see what it's like to run this gigantic network that helps people communicate. You okay, Jamie? All right. Helps people communicate and distribute information worldwide. What is it like to start something like that up and have it become what it is, like how have you managed to try to keep up with it and what have the headaches been and apparently people online, particularly the people that want to comment about this, all they wanted to know about with censorship and that was an issue with me. There was a question with me but it became a far bigger question for people online. They felt like that I tossed him softball questions and that I didn't press him. Then I listened to your podcast and one thing about Jack is very smart guy, very nice guy buddy talks in a very slow and methodical way and when you ask him a question, he takes these routes and if you don't want to jump in and press him, like you're in this weird situation where he's not totally answering your question but he's talking about the same subject that you're talking like, for instance, you brought up Louis Farrakhan, like how was Louis Farrakhan a good standing on the platform and someone like, you know, Phil in the blank, Milo Yiannopoulos or Laura Loomer or whoever it was, they get kicked off. He never got to that. He went around and around and around with you and he recognized this after the podcast. I received a lot of blowback. He received a lot of blowback so I contacted him and he said he'd be more than happy to come back on again and address all these things and I said, okay, what I'd like to do is address specific instances of people being censored and he said, okay, what I'll do is I'll bring in someone from the company that's in charge of that stuff, so I'm starting to put together a picture of what it's like to be a CEO of something as big and he's also a CEO of Square. He runs the cash app. There's a lot of stuff going on there, right? So he's obviously busy. How much day-to-day involvement does he actually have and who gets censored and why they get censored and how much is he willing to share about that? So we're going to find out in the next follow up podcast but I got accused of everything from being a shill to being a cuck to being, and there's also an issue that you've managed to avoid, wisely so, of advertising. The cash apps and advertising are on my podcast, so because the cash apps and advertising are on my podcast. Right. The man had you by the throat. Exactly. He didn't ask all those great questions that were queued up. The reality is those are the questions I would have asked. Now that's hard to say because no one's going to believe it but those are the questions

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