Making Sense with Sam Harris · 2026-05-26 · 22 min · 4,364 words

#477 — More From Sam: Iran's Unraveling, The Gaza Information War, AI-Generated Music, and More

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Welcome back to another episode of More from Sam. Once again, we are taping this live in front of subscribers. We've taken questions in advance and have invited everyone in the live recording to submit follow-ups in real time. Hopefully you guys are ready to be doing that today. Before we get on to our first topic, you finished up some tour dates in Toronto, DC, New York, Dallas, and Austin.

uh this past week and we're done now or are we? Yeah. I think we are. I mean I th I I'll know we recorded two days. We recorded New York and Austin and um yeah it'll just, you know, we'll see what that recording looks like and see uh what we intend to do with it.

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