Making Sense with Sam Harris
Hosted by Sam Harris · Sam Harris
4.7from 30,800 ratings
- 526
- Episodes
- 151
- Transcribed
- 30,800
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2013
- First episode
- 43M
- YouTube views
About Making Sense with Sam Harris
Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and five-time New York Times best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the mind, society, current events, moral philosophy, religion, and rationality—with an overarching focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live. Sam is also the creator of the Waking Up app. Combining Sam's decades of mindfulness practice, profound wisdom from varied philosophical and contemplative traditions, and a commitment to a secular, scientific worldview, Waking Up is a resource for anyone interested in living a more examined, fulfilling life—and a new operating system for the mind. Waking Up offers free subscriptions to anyone who can't afford one, and donates a minimum of 10% of profits to the most effective charities around the world. To learn more, please go to WakingUp.com. Sam Harris received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.
- Publisher
- Sam Harris
- Category
- science · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 12 Nov 2013
- Latest episode
- 3 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
151 of 526 episodes have a transcript.
3 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
#501 — The Performance of Empathy
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#500 — The Playing Animal
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#499 — The Birth of AGI
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#501 — The Performance of Empathy
Published 3 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And here's who I am. And let's have a relationship. If you don't know who you are, essentially, you approach another person and say, tell me who I am. And that's a disaster in terms of mutual friendship. So we gave up that. We gave up our capacity for boredom, which is so important developmentally. […]
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- Sherry Turkle
- Jimmy Carr
- Kevin Roose
- Jaron
- Alex Gibney
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 42,594,109
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 26,008 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 4,792 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 85 / 100
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- Quality
- 93
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 100
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Sam Harris host the show. Published by Sam Harris.
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