About this episode

Sam and Jaron discuss various current events, including gratitude, anxiety, conspiracy theories, and more.

In this latest episode of the More From Sam series, Sam and Jaron talk about current events. They discuss how to cultivate gratitude and navigate anxiety in uncertain times, the role of mindfulness in coping with AI-driven job displacement, the slowing of religious decline in America, a FEMA official's claim that he teleported to a Waffle House, the irresponsibility of conspiracy-fueled podcasting, Sam on which conversations are worth having, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe .

People in this episode

Host: Sam Harris

Guest: Jaron

Topics covered

• gratitude
• anxiety
• mindfulness
• conspiracy theories
• job displacement
• religion
• current events

Keywords

• gratitude
• anxiety
• mindfulness
• conspiracy
• Waffle House
• job displacement
• religion

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FEMA

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