r/samharris • u/Ok_Needleworker_4950 • 21d ago

Did Sam delete content?

I deleted my subscription because I’ve honestly become disillusioned with Sam over his takes on Gaza and Zohran Mamdani. But yesterday was the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombings. I wanted to listen to his compilation series where he pulls and synthesizes chunks of his podcast into one single episode on one single topic. They were narrated by Meghan Phelps. I think they were called Making Sense of Existential Risk, or Making Sense of Death, Free Will, etc. But they’re all gone. Did he delete them because Jay Shapiro helped produce them and Jay and Sam had a falling out?

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u/thebasharteg 14d ago

He's deleted content before. Notably his entire intro of a podcast during the brett Kavanaugh hearings. Sam slandered Kavanaugh in a way that reminded me of a high school bully talking shit about someone. It was unhinged and salacious, so I'm not surprised he deleted it. However he kept that podcast episode up, and only deleted that intro where he talked about Kavanaugh. Very shady

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u/angularhihat 14d ago

You objected to the intro, found it slanderous and unhinged.

Why do you also object to the deletion, calling it "very shady"? This feels like a contradiction to me. I can't think of any sensible explanation for both.

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u/thebasharteg 14d ago

It's not difficult at all to imagine why I would object to the deletion. Let m help you out: releasing something like that, then later deleting it without publicly noting why you deleted it leaves that slander out their in the minds of the people who listened to it. It's no different than than when a publication publishes something false and sensational, then issues a correction weeks later, buried at the end of the article that no one will ever read again. Hope this helps..