Barry Weiss
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976 appearances
13 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
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And I say this as someone... And you said how they lost their instinct for danger.
That's such a perfect way to end, but I can't let you leave the stage without a quick lightning round, and I'm going to fold in some of your questions. What do you think of the hostage deal in two sentences?
I love this question from Barrett. What role might religion play in a world with superintelligence?
Have you gotten more religious over the past year and a half?
What was the first book that made you enthralled with history? I think your parents gave you Toynbee at like seven or something insane like that.
Your mother was an actress and also a writer. What did she teach you about storytelling?
Having studied so many evil people, what's your view of human nature, good or bad?
You wrote a book about speeches that changed the world that I think is incredible. You included Churchill, Lincoln, MLK, Bob Dylan, Cleopatra. What was the most impactful speech for you? The one people should Google when they get home.
If you had to go back and live in a different period of time, which one would it be?
I think Amazon or Hulu, one of them is making a TV version of Young Stalin. Who's going to play Young Stalin, and could it be Timothee Chalamet?
So if any of you are interested in playing Stalin, please talk to Seebeg after the show. Last question, what's your next book going to be about?
Favorite story in the Bible?
Simon Sebag Montefiore, thank you so much for spending tonight with us. Thanks for listening. If you learned from this conversation, if it challenged you or made you think differently, please share it with your friends and family and use it to have an honest conversation of your own. And if you want to support Honestly, and we really hope you do, there's just one way to do it.
It's by going to the Free Press' website at vfp.com and becoming a subscriber today. We'll see you next time. Hi, Honestly listeners. Barry here with a really exciting announcement. The world today, as you know, is confusing, chaotic, unpredictable, bizarre, times scary, at other times just absurd.
But chances are, whatever crisis is currently blowing up your phone, it's probably happened before, or at least a version of it. And there's so much we can learn from looking to the past. Thank you so much for having me. Before there was Russiagate, there was the Red Scare. Before there was Donald Trump, there was Huey Long and Andrew Jackson.
As George Santayana warned, those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it. So tune in every other Wednesday as we remember, rediscover, or learn it for the very first time. Do me a favor, pause me right now, stop listening to me, and go subscribe to Breaking History on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'll be waiting. Go ahead.
I am seriously so excited about this show. Eli's brilliant. I learn every single time I listen to him and I read him. And I know if you love this show, you're going to love his. Thank you. Breaking History every other Wednesday from the Free Press.
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Available in select locations. See the Uber app for details. From the Free Press, this is Honestly, and I'm Barry Weiss. Fourteen years ago, Amy Chua published a book called Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. It was received less like a book and more like a nuclear bomb.
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