Jaron Lanier

Welcome back to another episode of More From Sam.

Hey, Sam, it was nice seeing you a few minutes ago and seeing you again here.

A long time no see.

Yeah, we just did a Substack Live.

I thought that was really good.

We didn't give subscribers much heads up at all.

We will do that in the future, but we just had thought of it at the last minute.

Anyone who would like to join us for one of those in the future, you can become a subscriber and join us over there.

We will give you more time.

I thought it was really cool that we were able to take some questions.

from the audience and do that in real time.

It's a different experience being live than recording, but we'll do more of those and we'll see where we can learn and figure out how to improve those.

All right, so I woke up this morning thinking about your conversation with Sarah Longwell and Tim Miller from the bulwark, that media empire they have, and just thinking why it was so well-received by your audience.

And I don't even know what their positions are on most issues, but I'm sure they're more conservative than yours.

formerly republicans right so they they're coming from the other side they're both gay so that i mean i don't know how conservative they could be socially but my point is it doesn't even matter it seems like it didn't even matter anymore there was such a sense of relief hearing you guys speak together it's almost like we never really cared about some of those other differences and we've realized that now we just care about decency decorum sanity having somebody on the other side just see at least see everything the same way that you see things yeah yeah

And they're so trustworthy and likable.

They just feel like, you know, listening to the three of you talk, it just felt like, you know, three of my friends were getting together and I'm certain the audience felt the same way that there was this FOMO.

Like, I just, I wish I could have been there with you guys.

I saw a comment on YouTube and thought this was a nice note from them.

It says, as a progressive, I probably don't agree on many policy issues with Sarah and Tim, but I have come to trust them to tell it straight over almost anyone else, including most of the progressive podcasters I listen to.