Real Time with Bill Maher - Overtime - Episode #347 (Originally aired 3/20/15)

Episode Date: March 24, 2015

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Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late-night series, Real Time with Bill Maher. Okay, we are back on the Internet. What does the panel think of Obama's musings this week about mandatory voting? You'll have a lot of uninformed people voting. We do now. Yeah. You'll multiply that number. Yeah.

Well, I don't know about that because I don't think unless they, you know, you... Are they going to come to arrest you if you don't... Fine. It'd be a fine. In Australia, they do this mandatory vote. That's what they do. What do you want to have 35 or 40% of the electorate voting that really did know something as opposed to 100% just going in and stamping whatever?

I mean, I think we have to do something. I don't think it's kind of un-American, actually, mandatory voting, but we have to do something. We have to make voter registration easier. We probably should think about moving elections to the weekends when people aren't going at work and run. Absolutely. Absolutely.

Because this is pathetic. Of course, the problem with that is that one party, I'm not going to say which one does not want more people. Which one? The next young. I think one party, they shall be nameless. Oh, are you really telling me that you're a Republican party? We want the same thing the Democrats want, which is more of our people to vote and less of yours. That's what both parties want. But I think part of being American is exercising freedom not to vote.

And the libertarian in me says, you know what? If I don't want to vote, that's voting in itself. It's saying a statement. And I shouldn't be forced to vote. You wouldn't want to be mandatory, but I'm doing it's all the time. my head, but didn't something like 80% of the eligible voters vote in the presidential election of 1960, Kennedy Nixon, something like 80%? No. I think so. Absolutely not. Not 80. Maybe 60. I think it was more than that. Let's have a bet. Let's have a bet. Now, if only there was a way we can

look up. Considerably more than over the past generation. If only we were living in the future, Bob, and there's a way to look stuff like that up quickly on your phone. The watch. And when you are including 80% are you including the Chicago votes? So let's put that up and tell us to the next minute or so because I think 80 is way off and I, what do you want to bet, Bob,

who's going to pay for dinner tonight? Yeah. Great. Free dinner for me. Okay. I say it's closer to 60. You say it's closer to 80, right? That's the bet.

70's the breaking point. The house collects on 70. If it's 70, We will split the check. Bob, do you think the NCAA should pay its student athletes? I think they should be paid a stipend so that, like the average college student, because many of these kids come from disadvantaged backgrounds, they're able to get through college with more than just tuition room board books.

But if you pay them a salary, you're basically waving the white flag and saying, this is a complete sham. That's all it is. which they've allowed it to become. But it is a complete shame. Yes. But if... We're just saying it.

And here's something interesting. We were talking about this earlier. Things you'd like to hear said on the air. I like March Madness as well as anybody. Buzzard beaters and everything else. And it's all terrific. But you'll hear every conceivable stat. You don't want to embarrass any individual kid.

But you will never find, even during a timeout, any talk of the disconnect between academics and athletics. And what a complete sham this is for so many of these schools and so many of these kids. Now, if university president said, when it comes to the revenue producing sports, because lacrosse players, swimmers, tennis players, they actually graduated higher rates than the average student body. But if they said we are going to take control of admissions for football, basketball, and maybe in a few cases, women's basketball, nobody gets into this school that couldn't get into this school,

plausibly if it didn't have a basketball or football team. Now go coach these guys. They end of problem, but they won't do it. It's like unilaterally disarming. Bob, we have an answer on the 1960 vote. That's why you were smirking. 63.1. 63.1.

All right. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait a lie. Wait a lie. Order the lobster out of peace. And the don't parignon. Jack is Speaker Bainer working too much with Democrats and sacrificing a conservative agenda.

Oh, I think so. You know, it's interesting that the President of the United States seems to be more comfortable with Iranians than he is with Republicans. It's not necessary. They can sit down and work together. And I feel like both sides should be talking a lot more to each other. That's something a Cuban would say. I agree with Chuck. I agree with Chuck. I agree with him. You know, you know, that's a rare moment when we can make the New York. Walker feel uncomfortable.

Oh, that's certainly not the way. No. Calm, cool, white people talk. Yeah, exactly right. So what do you miss the most about Congress, and what do you miss the least? Well, I miss the camaraderie. I miss the debate. Every time I see a show like yours, I miss the decorations.

The decor. Did you ever see his office? I stole a Lincoln bus from it one time on a. HBO show. What? What? It was a fraternity prank? It was Stephen Colbert.

We went in there and stole his Lincoln bus. That's a comedy sense. There's peasant feathers as well in the office, apparently. Yes, feathers. Yeah. For real. Yeah. And as a congressman can say, like, you normally paint the office either like a light blue, a beige, a white.

I mean, and you get, like, used furniture. What is it with Illinois? Yeah, I know. There's a lot of weird. weird political shit in Illinois. I mean, Bergenovich, what was his name, Blaganovic?

Blago and that's... And Jesse Jackson, Jr., remember, he, like... He sacrificed his career so we could buy Michael Jackson's old shit, you know... Did he put... He was like the black...

He was like the black... Harry Schauchy, like Michael Jackson's cave. It is bipartisan corruption there. It really is. In jail and both parties. We've come together. Around corruption in Illinois.

We feel good. I still want to get in on the free meal, though, Bob. Let's get another bet going. Here, take counterasily. Ooh, look at that. I can take that now. I'm out of office. That's funny.

You said, now. Mercedes, is Scott Walker just the flavor of the week, or is he a serious national candidate? He could be the flavor of the month, but I mean, I do think he's one of the serious contenders. Obviously, he's up there with former Florida governor, Jeb Bush. But I think, again, this is a very, yeah, in several states. He's ahead of him. And I'll tell you why.

Because he's the one guy on your side who is liked by both the establishment republicans. Well, and Marco Rubio is too, though. He's liked by the establishment and by the two parties. It's the Cuban. It's Cuban, right. No, but so I think, watch out for Marco Rubio because I think it starts seeing. I am always watching out for Markner. He's a Cuban.

You got to watch it. So, again, what I think Walker brings is that fresh face, which is what we're not seeing with Hillary Clinton. So I think, you know, he's the fresh face. Oh, yes, sir. It is the truth. You look at the polls and people want something. Okay, don't say fresh like fresh. I know where you're going.

We've already established you're racist. Oh, Cubans were not racist. Are you now being sexist? Are you saying fresh-faced like she's an old? It's a fresh face? I am not. Okay. Because, you know, here...

Putting words in my mouth. We are very... I'm a woman. Why would I be sexist? I mean, that's crazy. Oh, you can. Oh, women can be sexist. That's true.

That's true. And gays can be homophobic, trust me. I speak of both of my people. I do when I make those same. Right. Being a woman and a gay, I know of what I speak. What do you think about the Dalche and Gabana scandal? Now, I mean, there are two old Italian guys

who are gay. Yes, right. But they're saying like, we are old Italian guys, hey, you know, what do we like the old-fashioned way? You put your thing in the vagina,

you know, that disgusting vagina. You put the thing in there. I mean, they called Elton John's babies synthetic, well, not his specific, but synthetic children,

right? I think they were at that slide, which was the problem that got the movie. But, I mean, don't they have the right? I don't agree with them. Don't they have the right?

They have the right. Look, this is what I think of the situation. One, it proves that there are stupid and insensitive gay people, just like there are stupid and insensitive straight people. So my sexual orientation is not any smarter or more sensitive than anybody else. So if they have an old worldview, they're stupid. I think they're what they said, particularly because it was about children, was stupid and mean and insensitive.

Because I think that's just unkind. And I agree with you. Right, and I agree. And I agree. Five million. Five million people have been born IV. Five million. The first one was 1978.

And she had children the natural way. But I think it was an incredible. Well, babies are babies. I'm always for less babies being born because we do not have enough. That's horrible. That's horrible. I'm the mother of five kids. Well, you shouldn't be.

You shouldn't be. Well, that's super selfish in a world. Super selfish? Absolutely. No way. They will be contributors to our society. God only knows one of my kids will be takers of water. No, they will not.

They will not. They need to take water. They need to take water. They do need to take water. Come on. In the rate, the birth rate in the United States is it continues to decrease. At least the schlaps are providing some extra kids here and there. Well, we don't need extra kids.

And they're half Cuban, so there you go. And Irish and German. But the world does not have enough resources. Oh, come on. What do you mean? Come on. What is your problem with facts? Because I have fun.

You know what? It's the problem with facts. These are facts. That is a fact. I have a fact. I have a fact. I have a fact. This is going to be fingernails on the blackboard.

For those of, there might be a few Democrats in the audience. Just a few. But genetically modified, less water, less fertilizer, less land. You can feed a world of nine million people, which we're closing in on. But we get great resistance. just to have an intelligent conversation about it. And I think that's part of the solution to the world population. And Monsanto children are not synthetic.

Right, right. All right. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you, Kyle. Catch all new episodes of Real Time with Bill Maher every Friday night at 10. Or watch them anytime on HBO on demand. For more information, log on to HBO.com.