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Episode Date: September 29, 2015

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Saving those children is how we all go home. From binge all episodes exclusively on Paramount Plus. Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late-night series, Real Time with Bill Maugh. Okay, we ran out of time, and before I get to these cards, I want to say we have two British people here today,

and I wanted to ask about the scandal with David Cameron. I knew you were going to. Really? Yes. Have you heard about it? Was it Lord Ashcroft? He's a billionaire, gave a lot of money, the Tories. I assume he's somewhat like a British Coke Brothers. Yeah, so he pays no tax in England.

just like the Koch brothers he pays no tax no tax no wow he gave a lot of money to the conservative party and then he was very pissed off when he was not really made a major figure of it and he apparently has gotten back

at them by writing this memoir where he says the current prime minister the conservative David Cameron when he was at Oxford engaged in marijuana smoking some kind of weird sex parties and I guess as a hazing ritual, put his penis in the mouth of a pig?

Live pig? No, a dead pig. Dead pigs. And a female pig. There's nothing basically wrong with Cameron. Exactly. I don't know what the problem is. Cambridge, we did it with sheep. Really?

So this is not unusual or... To British people, this wouldn't sound weird. Nothing out of time. It's very science. Explain me. What actually seems weird about it to you? Well, I mean, putting your penis in the mouth of a dead pig, I was not a part of a fraternity system. Well, I have to say that from my point of view,

the thought of putting my penis in a dead pig is impossible because I don't have one. You know what's kind of funny, though? The fact that it was a dead pig doesn't make it sound any better. No, I think it's horrible. Safer, but not better. The British are different, aren't there? They just are. Some of them.

I know, but there's been so many pedophilia scandals lately with people in show business and power, and, you know, here we just keep it to the church. Not in Holland, not in Europe, it's all over the place. Okay, let's get to the questions. Ron Reagan, what explains the Republicans' obsession with your father? Well, he's better than Nixon, I guess,

if you're going to have a ear. Who else do they have, really? But it's true. Every election cycle, you know, they trot him out again. He's like a fetish object. They've all got to stroke the Gipper. You know?

Well, yeah. Stroke the Ronnie there. And then, of course, the question arises as to whether he would be welcome in today's Republican Party. And I think if you look at the record when he was governor of California,

signed a liberal abortion law. As president, he raised taxes after cutting them when he found out the raising them, or cutting them didn't really work. Amnesty for 3 million immigrants. Offered to get our nukes down to nothing with garbage. Yeah. 200 Marines killed in Lebanon and the barracks bombing.

He did not go to war in Iraq. Cut and ran. Ran out of there. And when an ozone hole opens up over the South Pole, due to our putting chlorofluorocarbons into the atmosphere, atmosphere, that was a refrigerant, of course. Right. He did not decide that this was a liberal hoax designed to deprive us of cold beer.

Right. He actually did something about it. He encouraged everybody else to do so, too. So on that basis, I forgot. What a giant liberal Ronald Reagan was. You forget, don't you? Well, I mean, he also said Medicare was socialism that would rob us up our free. Well, he had his moments.

Yeah, he had his moments. But, I mean, the dear departed Scott Walker, who was just talking about. I mean, this guy loves Ronald Reagan to the point of, you're talking about a fetish. He and his wife purposely got married on Reagan's birthday. Isn't that bad? It is so sad. It's like single white female with a dead guy. They, like, have parties on his birthday where they eat his favorite foods.

It's just so creepy. He had his picture in his college room. I know. It must make you especially. Yeah, no, I want to bathe. Yeah, you need to get this man a shower. Okay. Then you go on about a guy just putting a penis.

Yeah, exactly. You're right. Priorities, John. If Bernie Sanders wins New Hampshire, does that unseat Hillary as the presumptive Democratic nominee? No. He's from the next state. Spike, what is the best green car out there right now? Oh, wow, that's a good question. Because diesel's now falling apart.

That's, you know, Volkswagen's going to stay in business, but diesel may not just because of what's just happened. Because these cars are all diesel that they were cheating on? These are only diesel, diesel cars, and there were 11 million of them. There were 800,000, I think, or 500,000 here in the United States. But it was only cars made from 2009 to 2015. I'm so ignorant about cars and so behind on this stuff that I would never have bought a diesel car because I associate diesel still with the... It's like the truck with the big small.

That's what I think of is diesel. But what they were selling... And apparently it was. It was, right. It was. They were selling clean diesel. It's like when they said clean coal. It never existed.

They just said the words together. Clean coal. They do exist. What does? There is clean diesel. There's a substance you put in the diesel engine called urea, which is also what's in urine. It's the same stuff.

They can synthesize it. So it's literally a piss injection engine. and this car didn't have it. And everybody wondered, well, how did they do it? How did they do it without the urea? And they did not. So, but here's what I would say. The big winners...

You're not on the show. You feel like you left here learning something. I never knew this about... This is so much better than telling me. Here's what I would say, though. The big winner in the scandal is our old friend the Prius, or even though, you know,

it's been around for a long, it's horrific car, it's been around forever. Electric cars are going to do well because of this, Tesla and everything else. And then the Germans are coming with their electric cars in 2018, so there's their comeback, maybe.

Okay. Jane, what ways can the average person get involved in animal conservation? Oh, there's so many ways. But the way I'm advocating is we have a program for young people. We can fight and strike. struggle and work to save animals, to save environments,

but if the new generations coming up aren't going to be better stewards than we are, what's the point? So we have this program, Roots and Shoots. It's now in 140 countries. What's your call? Roots and Shoots. Roots and Shoots. Roots and Shoots. Imagine a big tree. Yes. Think how it begins. A little tiny seed. Smally way. Little tiny roots and shoots appear.

But the magic in that seed is so powerful that those little roots. to reach the water can work through rocks and both in the side. That little shoot to reach the sunlight can go through cracks in a brick wall and knock it down. Hundreds and thousands of young people of all ages around the world. Choosing projects to make the world a better place, rolling up their sleeves, being empowered to take action.

That's what gives me the most hope. You can save many animals. Hundreds and hundreds of animals. Because what we need to realize is that animals that animals like us have personalities. They have feelings, happiness, sadness, fear, despair, and we should respect them. Sometimes our penis is in their mouths.

You're a bad man. Listen, I'm going to challenge you. Will you put your penis in the mouth of a dead? No, ma'am. Orangutan? Ma'am, I'm an American. Eric, fuck yeah. John, what can you tell us about your new show with Eric Idol?

Oh, that's got to be awesome. Nothing. Now, why did you choose Eric as opposed to the other remaining... I like him marginally better than the other. And he's also very good at music. So we need a little bit of song. Always look on the bright side. life. And we're going to trot it out in Florida,

because in Florida, if we bomb, nobody will know, right? So... No, they will. I mean, you guys are big. Whatever you do. Oh, no. Oh, no. No, no. If we fail in Saratoga, no, Sarasota. Yeah, I played there. And Florida's real. Believe me. It's a real place.

Nothing is private any. Did you ever read any newspapers about a bad review in the Sarasota bugle? You're showing Zach's out of bugle. No, I think you're underestimating how anticipated this show is. Sure, yeah. Well, it's not very good. Lowering expectations.

This is a good political trick. I'm just telling the truth. I'm bored with all the bullshit. It's not a very good show. It's what we call sit-down comedy. Is it new material? Well, the materials from about 19-7. 67. It's not new, but it's not well known.

Post-war. Post-war. I think you're being very modest, because you and Eric Gisle... It's charming, isn't it? From a huge star. You two are the Lennon and McCartney of comedy, and I would walk about a thousand miles to see that. All right, we've got to go. Thank you very much, everybody. 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.