Real Time with Bill Maher - Overtime - Episode #376 (Originally aired 2/5/16)

Episode Date: February 6, 2016

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Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late-night series Real Time with Bill Maugh. Okay, here we are. I'm sorry, I was just a little bit of her clumped at seeing two icons together. I am so knocked out to be able to meet her.

Really? She was such a hero to me. Oh, I'm so glad. You've been awesome. For all of us for a... Thank you. Okay. Start making out, you too.

Oh, my God. Why, you want to watch? I said to myself, It's a beautiful moment. Let's ruin it. Uh, PJ O'Rourke, why are there so few

mainstream conservative comedians? Oh, it's so true. You're the only one who can make that shit funny. It seemed funny to us. Well. There are a lot of mainstream, uh, conservative comedians, it's just not on purpose.

Right. Ted Cruz, cross me up. You just don't have the material to work with. I'm sorry, there is no Sarah Palin for you guys on the left. No. You know, I mean, you can try to make an equivalency with Nancy Pelosi.

It just doesn't work. You may not like Nancy Pelosi, but she's bright. It's more that we lack to. Tina Faye and then we lack the... Yeah, well... But no, I say that... I think we have proven over and over again

to be hilarious. I just watch Ted Cruz in action. I don't really see how he could be much funnier than that. Okay. Glory, is the Equal Rights Amendment still worth fighting for? Oh, I forgot all about that. Now, what year were they trying to pass that? It's coming back.

It is? 78. Yeah. It's coming back. There's a big populist movement for it because I think that we've realized looking at, say, the Walmart suit, which was a huge, the biggest sex discrimination suit ever, that we lost it because we couldn't

prove state of mind, you know, hello, you know, not because there wasn't discrimination. If we had the Equal Rights Amendment, we would have wanted it. You know, it would be nice to have women in the Constitution sort of thing. Right. Amen. Armstrong Williams, where does the Ben Carson campaign go from here? I saw a headline today. It said it was circling the drain.

I'm just saying that. I just saw that. Don't believe everything you read. No, but he did fire people today. He needed to. Okay. And cut salary. Sometimes we need to fire and cut salary.

Yes, of course. You understand that. Well, that's part of corporate discipline. Corporate, you've got to construct. Especially when you leave Iowa, you don't need those people anymore. You just got to cut them. That's what happened. And what about the fact that he went home to get new clothes?

Clean clothes. Bill, Bill, again, let's be fair. And I think the ladies can relate to this. Don't take it personally, by the way. When you've been on the road... Well, men don't eat clean clothes? Yes, of course, that's the point. When you've been on the road for 18 days,

sometimes you need to change things. But... Ladies, can you relate to that? What does that need? 18 days? But he has no one in the campaign who can go get them for him? No. He fired them all.

No. He had to go home himself. It is... It was on his schedule for a month. Come on, really? Yes. It was like laundry day. Like...

The man... Man wanted to go home. Okay, but why don't you just say he wanted to sleep in his own bed? I totally understand that. It's one and the same. But this sounds like, you know, is America ready for a president? You know what, the problem is? He's not a politician.

He just says exactly what it is. I'm going home. I need to change of clothes. Somebody else, Ted Cruz would have said it differently. Dr. Carson is just authentic. That's who he is. Went home to change clothes. He doesn't have a...

No more, no less. It's not a flunky who could go get his clothes. No. No? No. He's got to pick him out himself. He wanted to go home. He wanted to go home. He wanted to go home. Leave the clothes out of it. He wanted to go home. Right. Could we make this exchange about men's obsession with clothes and fashion and cleanliness and so on? It's not about fashion with him. You want to go home.

No. Okay. Yeah. I want to go home. All right. I thought it might be funny, but it wasn't. Is criticism? We've all been there. Don't worry. Is criticism of Hillary's vote for the Iraq war still fair game? Well, of course. She's in a campaign.

What sort of question is that? It's a huge vote. But wait a minute. Obama was big enough to say that if he had been in the Senate at the time and got the same false information about weapons of mass destruction, he didn't know how he would have voted. Really? I mean, I thought it was a very gentlemanly and great Obama to say that.

I remember him making a very forceful speech. No, those were... That looks so prescient today about how... dumb it would be to get involved in Iraq. He wasn't in the Senate at the time. It was before he was in Chicago in a street rally saying that. I mean, when you read it to that. He said that if he had known the same thing that Hillary knew he might have voted differently, I thought that was great of him to say that. Oh, okay. So you, so somebody else asks, is the country ready for a female president? That seems kind of on the nose. Yes. And also, I know that Hillary's campaign be

this to beating a dead horse, but let's just think about who we are as a country if America follows up the election of its first black president with the election of its first female president. I mean, that moment for us as Americans, I mean, we will forget about Donald Trump having ever run. And it would be a remarkable thing. But is it a reason to vote for someone just to do that? I'm not saying it is, but I do think we should not. I'm not thinking...

This cycle, this election cycle. Nor, she should vote for them because they're black. We're not voting for Sarah Palin. Excuse me. We're voting for a woman who represents the majority of women. And men, of course, we're not. But, you know, what percentage of black voters did Obama get over 90? Democrats always get that.

That's because he's a Democrat. Well, it has the much to do with it. They don't get over 90. But I don't think Hillary is getting over 90% of women. It just doesn't work the same way. My daughters just don't care about it. You want to know why? They're sort of interested in Bernie Sanders.

they were sort of interested in Rand Paul. But as to whether a candidate was which gender or of what sexual persuasion, it just doesn't seem to register. It's significant. But there is a deep reason, I think, with women often, which is that most of us are raised by women, whether we are women or men. I mean, there are many more great- We were raised by women.

Wait, wait, that's my point. There are a lot of, there are a lot of... No, no, no, that's my point. Okay, okay. we are raised by women, even though they're a lot more great fathers now than there used to be, but because we're mostly raised by women, we associate female authority with childhood, emotionality, irrationality, you know, so on. That's 50 years ago.

We see, no, no, it's still, look at all those studies. We see men's authority later, and it seems more rational and appropriate to the outside world. So I really don't think we will be able, wait a minute, we will be able to. This is something new for me. Yeah, good. No, because we will really only be able to recognize human talent in all of its forms when men are raising children as much as women are, and women are in the public world as much as men are. And then we will be able to take.

What do you think in the fact that recent studies have shown that when men, when husbands participate a lot in the child wearing, like, you know, very young, especially changing diapers, their testosterone levels drop. Yes, low tea. Under alcohol intake increases, I'm here to tell you. There is the fight or flight testosterone, but women also have testosterone, incidentally. There's also the oxytocin, which is the tendon-be-friend hormone, and that goes up in both men and women

when we hold children, when we're with each other and empathize with each other. This is not a bad thing. I mean, testosterone poisoning is not what we want. because that is... Wait, wait, wait. Let me speak up for testosterone. Any testosterone is too much testosterone.

Especially on Sunday, we do want some testosterone. But in excess of testosterone... Of course, testosterone does a lot in the male body to regulate everything else. You need testosterone. Yes, and women need testosterone too. Let's not... Okay. But they don't need it like me.

But we need it in balance. We don't need, you know, crazed warriors going off on test... No, but there's a happy medium. And when a man changes a diaper, it could threaten his health. That's all I'm saying. saying, uh... True. So true. It's just true.

It's not bullshit. It's not bullshit. No, it's child shit. Keep talking about it. It's just the truth. Just need to drink. And by the way, 80 countries in the world have elected a woman leader.

So... Not us! Isn't it amazing? Yeah. I mean, America should, whether this is the year or not, America should feel embarrassed about that. Yes. 80 countries.

I mean, we're often laid on a lot of stuff. We were the last country to get rid of slavery. One of the last major countries. And we went to war over that one, yeah. Do we have to have gold of mayor? Gold of me. She always scared me. I would love to have golden mayor.

Well, she certainly looks good this year, doesn't she? No, she never looked good. Well, besides leave it. Oh, man. Right. The show is called real time. Alex, do you think that the DNC's decision to add more debates to the primary schedule

will have a positive impact for either candidate? 100%. I mean, last night was a great example of that. I just think you have two substantive people talking about substantive issues. That's good for the country. That's good for the party. That's good for people.

Being turned on to the democratic process. I'm sorry, but apologize to my Republican friends. but it does look like just a whole different species. Yeah. I mean, they had this substantive discussion among two adults who never went out of the bounds of decorum talking about what progressivism is. They're just on a different level of the evolutionary scale

than the feces throwers, actually, Republicans. I mean, you can't, you can't, the circus is on the Republican. Yeah, it's so much more fun. It is more fun. It is much more fun. Why do you think the ratings are so much? Right. It's entertaining.

Can I, as a New Yorker, you're no longer a New Yorker, right? Can I say a word about Trump as a New Yorker? Please. He is not a successful business. Oh, I thought you said. That's true. That is quite good. There was a guy at the Times who did a story about what his real net worth is.

How can you say he's not a successful business thing? Because he is not a successful business. Really? Yeah. No, he is a successful conman. He is a con man. Yeah. That's a business business.

That's a thrott and business in America. That is wrong. You are wrong. If he had taken the $200 million he inherited from his father, he was born on third base. That's true. Absolutely. You know, if he had taken the same amount of money and invested it, he would have made more money than he has now. He went bankrupt through.

He is a, yes, it's true. First of, we don't know that because we'll never know how much money he has because he's a giant, bombastic liar. But I'm just saying that every many, with his cinnamon on him, Many economists have looked at this and said that he is not a successful businessman. He sued New York Times reporter. He sued me. Well. He's probably going to sue you.

Anyway, he lost. He lost with you, do I? There are many things you can question John. He is not a successful business. No, he is not a successful business. He just leases his name and puts it on buildings. I actually thought you were getting ready to endorse him when you said, can I say something about Trump? Oh, please.

I'm very, you know, one of those. I'm ashamed. I'm very rich. I'm very rich. I'm very successful. I'm very smart. I'm smart. So I saw him yesterday, and there's something, one of the thing. I'm so ashamed to come from the same city that he is in.

He is such a lot. Well, you come from Toledo, Ohio. It's okay. You come from Toledo, Ohio. No, you come from Cleveland. Well, I do. We both do. Yeah, I know. What is it said about the people that support Trump? Well, I think they're looking for,

They're looking to give the middle finger. The primary thing they say is he's a successful businessman and therefore he can run the country, which is why I think we need to know he is only a con man, not a successful businessman. Okay, but I got one more Trump thing. I saw him, saw Donald Trump at an event in New Hampshire yesterday. Oh.

And that hair thing, you know, that looks like a wild animal. It's a synobon. In person, it's just a calm over. It's a synobon. I think it's a weave. It's sad. I mean, you made me weave. I think it's a weave.

It seems to come over really. All right. I'm glad we settled that. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, thank you. Watch all new episodes of Real Time with Bill Marr every Friday night at 10. Or watch them anytime on HBO on demand.

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