Real Time with Bill Maher - Overtime - Episode #377 (Originally aired 2/12/16)

Episode Date: February 13, 2016

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Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late-night series, Real Time with Bill Maugh. All right. Uh, by the way, that was the stuff you gave me last time. That was the stuff? Yes. It was good shit for real.

Mike was on the show before, and he, as all guests should, gave me a big jar of pot. This is definitely going to make my mom very happy. Mom, it was good stuff. My mom was the first marijuana smoker I knew, and she had to talk with me. when I was about third grade, her talk was, Spray my perfume on you, don't tell your teacher's

mommy smokes marijuana. The talk with my third grade has been a little different. Yes, Daddy smokes marijuana. No, it's not appropriate for children. But my mom asks me to smoke a joint with you, so you just fulfill my mom's dream. Hey, Denise. And as we've always all said, it is not appropriate for children. I don't think they should even sell edibles in any form that... Well, they help sick people. I will. You didn't know me finished.

Okay. sell edibles, but not in a form that looks like a fucking gummy bag. Gotcha, gotcha, got it's just too much opportunity for... I've had people, you know, like, is that? Oh, don't eat that. That's a... Whoa. And like, way, I would have been stoned? Like, I am... Edibles should look like little bugs or something.

They should make it like nasty Halloween candy, like candy corn or peanuts. Can I ask you guys a question? Yeah. I was away for a minute. Like, what the hell happened? I was out here and we were like talking about the Middle East. Now you're talking about, like, yo, man, they should make edible marijuana.

Like insects, man. You're like the home you went to the store. I went to the store. I came back, I was like, did I miss something? Well, listen, I didn't smoke anything, but I just want to know if sitting here, at least I'm entitled to the Cheetos. You're going to want them after all that second hand.

I want them now. ISIS came in and got me stoned, Richard. They do that, you know. Richard Engel, what explains ICE's ability to recruit young people from all over the world. A lot of it's technology, right? Social media and. Well, they have space.

I think of ISIS like a virus, right? And a virus exists because the host is sick. And the host right now, primarily Iraq and Syria, is like on its deathbed. So you get the place stronger, you get more stability there, ISIS goes away. But without social media, Twitter, and the things that...

That attracts it. That attracts it. But Al-Qaeda didn't have that. It doesn't matter. Right now, you can put out as many, you could put out an ISIS video on your show. I don't suggest you do that. But you're not going to suddenly have many, many, many more people in this country joining up and signing up for ISIS.

There's a limited population. It's because you have a failed state. It's because you have guns. It's because you have a civil war. And a caliphate. Isn't that a lot of it that they want to actually go? There's an actual country as opposed to what Al-Qaeda has? This isn't a caliphate.

This is nonsense. Everything I know is long. This is not the caliphate, you know. Really? That's not the difference between al-Qaeda and ISIS is that they have an actual place that they can say country. They have a place, I'm saying. They have a territory, and that's all they have their playground

to, you know, practice their sadism. Are we making any progress rolling that back? I mean, they did retake... Not really. Not really. I mean, a little bit, but no. In general, no. Look, young people are getting attracted by the promise of all those versions.

virgins. Little do they're too young and inexperienced to know virgins are not what they're cracked up to be. Oh. And then you get somebody. You don't need to work, Blue. You're funny as you are. You don't know. Josh Green, did the media underestimate the appeal of outsiders like Trump and Bernie? Duh, yeah. Yeah. Duh is the only thing you can say that.

Killer mind. He gave you kind of a bad question. And sometimes you get the end, you're like, do you people watch the show? the show because we... But it wasn't only the media. Hillary Clinton underestimated Bernie Sanders. Predictions, they want to know, for South Carolina and Nevada.

Now, when is Nevada? Is it a little different because the parties are not the same in those states? Exactly. South Carolina comes first for Republicans, for Republicans, it's February 20th. That's too confusing. So Nevada, I think Bernie could win.

Caucus State does well in caucus states, but... Right. Her campaign manager used to run Nevada. Right. Harry Reid. No, I mean, there's a lot of democratic old line establishment. There's that, too. And unlike eight years ago, she's been organizing and knows what to do.

And I think people underestimate Bernie Sanders. You know, they think that because there's all these African Americans in South Carolina or African Americans and Hispanics in Nevada, he can't win. Look, you know, African Americans, Hispanics, minority groups, we don't all think alike. It's not group think. We're not a one big, homogeneous, monolithic voting machine. There are African-American progressives. There are Hispanic progressives, and I think he's going to appeal to some of them.

I think he does, and people are mistaken to think. I think a lot of African-Americans have just been taught to toll the Democratic line. And I think a lot of younger ones in particular are breaking in. You know, like I say, I have African-American friends that are conservatives, that are staunch Republicans, that are independents, that are libertarians. And a lot of them have jumped on the Bernie bandwagon just because they're like, We're not going to tour a Democratic line, and we're tired of the record system. And one of those people in particular is Shelley Winters.

Now in Atlanta, very conservative guy had a great talk show for years. Shelly Winters? His name was Shelly Winters. The Oscar winner? No, no, no. No, no. He's not decided to pass the black guy from New Rochelle. All the people. But remember, everybody thought the women were going to vote for Hillary Clinton.

And what did we just see in New Hampshire? We saw all the young women vote for the old guy. Absolutely. You mentioned earlier that a lot of the statistics that are being thrown around, The unemployment rates are total nonsense. A lot of the stuff that's being thrown around foreign policy-wise is total nonsense. Like ISIS, we're going to make the sand glow, one person, honestly said. Well, where ISIS operates, there's no sand.

It's Olive Groves, the area in northern Syria, it looks like Southern California. Not a lot of sand. You better, you better pray that. So you can make it glow. But it's not going to have a lot of impact on ISIS. Yeah. I mean, the two things I said to you, that it was the caliphate and that social media was important. You see that in the media all the time. I mean, we need to...

Social media, you know, it's the fact that there is a plate. No, I'm just saying that... There is a failed state. There is this carnival where you can show up and do horrible atrocities to people. That's the lure. The fact that, you know, the advertising is good is less important that the physical space that exists. Margaret, are you concerned about performing your stand-up in a conservative country like... Singapore. Oh, yeah, because I could totally get caned.

Remember that? The guy who got... Yeah, I'm in a spirit. Get can't get can't chew so much gum. Yeah, I mean, I could get can get caned for what we just did here tonight. We were very rude and... If he could have, wouldn't Giuliani have caning when he was mayor of mayor? He's such a nice guy. Rudy Giuliani? Yes.

Bullshit. He may be a nice guy. He has some hard-ass opinions. I mean, really, to get that upset about Beyonce? He gets crabby. Look, I think, you know, look, I think, when it comes... When he sees it as an assault on police officers, I think he gets very upset, very emotional, very invested.

Do you think it's possible, I'm just asking, hypothetically, to be racist and not know your racist? Hypothetically. Yes, I do. Okay. But I don't think. that's the case of Rudy Giuliani. Could we also agree that politicians don't give a shit about cops?

That's a lie. My dad was a cop. Cops are underpaid. Cops are underprotected. When you see a cop, one cop in a patrol car, that means that politicians don't care enough to put two cops in a patrol car. Two police officers in a patrol car

give cops an opportunity to get out of that car and interact with community. And politicians that care about police officers make sure that they're liaisons between the public and police. I'm tired of the narrative that somehow because I'm a conservative or because I'm a Republican, I care more for police officers. People who care for police officers hire from within the community. They care about police officers' protection than their families.

And, you know, that's just, I think that progressives need to be more assertive. I'm a gangst, I'm a pan-Africanist gangster rapper, and a policeman died in Southwest Atlanta, and I put his picture up. No politician did that in Atlanta. No politicians from his district did that. So it's just totally fuckery to say that because they're working class men that are doing the bidding of a higher

class of people that don't give a shit about the people that they're policing. I just like to say that on the behalf of families of police officers. You know, politicians, if you love cops, you can do a fucking better job. That's it. Nice bummer speech. You killed my buzz. I'm sorry, huh?

I'm fucking with you. I'm sorry. All right. Final question. Will there be any blowback to Donald Trump's criticism of Pope Francis, I did not hear. What did he say? Oh, my God. I haven't heard either. Oh. No, well, he's said in the past that the issue about migration,

there should be more of a focus on migration. I thought he said, the Pope is voting or something. No, I don't think. Their supporters are like, yeah, that Donald, he tells it like it is. No, no, the idea is that Donald Trump has been about the wall in Mexico, and the Pope is going there, and is going to meet with the downtrodden, and are they on conflicting paths? Well, listen, he's gone after prisoners of war.

He's gone after Megan Kelly. You know, these folks are like quas' ideities with a conservative base, and his numbers have gone up. He's on Twitter, and the Pope's on Twitter. They could have a Twitter war. I smell a comedy bit on this show next. I'll stick with a higher power. The Pope is a lousy foot washer.

All right, time to go. Thank you very much, everybody. We're a great crowd. It's hope they're not arrested. 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.