Real Time with Bill Maher - Overtime – Episode #384 (Originally aired 04/15/16)

Episode Date: April 16, 2016

Overtime – Episode #384 (Originally aired 04/15/16) - Bill and his roundtable guests Arianna Huffington, Susan Sarandon, Amy Goodman, Mary Katherine Ham and Rick Tyler answer fan questions from the latest show. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late-night series, Real Time with Bill Maher. Hey, here we are answering questions that people have sent in. Amy, has the mainstream media covered this election fairly? Absolutely not.

Let's have a season without polls, okay? Instead of the media pouring millions of dollars into these polls that turn out to be wrong, I mean, there's a poll every week or every two weeks. What is it? It's a primary or a caucus. And then, yes, find out who voted,

who didn't vote, and of course the vast majority of people don't vote. But pour that energy and those millions of dollars, pour those investigations into what these candidates really represent, what their records are. Instead of they spend all their times doing the false polls that they themselves admit, how did we get it so wrong? And then they spend that time from polls to polls saying,

how did we get it so wrong? Instead, we need to know what these people represent. I think we know. I'm sick of what they represent. I'm telling you. I could do their act for them. I completely agree with Amy. I mean, just look at the way they've covered Donald Trump.

They've given him kind of unlimited coverage. They allowed him to phone in, even on the Sunday morning shows. And, you know, you had Bob Woodward, supposedly this journalistic icon, interviewed him for 90 minutes and not ask him once about his being a birther, about his wanting to ban an entire religion, about his inciting violence, nothing. Well, and if we had no polls, what would Donald Trump talk about? I mean, look at... So he doesn't do when he pulls himself.

Look at one day, March 15th, I think they called it Super Tuesday 3. Five primaries. You had Ohio, Kaysick won his first. You had Florida, Marco Rubio pulled out. You had North Carolina, Illinois, and Missouri. Okay. Marker Lossed and pulled out.

Kasich won, Ohio. Okay. So every candidate, all the networks covered the election that night, the primaries that night, and you heard from Cruz, you heard from Kaysik, you heard from Rubio, you heard from Hillary, and then they waited and waited and waited for Trump.

They said he was going to hold the news conference. They showed the empty podium, fine, and then they play his whole thing. We all agree. We hate Trump. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, didn't finish. No one here likes Trump. He was he United, he is. Where was Bernie Sanders?

Where was Bernie Sanders that night? Did he go to sleep? I mean, Ariana might have been happy then, but what did he do? He was speaking to thousands of people in Phoenix. They never played even two minutes of a speech. They never even mentioned where's Bernie tonight? They suck. We all agree. Susan, on the 25th anniversary of Tellman Louise,

what are your thoughts looking back on the iconic film? Stands up, holds up that movie, boy. I saw it recently. Was it really 25 years? Wow. That's my thought. Same year as I need a help. Oh, wow. Oh, that's interesting.

Very. Well, I mean, I think the interesting thing about Thumb and Louise, well, that was interesting. That was significant. It wasn't his first movie, but it was the first movie where we got to see so much of Bradford. I never saw him before there. Oh, yeah, he did some TV and stuff.

Every woman in this audience knew exactly which scene you were talking about. And some of the men. I think what was interesting was that we had no idea people were going to be so offended. It was in the, you know, it was like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid except with women. And cars.

And cars or trucks. And it just made people... Oh, did the reviews? Because we were condoning suicide. It just made people so upset. And I think what it was was that women had the option of violence. And that we... I don't know what it was exactly,

but that's how we got it on the cover of Time magazine. Because there was such... You forget that there was a backlash against it, but it was huge, and we didn't see that coming. I did forget that. Yeah, yeah, no, no. It was very... No, no, no, no.

They got really got upset. And we were like, whoa, I didn't know. We back. into this territory held by white heterosexual men of a certain age. Wow. Yeah, it was a big... Since we're in a minority. That's us. I mean...

Ariana, do sleeping pills work? Actually, sleeping pills are a major disaster. 58 billion dollars are spent around the world on sleeping AIDS. Wow. Like Lunesta and that stuff. Like Ambien. And what is amazing is that people think if they can't sleep, this is their only alternative instead of all the natural alternatives.

Pot, that's natural. Or cognitive behavior. He had one too. Or. The pot keeps me up. You're not smoking the right kind. You're on Sativa. You should go to the other side.

You think I don't know. I mean, well, so why are you smoking the up? But the key thing you know is that. Don't tell Paganini how to play the violin, okay? New Zealand and our country are the only two countries are allowing sleeping pill advertising. Right. Any kind of prescription.

Yeah, you have all these beautiful pictures of happy people on sleeping pills. And then 92 warning signals of what can happen to you. Well, I mean, here's my thing about drugs. All drugs wear off over time, except for pot and liquor. Pot and liquor always work. They may have some... diminishing returns, not that I have to tell you, Rick.

But, but... Rick looks like Satan. I mean, I don't mean that in a bad way, because Satan was a very good-looking man. But I just think when I see Satan, I see... When I go, oh, that's Satan. And again, not as a bad thing.

But, you know, there aren't many drugs that actually make it possible for you to wake up in the middle of the night, have absolutely no memory, get in a car, kill people. That's ambient. Okay. Yeah, but that's not everybody. But yes, no, it is. Absolutely. But you don't know who it's going

to hit that. But here was what I was going to say about drugs. Most of them, the more you do them, the less they work. And the worst example of that is sleeping pills. Yes, it'll work the first time. And then six months later, you'll need to take twice as much. And then you're Elvis.

I mean, the amount of sleeping pills that Elvis Presley was taking at the time of his death would kill an elephant. if an elephant took it the very first time? Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson. Right.

He was the propothal. Right. He was like, hook me up. I'm taking a nap. That was heavy. Crazy. It is always a, that is truly a slippery slope. Once you start with sleeping pills,

because you will always need more. And then you'll be. Now they have this connection between sleeping pills and Alzheimer's. Sleeping pills is practically every disease if you take them over six months, which a lot of us do, not me. All right. Having just marked another equal payday this week,

are we getting any closer to closing the wage gap between men and women? No, you never will. It's always going to be a political issue because they want it to be a political issue. Who wants it? Well, you can also ask the White House to pay their people the same. It says safe. It's a campaign to pay their women the same. So there.

Next topic. It's not a real issue? Some of it is about... Oh, my mother was. tell you is a real issue and it wasn't a real issue. I remember my mother, you know, when I was growing up, she taught herself, she didn't have any skills. She didn't have her tell herself the 10 key to type and she's a single mother and she worked her way. She eventually got her MBA, a remarkable story. Wow. But it is the law. I mean,

equal play is the law. So we can make another law, I suppose, and we'll have another law on the law and then 10 years from now, or five years from now. But why do women make less than for the same job? Well, here's the 77 cents, which is what everyone used, 7 or 78 cents on the dollar. Even Obama's economic advisors, when pushed, have had to say on equal payday a couple years ago, yeah, that stat is actually not the one that really works.

And when the White House is pushed on, well, according to this stat, you guys are not paying women the same amount. And they go, well, we're close. I mean, it's not a good measure for whether this is a problem. And there are plenty of other things, there are plenty of things about the pay structure that are a problem. But women prioritize different things. it's just more complicated than the 77 cents argument.

I'm for it. Women should get equal pay. Right. But don't make it, but it's been a political issue. Is that why Ted Cruz fired you? No. You're for women. I was making it too much.

Yeah, I wanted to bring the balance it out. No, he needed a sacrificial lamb, right? That's what it was. Do I look like a lamb to you? No, you look like Satan. I look like Satan and I look like lamb. You have a lot of range. I mean that as a compliment.

Is this happening in the same? Look at this man. Is this not what Satan looked like? It is. I'm just saying that the tie. The tie's a little distracting, but the rest of it. Do you like my time? It's fine, but not for Satan.

Ari- But Satan, you needed like a black very, like this tie. Like this tie. Yes. Maybe they can switch. Yeah. Arianna, what can you tell us about your partnership with Uber to combat drowsy driving?

Well, what is so interesting is that after the designated driver campaign in the 80s, Drunk driving deaths and crashes have been huffed, but drowsy driving denser going up. And last year, we had 8,000 deaths and 1.2 million crashes. And so we've partnered with Uber to highlight the problem. We have a pledge on change.org that people can take, that they're not going to let their friends drive,

while drowsy they want themselves drive without dryzy. And I've been doing ride-alongs with Uber, drivers. Really? Yes, people can actually request me on the Uber app to give them. That is amazing. In San Francisco Travis, the founder of Uber and I, did it together. We got this woman from Houston and we explained to her about the dangers of drowsy driving,

and we gave her a bag of a lot of goodies to get better sleep. But she's not driving. No, but the point is that a lot of people who take Uber sometimes also drive, and the whole idea is to raise awareness about the fact they are on our right sharing, technologies, there are different things. But she was in the Uber so she wasn't driving. How do you explain that Susan's Grandi... The point is you get Ariana in your Uber.

How do you explain that she looks the same as she did when she made Telen Luis and she doesn't sleep? Did she make a deal with Satan? No. She gets up. Really? I mean, she does not look like she... You know what you sound like? The tobacco scientist. I'm just asking.

No, no, in the 1950s. You know, when you would say tobacco is bad for you. and there would be these tobacco signs that came out. But there is this 95-year-old woman who's been smoking all her life. Right. No, no. She's the exception. A little bit under that.

Susan is the exception to the room. She looks magnificent. Her skin is perfect and she doesn't sleep. But for the rest of humanity, it doesn't work. I'm on your page because, believe me, you know me. I care a lot about health and I read out everything I can. And if you don't sleep right, it throws off everything else. By the way, not to be gross, but if you don't sleep right, you don't poop right.

Right. And if you don't poop right, everything turns to shit. Am I right? I'm not saying you don't poop fine. Oh, I would never say that. Ariana, I have a four-month-old and a toddler. Is there hope for me? Absolutely. First of all, they will grow up. I promise. So 10 years from now. But also, you need a little tribe. You need a support system. We need to all rally around you.

What do you think about the fact that everybody on the panel, felt the need to have their phones right on... I mean, I remember when I used to do this show, and people, you know, they just wouldn't bring a phone. Why didn't you need them on television? You just... Satan is never without his phone. All right, thank you, everybody.

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