Overtime – Episode #629: David Sedaris, Scott Galloway, and Annie Lowrey
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00:19Don't miss what the movie blog calls something you need to watch.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 Maher.Okay, here we are on CNN with our panelists this week.David Sedaris is over here with this new book out,Professor of Marketing at New York's Stern School of Business, Scott Galloway,and the great writer for the Atlantic Annie Lowry,
00:51and here are the things that people want to know about.Okay, a group of conservatives has recently said they want to create an AI chatbot of their ownto combat liberal bias.Well, I've heard there was liberal bias.I've read that, that chatbot is a little woke.Can we expect AI to be used as a political weapon in the near few?I think it already is.I mean, it's funny that you create something that is supposed to be
01:16smarter than everybody and above it all,and immediately we're breaking down into, you know, that's what it's going to be.You're going to have the liberal chatbot and the conservative, right?Yeah, and there's some myths.So, like, traditional media, I think it's hard to arguethat there isn't oftentimes a liberal biasbecause it's mostly over-educated people in urban centers,but with respect to new media and technology-driven media,
01:39there's no evidence that there's any sort of bias.They don't lean left, they don't lean right, they lean green.They're all about money.They really don't care.As a matter of fact, seven of the ten each day,most viral pieces of content are usually from conservative commentators.So there's just no truth to the notionthat at least online media has a conservative bias.
01:59Hmm. I know people who...I'm sorry, a liberal bias. Excuse me.Oh, all right.David, is there any material you wouldn't perform in red states?Oh.You know, I think I've heard you say this before.You know, I'll go to Oklahoma and people say, who was there?And it's like everybody who didn't vote Republican is there.
02:20So I don't...Or some who did.I hope they all come.I welcome everybody in my...And I'm sure you do, too.I don't like it, no.No?No, I do.
02:34But I don't like, you know, like sometimes you do a show and you get a laugh from people and you think, eh, that didn't feel right to me.I don't want to pander to the audience.No.You know, I don't want to.So I'm happy to go to a red state.Right.And quite frankly, there is more to make fun of on the left in the last five years.I mean, I see it in your book, too.
02:54You know, people ask me that all the time.Why do you make fun of the left more?Because you're providing confidence.for a comedian, that's why.Yeah.It's the blue archipalago, right?All the cities are blue.If you just want to talk to Democrats,
03:08you just go to cities, right?Regardless of the state.Exactly.I mean, Alabama.I've been, I played Mobile, Alabama.Yeah, the only thing,you've got to bring your own hotel, though,when you go to a, to a,
03:21in Mobile,one of the times I was in Alabama,I swear, there was a bass fishing somethingthe same nightand I was going out to the showand there was a cryI swear to Godthere was a large crowd
03:34walking one waythat I could tellwas for the bass fishingI won't go into detailsand then my crowdwas going in the opposite directionand it could have beenany city in the country
03:46so I mean and that's Alabamaokay what do you makeofXi and Putin's meetingwell boythey exchanged friendship braceletsdidn't theygee and Putin
03:59I'llYou go first, but then and I will tell you.I think that's the biggest and scariest news of the week.While we're all scared about, I don't know,we're worried about trans swimmersor worried about our kid marrying a Republican,the real threat is an Axis power formingbetween Russia and China, and it should be scary.
04:24China, you know, China of today is different than China of 10 years ago,and they are not a competitor.They're adversaries,and maybe even enemies.The swing boat will be India,but we should absolutely be...It should have sent chills down the spineof every American
04:38and seeing those two together.Well, I mean, I was mentioning on the showthat in the 20th anniversaryof the Iraq War,I think this is a result of that.I think, you know, when...Well, in the sense that Xi and Putin see America,they saw 20 years ago we invaded a sovereign country.
05:00Yeah.I mean, we would make the casethat we had reasons that Putin...doesn't have and going into Ukraine, but that's not how they see it.So their view is, and yes, China and Russia never had any love for each other.Even during the Cold War, when they were both communists, and they should have been allied closer,it was very frosty.But their idea is we have to just be, number one is to be anti-America.
05:22America is the one is trying to bully the world.We've seen it over and over again, and we have to line up against them.That, I think, is the scary part is because they're going to get more people to join in onpremise. Yeah, and I think that there's the eternal folly that wars are won quickly, which welearned twice that that wasn't true recently. And I think that the Russian engagement in Ukraineis going to last for many, many, many, many, many years to come, weakening that stateconsiderably. And it's terrifying. I don't know. Okay. A school principal at a Florida schoolrecently resigned after parents complained that students were shown Michelangelo's David.
06:04Oh.It's a nice sculpture.Was it really appropriate or just an example of parents being too fragile about what their kids are taught in schools?Wait, was the prince allowed to resign because he showed David is a great work of our...Now, yes, the dick is out.But, well, it is.And it was no bigger than the students.I was going to say, it would probably bolster the confidence of a sixth grader.
06:29Yeah.I mean, that's a very...You know, the name of that statue should be, it was cold out.I serve on the board of my kids' school in Florida,and the notion that we were trying to pull the gay or the straight out of them is just ridiculous.Schools aren't trying to turn kids into worksters.We're trying to turn them into warriors.And these culture wars that divide us and use schools as weapons to inflame some weird imaginary problem in schools,
07:03it's just, it's another exampleof instead of working on the things that actuallyaffect us, people want to figure out what offends usso they can raise money. It's a bullshittopic.Hey, you knowYou're on CNN. Watch your mouth.Oh, sorry.
07:19Keep your swear words out of your mouth.You know, the southernstrategy as themost effective political strategythat we've seen deployed in the United Statesin the past hundred years. And I thinkwe're seeing Republicans attempt to turn anti-trans legislation,anti-LGBQ legislation into a kind of version of the Southern strategy
07:41that whips voters up.And I think that it remains to be seen how that,certainly in the midterms it didn't seem to work terribly well.But of course, what's at risk is the health and safety of childrenand the rights of Americans to live how they want and love who they want.So, yeah, it's awful.Okay.Kristen Cinema.
08:03Kristen or Kirsten?Kirsten.Kirsten. Okay. Kirstit,see? I got it. KirstenCinema. She's the senator from Arizona.She's now an independent, right?She was elected as a Democrat, butwas not quite democratic enough for the party
08:17or liberal enough, so she'san independent. Recently saidshe's not going to eat in the cafeteriaanymore because it's justold dudes eatingJello.Did you hear this? No.Well, I'm telling you. See, aren't you glad you listen to
08:33You know what? I lost so much weighteating diet jello. Really?Jellow's great.I don't think that's the point she was going forbut, you know, as atangential topic. Is regularJello like a lot of calories?Yeah. Well, sure. It's all sugar like everything else in it.
08:55But dillow is 40 calories for the whole box and you're feeling hungryand you eat two boxes of jello and you're full and it's 80 calories.Jello. We drink it here.on CNN.We haven't...Okay.All right.It's gotta be.
09:13Any thoughts on the old peopledrinking jello?Because you're talking about.I think her, what you're sayingis that our elected representativesare probably not representative of America.The average age of American is 38.The average age of an elected representative is 64.
09:27Meaning every time someone like AOCis elected to Congress, someone else isdead.I mean, it's...We...And what do you know? Costs of living adjustment, biggest in history for Social Security recipients,and the tax credit, the child tax credit, gets stripped out of the bill.We don't have a representative government.
09:47We have basically people who are much older running our government.We need more youth. We have the second oldest elected populace.We don't have a representative government.Psema is one of the few politicians, I think, on the hill who retains a capacity to surprise.And, you know, but it feels like...Well, also, kind of like to tell it like it is.I mean, I don't...Maybe.
10:14I don't think she was making so much of a political statementas just saying, I don't want to eat with Steny Hoyer.Yeah.I think a lot of members of Congress don't necessarily want to sit down and eat with KristenCeremony at this point either.All right.But we love all politicians in this show, but we have to be mindful of advertisements here on CNN.So, eat your jello, and we'll see you next week.
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