Real Time with Bill Maher - Overtime – Episode #644: Ray Romano, Laura Coates, Walter Kirn

Episode Date: December 16, 2023

Bill Maher and his guests answer viewer questions after the show. (Originally aired 12/15/23) 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 Maugh. You're on CNN, your home therapy director, we're produced and starred in the new movie somewhere in Queens. Ray Romano is over here. It's on Hulu. I loved it. She is the anchor of CNN's Laura Coach Wide. You all know Laura Coates. Okay.

We're a big star and novelist and coast. The America This Week podcast, Walter Kern, was as funny as ever tonight. Okay, so these, I hold in my hand. These are the people right in and here are their questions. We don't know what they are. What does the panel think of Oprah revealing she used a weight loss drug? How dramatically will drugs like Ozempic impact the obesity epidemic in America? Well, it's already happened.

It's already, you know, and I think Oprah was very complimentary about Osambic, right, already? I knew she'd used a drug because she kept the weight off. It seems like every other Oprah diet hasn't worked. It had to be something, right? Right. I think Oprah looks wonderful. But I will say, I'm glad that she's talking about the lack of it. There should not be shame associated with what people are doing.

However, you know, it's going to turn into you get an Ozempic and you get one and you get one different story. Can I ask a question? Please, too. Are we okay with Ozempic? What's the downside? Well, we don't know yet. Yeah. I'm hearing good...

I hear good things. And that it's not only going to be useful for weight loss, but addiction. I mean, it does something to your brain. I don't know. I mean, would I use it? No. I don't... And you use everything, right?

And I am a drug-oficionado. Yes, you're right. Ray, this is for you. Do you think a show like everybody loves Raymond that appealed to people all over the political spectrum would be successful today in our polarized country? I mean, it's what this country needs. But here I am, answering for you.

It's hard to say, I mean, the landscape has changed. TV has changed, and live sitcom in front of an audience is kind of a throwback thing. But I think at the end, funny is funny if it's done right I think it can survive if you do it right I'm much more worried about stand-up

I mean stand-up yeah yeah I mean somebody a friend we both know was telling me about performing recently at some place and there was like mostly millennials and she goes into her act and she's hysterically funny and she said there was

this like feeling of like oh the old person is doing jokes because that's like corny now jokes are corny, Ray. Don't tell jokes. It's corny. Oh, I still go to the clubs. When I'm in New York, I go to the cellar. And please keep telling jokes. They're funny. Yeah.

Don't let the millennials dissuade you. The next time you got to tell them an acronym, you got to do the whole bit and just T-T-Y-L, FMFA, whatever it is. Yeah, it'll be a day where they don't laugh. They just go, L-O-L-L. Right. Okay. See, you are good at this. How will Shohei Otani's landmark $700 million deal with the Dodgers change baseball in professional sports?

I don't know if it'll change it. It's just always moving up. Yeah, it's always been going up. That's why I invested in the Mets when I did. People who say, you're crazy. Why are you buying a piece of a baseball team? I said, because sports is the one thing that always goes up. And it's the, because I did a piece on this one week, it's the one thing you can trust. It's the one because I know that those people who play baseball, those are the absolute best 600 baseball players in the world.

There is no favoritism. There's no nepo babies. In sports, you just got to show up and do the best. And, you know, if LeBron James Kidd isn't good, he won't play. As great a story as that is, he won't play. Otani's changing the sport by being an athlete who can, pitch and hit. I mean, that's unheard of. Well, Babe Ruth did it.

Yeah, and that's it, right? Right. So you're saying there was a gap. This may be an outlier opinion on this, but I think because I think that the way elite athletes work, it's a mental thing. You know, nobody broke the four-minute mile and then one guy did and everybody did.

Right. I think that'll happen with sport with this too. I think there will be other people who hit and pitched. Well, that's what I said. That's why he's going to change. That's how it's going to change. Oh, right, yes. Well, I got news for you. You'll always be the outlier when you

can invest in a sports team. Absolutely. Maybe I am Richard here. You're saying. You're gaming. You're gaming on it. But you know, with Sanjay, that is the amount of the contract that explains the $25

hot dog. Yeah. Is there really a $25? I mean, it's like, you've got a You get a soda. You might get a pretzel. The Cracker Jack toy is not even like a real toy. It's paper.

I mean it's a whole thing. Right. The whole thing now. No, I never understand the American economy. I don't, like Taylor Swift tickets. I read somewhere that the average spent on the... Taylor's $1,300. That includes like travel and merchant...

But like that many people have that much money to waste? I mean, can you mention going to you... They don't. They don't have that much money to waste. They beg bar. They charge up their credit card. I think they get it from their parents. They get it from their parents, and then they turn into Hunter Biden later.

Oh, boy, 400, Biden. Laura, what do you think of Jack Smith taking Trump's immunity claim directly to the Supreme Court? Brilliant. Why not? I mean, why don't go straight to the horse's mouth? I mean, or nine of them. I mean, you're going to have to have a time when you know it's ending up in the Supreme Court. So why go through all the rigamaroon meth or cue at its route? Just give me the answer. Is he immune or not? Do I have a case for your trial in March? Now, Ray claims he's not smart enough to do this show, but he plainly is. Just pretend he isn't and explain the background of this, right?

Dumb it down. No, not dumb it down. But, I mean, people may not have heard about immunity, and I'm a little fuzzy on this, too. So Jack and Jill went up a hill. And then... That's where you... No, honestly, here's what happens. Really, it's this.

Remember that statement by Nixon. If the president does it, it's not illegal. Right. Remember that statement. Well, everything a president does is not an official presidential act. Going to the bathroom, campaigning, creating a crime.

These aren't things that are in the wheelhouse of a president in the same respect. They're trying to figure out if it's not what your official duty is, You get the protection of being able to say, you can't touch me, you can't prosecute me, because everything I'm doing is part of the job. That's the immunity issue. Which of his four trials does this pertain to?

This pertains to the January 6th trial in Washington, D.C., the big one. The big one, the federal trial about election subversion. He's trying to claim that everything he said leading up to January 6, and really on January 6th was all part of a presidential duty, and therefore I can't be prosecuted. You've got to know the answer to that question before you go forward with the trial. Because if he's right, and if the court sides with him, a lot of these cases at the federal level go poof.

Gone. I saw today that Trump is beating Biden by 10 points, 48 to 38. And only last month, Biden was up by four. He lost 14 points in a month, and it's a month where the economy seemed to be getting better. It seemed like inflation is getting more under control. The stock market just had a record high. What was the 14-point loss about it?

It can't all be Hunter Biden. I know we love to pile on Hunter Biden. I don't know. I feel like people talk about the feelonomics, right? How I feel about that thing, more than what the actual data is. And I'm far from my home turf talking about inflation and everything else. I know how much milk costs. I know how much my gas costs.

I know how I feel about both. But people are not always on board and saying, you might be telling me all the wins you have, but if I don't feel like I'm winning, then I'm not winning. and you won't either. I also, so little me this.

I saw in the paper this week that somebody asked Biden if they thought he was the only one who could beat Trump, which I always thought was the whole reason why this person who I like Joe, but I don't think he should be the candidate.

But I thought that's the whole raison dredger for the, he said, yeah, think about 50. He said he thought 50 Democrats could beat Trump. Then why are you there? Who do we? And why did, why? Name one.

Who is the? the one? Do you think that can be... Well, as James Carver said, he said, any centrist Democrat, like, 50-ish, a lot of it's an age thing, could do it. And I kind of agree. And Gavin Newsom's going to be on our first show. It looks like

a pretty strong candidate to me. All right, we got to go. Thank you very much. Oh, I'm sorry. Did you want to... No, I was going to say, everybody loves Ray. Oh. We're welcome too much for that. Thank you, everybody. I see you like that.

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