Jerry O'Connell | Club Random with Bill Maher

Bill Maher welcomes Jerry O’Connell to Club Random with Bill Maher for a conversation that jumps from childhood fame to life in Calabasas. Jerry reflects on the unlikely moment that set his career in motion—when director Rob Reiner told the shy kid from Stand by Me to stop holding back and lean into who he was. That advice, he says, changed everything. From there, the two get into Jerry’s marriage to Rebecca Romijn, the surreal experience of being married to someone once married to John Stamos, and the chaos of raising teenagers in Calabasas. Along the way they cover Kourtney Kardashian’s parking etiquette, the Dean Martin school of zero rehearsal, and why ayahuasca is a hard no for both of them. Support our Advertisers: -Protect your car with CarShield. Get 20% off at http://www.carshield.com with code RANDOM -Try Claude for free at https://www.claude.ai/clubrandom -Try ZipRecruiter for free at https://www.ziprecruiter.com/random Subscribe to the Club Random YouTube channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/clubrandompodcast?sub_confirmation=1⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Watch episodes ad-free – subscribe to Bill Maher’s Substack: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://billmaher.substack.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you listen: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/ClubRandom⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Buy Club Random Merch: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://clubrandom.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices ABOUT CLUB RANDOM Bill Maher rewrites the rules of podcasting the way he did in television in this series of one on one, hour long conversations with a wide variety of unexpected guests in the undisclosed location called Club Random. There’s a whole big world out there that isn’t about politics and Bill and his guests—from Bill Burr and Jerry Seinfeld to Jordan Peterson, Quentin Tarantino and Neil DeGrasse Tyson—talk about all of it. For advertising opportunities please email: [email protected] ABOUT BILL MAHER Bill Maher was the host of “Politically Incorrect” (Comedy Central, ABC) from 1993-2002, and for the last fourteen years on HBO’s “Real Time,” Maher’s combination of unflinching honesty and big laughs have garnered him 40 Emmy nominations. Maher won his first Emmy in 2014 as executive producer for the HBO series, “VICE.” In October of 2008, this same combination was on display in Maher’s uproarious and unprecedented swipe at organized religion, “Religulous.” Maher has written five bestsellers: “True Story,” “Does Anybody Have a Problem with That? Politically Incorrect’s Greatest Hits,” “When You Ride Alone, You Ride with Bin Laden,” “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer,” and most recently, “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass.” FOLLOW CLUB RANDOM https://www.clubrandom.com https://www.facebook.com/Club-Random-101776489118185 https://twitter.com/clubrandom_ https://www.instagram.com/clubrandompodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@clubrandompodcast FOLLOW BILL MAHER https://www.billmaher.com https://twitter.com/billmaher https://www.instagram.com/billmaher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 2:07Speaker 04

  When I made Stand By Me, and my father, I told you he's British, went, um, "Don't tell anyone you were in a movie. This film will never be released."

• 2:17Bill Maher?

  I mean, I had such a good speech, but I knew...

• 2:20Speaker 04

  Give it to us, come on, give us a little bit.

• 2:22Bill Maher?

  I think the first thing I was gonna say was...

• 2:28Speaker 04

  There he is.

• 2:30Bill Maher?

  Who'd you think it was? Who else is ever gonna walk through that door? It's not like the old Dean Martin show where they were surprised when it was, "Oh, look, it's Ella Fitzgerald." Do you remember the old Dean Martin show?

• 2:42Speaker 04

  Vaguely, I mean, a little bit.

• 2:43Bill Maher?

  He only came in one day a week. You know, he didn't know, zero rehearsals. So, everything was a surprise.

• 2:48Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 2:49Bill Maher?

  So, he would go into this one segment of the show where he got with his piano player, and then there was a door, and he didn't know who it was, and it was always every, "Look, it's Sammy Davis."

• 2:58Speaker 04

  Oh, right, right, right. Oh, and he would be surprised.

• 3:00Bill Maher?

  Yes.

• 3:01Speaker 04

  Yeah, that's cool.

• 3:02Bill Maher?

  The whole show was a surprise to him.

• 3:04Speaker 04

  The algorithm gives me a big clip of him singing with this really talented, I think, Brazilian singer doing like a...

• 3:11Bill Maher?

  What do you mean, "the algori...?"

• 3:12Speaker 04

  The algorithm, Instagram, like when I'm scrolling. I spend a lot of time on Instagram. Bill, I have a goal on this show.

• 3:19Bill Maher?

  What's that?

• 3:19Speaker 04

  I want you to get higher than you've ever been on any episode. I want you to blow it in my face.

• 3:25Bill Maher?

  Well, on any episode, that is, that's not gonna happen. I mean, I've had Woody Harrelson and Quentin Tarantino here, and they both are ridiculous, but I'll be happy to blow it in your face. Well, you don't smoke it yourself?

• 3:39Speaker 04

  I don't smoke it myself, but I, listen, I live with someone who smokes.

• 3:45Bill Maher?

  Yeah.

• 3:46Speaker 04

  Vapes, actually.

• 3:47Bill Maher?

  Your wife?

• 3:48Speaker 04

  My wife.

• 3:48Bill Maher?

  Yeah. Okay, is that what we're calling it now? Rebecca Romayne.

• 3:53Speaker 04

  Rebecca Romayne.

• 3:54Bill Maher?

  Yes.

• 3:54Speaker 04

  Look it up, supermodel actress, very successful actress.

• 3:58Bill Maher?

  Yes, we know who she is.

• 4:00Speaker 04

  We've come to see you live.

• 4:01Bill Maher?

  Yes, right.

• 4:03Speaker 04

  The only time my wife finds me appealing, finds me entertaining, finds me attractive.

• 4:14Bill Maher?

  This is not...

• 4:15Speaker 04

  Is intimate with me.

• 4:16Bill Maher?

  Why would she marry...

• 4:17Speaker 04

  The only time my wife, what's the word, touches me is if my wife takes a hit off that pen.

• 4:23Bill Maher?

  Oh, I see.

• 4:24Speaker 04

  So...

• 4:25Bill Maher?

  You know, that's, first of all, I'm sure that's not true. You look great, I mean, you really aged well. You really have, you look great.

• 4:34Speaker 04

  Thank you, you as well, back at you.

• 4:37Bill Maher?

  She obviously married you. And you, how long you been together? Like, a long time now?

• 4:43Speaker 04

  We've been together over 20 years.

• 4:45Bill Maher?

  20 years?

• 4:46Speaker 04

  My wife was previously married to Club Random fans, your guest, John Stamos. I came up, my wife watched. We watched the whole thing from beginning to end. Someone suggested to me today, a comedian whose initials are Howie Mandel, that I get into this podcast game, that John Stamos and I have a call-in relationship show.

• 5:10Bill Maher?

  Now, this is because you and he had beef? Because you had this, you were with the same woman?

• 5:14Speaker 04

  We didn't have beef. John, what is this stuff you always squirt in your drink? I watch every episode and I'm like, what is this? Is this more like cannabis?

• 5:24Bill Maher?

  Jing. Jing, I drink it.

• 5:26Speaker 04

  Is it?

• 5:27Bill Maher?

  No, it's, it's, I tell this every show. It's this stuff that you put into just regular sparkling water, and it turns it into a diet soda that has no chemicals. There.

• 5:43Speaker 04

  So it's a sweetener?

• 5:44Bill Maher?

  Another case of steaks. No, not steaks. I don't want steaks, but thank you. What? Yes, it's a, it's a no chemicals, you know me, health nut. Aren't you a health nut?

• 5:56Speaker 04

  Uh, no. I'm not. I eat a lot of processed food. I eat a lot of takeout. I'm not kidding.

• 6:03Speaker 04

  I know they're not a sponsor, but I mean, I eat a lot of In-N-Out.

• 6:06Bill Maher?

  I'm getting this picture. A guy doesn't get laid unless his wife is high. He's always on Instagram eating shitty food.

• 6:13Speaker 04

  Well, my wife gets high every day, so don't worry about me. I mean, uh...

• 6:16Bill Maher?

  I see.

• 6:18Speaker 04

  No, but I am, I mean, I know you're an advocate for specifically marijuana use, and I just want to say it really is like...

• 6:26Bill Maher?

  Just mine. I don't get, I'm an advocate for me being able to do it. I don't give a shit what anybody else does. You get your own.

• 6:33Speaker 04

  But will you, will you let it, here, cheers. Let me try some of your sweetener, actually.

• 6:39Bill Maher?

  No. Shake it?

• 6:43Speaker 04

  It's not gonna like give me like-

• 6:44Bill Maher?

  Not more than twice that you're playing with it, but yeah, I mean, yeah, I think you'll- And this is not like my favorite flavor, and it looks like it's been here for a long time.

• 6:52Speaker 04

  It smells odd.

• 6:53Bill Maher?

  I have to talk to the staff about things like that.

• 6:55Speaker 04

  Cheers, Bill. Here's to you. I'm one of the only guests on your show that has actually acted with you. We're thespians.

• 7:02Bill Maher?

  Oh, you're talking about Tomcats?

• 7:05Bill Maher?

  Tomcats. 2000, the year.

• 7:08Speaker 04

  Let's tell everyone, it's a film called Tomcats. Young men will know what we're talking about. Young men under the age of 30, around there.

• 7:14Bill Maher?

  Yeah, why did I do that? It was one day of work for me.

• 7:17Speaker 04

  And you made a lot of money.

• 7:19Bill Maher?

  Maybe that was it.

• 7:20Speaker 04

  And they flew you privately.

• 7:21Bill Maher?

  Oh, for sure.

• 7:22Speaker 04

  I know because you said, "When did you get in?" We were shooting in Vegas, and I said, "Oh, I got in yesterday." And you said, "Oh, did they send you the jet?" And I went, "If by 'sent me the jet,' you mean Spirit Airlines."

• 7:35Bill Maher?

  Well, because I was doing Politically Incorrect. I had to like, I shot all day long getting up at the crack of dawn, and had to be back in LA-

• 7:44Speaker 04

  And do your night show, yeah.

• 7:45Bill Maher?

  Politically Incorrect.

• 7:46Speaker 04

  Bill, I want to say you were a great acting partner. You had a lot of dialogue. You probably don't even remember it. You were so great with all your lines.

• 7:53Bill Maher?

  I remember. Are you kidding? Are you-

• 7:55Speaker 04

  I'm being dead serious.

• 7:56Bill Maher?

  Oh, yeah, yeah. No, I could do that level of acting back when I was, I mean, it's funny because the 80s, I'd- Most of my income was from, I did silly movies.

• 8:05Speaker 04

  Sure.

• 8:05Bill Maher?

  There, some of the posters were around here.

• 8:07Speaker 04

  Bill, I thought for many years you were the guy in Body Double.

• 8:11Bill Maher?

  Yes, I wasn't.

• 8:12Speaker 04

  I'm, I know a lot of people thought that though, right?

• 8:15Bill Maher?

  Yes, I was the guy in DC Cab. I was the guy in a bunch of sitcoms, and Murder She Wrote, and things like that. But, so, but then in the 90s, I got what I really should have always been doing, which was the political talk show. For some reason, in the year 2000, they offered me this thing, and I was like, "Oh, maybe I'll get back on the horse, see what that's like. Maybe it'll be fun. I don't know." It couldn't have been fun, because, like, I had to like get up at the crack of dawn, so I flew in the night before in Vegas, and so that was rushed, and I had to fly right back after. So it wasn't like, "Oh, I'm gonna get a fun weekend in Vegas." There was none of that. I remember I played the bad guy. You were the-

• 8:57Speaker 04

  You played the casino boss, and I owed money to you.

• 9:00Bill Maher?

  Right.

• 9:02Bill Maher?

  Exactly, and I was, why they chose me as like the scariest guy in the world, but I feel like I pulled that off pretty well.

• 9:08Speaker 04

  You really did?

• 9:09Bill Maher?

  Not like I was personally gonna beat the shit out of you, but as a guy who could control henchmen.

• 9:14Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 9:14Bill Maher?

  Who would be my henchmen and act as henchmen do.

• 9:18Speaker 04

  You were, uh...

• 9:19Bill Maher?

  I'm a very big advocate for henchmen, by the way. I talked about this once with Mark Cuban, who probably has thousands of henchmen with his money. But, uh, henchmen, I feel, are always like, uh, shot in movies and nobody ever feels for them. I mean, it's just a job to them, they're humans too, but we can just wipe them out, like, like in scores in a row, and no one ever thinks, oh, that was a guy with a, with a wife and kids and a sister, and he just took a henchman job.

• 9:47Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 9:47Bill Maher?

  And, and he's not really a bad guy.

• 9:49Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 9:50Bill Maher?

  And, and certainly wasn't a very good henchman, because he got shot by one guy and like thousands of them went down.

• 9:56Speaker 04

  You should pitch this to the John Wick people, like one of the random people who've been taken out.

• 10:00Bill Maher?

  I would like a, that's a great idea. I would like a movie from the point of view of the henchmen.

• 10:05Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 10:06Bill Maher?

  Uh, I was, yes, I was the casino boss, you owed money. You, uh, I remember being, um, embarrassed by the movie and being in it because it was...

• 10:18Speaker 04

  What? It's a cult classic, were you kidding me? Embarrassed by the film?

• 10:22Bill Maher?

  Well, they were like, you know, in the first scene, they take Viagra at a, at a wedding.

• 10:27Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's a silly movie, yeah.

• 10:29Bill Maher?

  Okay, I was embarrassed by, uh, DC Cab too, I think that's a...

• 10:32Speaker 04

  You shouldn't be embarrassed by DC Cab. I want to tell you, I am, I am, I am younger than you. DC Cab on HBO played non-stop in my childhood. I've seen DC Cab, I'm gonna, this is not an exaggeration. Blow it right over here, Bill.

• 10:56Speaker 04

  It's what we call a freebie.

• 11:00Bill Maher?

  Jesus, what a pussy.

• 11:03Bill Maher?

  My god.

• 11:05Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah.

• 11:06Bill Maher?

  All I did was fucking blow the slightest bit of smoke in you.

• 11:11Speaker 04

  One more, right over here, Bill.

• 11:13Bill Maher?

  Okay, but go ahead with your, what were you saying?

• 11:15Speaker 04

  DC Cab, I've watched it hundreds of times. It's a classic film. I mean, I know it might not have been recognized by the Academy.

• 11:22Bill Maher?

  I think that the B-movies I did, Pizza Man and Cannibal Women and the Avocado Jungle of Death, while more low-budget, were actually better, funnier movies. They're actually kinda funny. No, they're also not Academy Award material. Those ones were just like, I don't know, lowest common denominator sort of, you know, yeah, people to this day say, hey, DC Cab, and if it makes you happy, I'm very glad, all the fans out there. All I ever wanna say to these people is, you know I've gone on to other things.

• 11:59Speaker 04

  And of course you have, and we're not defining you by-

• 12:02Bill Maher?

  No, I know.

• 12:02Speaker 04

  -your role in Tomcats at DC Cab. But I will tell you something. Being that we do have, you know, on this show, a lot of times, people talk about your manager, Mark Gervitz. I heard it in the Dana Carvey, David Spade-

• 12:18Bill Maher?

  Sure.

• 12:18Speaker 04

  -episode, you have a mutual manager. For those watching who are not in the entertainment industry, we have managers who will manage our careers, and you're with them for decades at a time, and they're very helpful.

• 12:30Bill Maher?

  It's like a coach in football. I mean, can he win you the title? Of course not. But can they affect enough of the games, perhaps, to take you over the edge in a close race? Yes.

• 12:42Speaker 04

  And it's a confidant, and it's a protector. So I am with the Mark Gervitz counterpart, Michael Rotenberg-

• 12:50Bill Maher?

  Right.

• 12:50Speaker 04

  -who's at Three Arts, who's a sort of contemporary of Mark Gervitz. They're-

• 12:54Bill Maher?

  Another big manager.

• 12:55Speaker 04

  And they're very good friends. But he said something really interesting to me.

• 13:01Speaker 04

  First of all, as a manager, he said something really fun. I had a TV show that was canceled, right? But like you, like all of us who've been here for decades-

• 13:09Bill Maher?

  Absolutely.

• 13:10Speaker 04

  -we have a lot of TV shows that are canceled.

• 13:12Bill Maher?

  Which one was this?

• 13:13Speaker 04

  I don't even remember. One of the hundreds. And he took me out to dinner.

• 13:21Speaker 04

  God, our managers are always way wealthier than we are. But they took me out to dinner and um

• 13:25Bill Maher?

  Yeah.

• 13:25Speaker 04

  They took me out to dinner and he said, I was really depressed. And he said, if you can figure out how to make this the fun part, looking for the next one, it'll be, this will be a fun career for you. And that really like affected me and how I think now, you know?

• 13:42Bill Maher?

  There's no way you can do that.

• 13:44Speaker 04

  I, I, I

• 13:45Bill Maher?

  That's not the fun part.

• 13:46Speaker 04

  But I try though. I really do. I try.

• 13:50Bill Maher?

  Okay, but that's never gonna be the fun part is when you get kicked on your ass and you have to, yes, it's the part that, it's not the fun part. It's the part that can make you feel good about yourself because you deserve to pat yourself on the back when you pick yourself up, when you could have like let it defeat you. I remember once in a, sitting in a bathtub in a hotel in San Francisco in 1983, I think.

• 14:15Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 14:15Bill Maher?

  Crying in the bathtub because I did not, I was up for the, the sitcom version of Mr. Mom.

• 14:23Speaker 04

  Ah.

• 14:23Bill Maher?

  And I was like right on the one yard line and at the last minute, they gave it to Barry Van Dyke. Not that, not that I remember and not that I'm bitter about it. Exactly.

• 14:33Speaker 04

  Fucking nepo baby.

• 14:34Bill Maher?

  Yes.

• 14:35Speaker 04

  Unfucking real.

• 14:38Speaker 04

  That said, um

• 14:39Bill Maher?

  And I said, I hope your father does not live a long life.

• 14:43Speaker 04

  And look, stop, stop. Oh God, I was just thinking of Dick, I was just thinking of uh Dick Van Dyke. Um, uh, uh, uh, his granddaughter was my kid's teacher in um, in uh, you did say Van Dyke and not Van, not

• 14:58Bill Maher?

  Barry Van Dyke, yes, he was Dick's

• 15:00Speaker 04

  So many vans.

• 15:01Bill Maher?

  But I thought I was funnier, but you know.

• 15:03Speaker 04

  Um, Michael Rotenberg, my manager, we were talking about managers. There's a little inside baseball, but we all have managers in this business. Um, he said to me, you're, you're gonna end up where you're supposed to be. And that really like, that affected me as well, I was.

• 15:16Bill Maher?

  And how would you define where you're supposed to be? Like, well, how would, so if that's true, you fill in that blank for me.

• 15:23Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 15:23Bill Maher?

  Because I feel like you do a lot of things.

• 15:25Speaker 04

  Yes, so that's what, um.

• 15:27Bill Maher?

  You'll take anything.

• 15:29Speaker 04

  You know, no, no, no, no, it's, it's okay, it's, it's funny to say that.

• 15:33Bill Maher?

  Hey, I just did the Hollywood Squares, so I had nothing, I cannot even.

• 15:37Speaker 04

  I, uh, I was hoping to get that offer, they didn't get it. You were to one of the fucking Van Deis. Oh, yeah. But to Dick Van Deis, great, great grandson.

• 15:48Bill Maher?

  Yeah, but you know what? The next day, you get back on the horse. It's, I, I hope that the younger generations, like, have that in them. I don't know, they seem so full of anxiety and they're so oversensitive about everything. And, um, you know, I'm, I mean, we were just talking about how many, uh, my work, how many live at home now? The statistics are very different. It's like eight percent in 1970, like, under 34, lived at home. And now it's like 34 percent or something.

• 16:22Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 16:22Bill Maher?

  And some of that's economic and, and some of it is just, um, you know, I don't know.

• 16:28Speaker 04

  I mean, if I, uh, if I, uh, worked for Mond- Mayor Mondami, I would tell you that's affordability right there, but, um.

• 16:36Bill Maher?

  I hope you don't.

• 16:39Bill Maher?

  Please.

• 16:39Speaker 04

  Let's give him a chance, come on, Bill. I'm a born and raised a New Yorker, let's like see what he can do, you know?

• 16:45Bill Maher?

  Okay, we, absolutely, we can, let's see what he can do. But we already know what he is because it's in his own statements and the people he hires. I talked about him, you say you watch it, you must have seen this, the first show, I was talking about this woman who is his, um.

• 17:03Speaker 04

  I saw, yeah.

• 17:04Bill Maher?

  Her, like, the head of, but, his big, his big issue is, is the rent, you know? He's the rent is too damn high guy. And that's a good issue and he's, affordability is a great issue. And, uh, but, you know, I said, how do I know he's a communist? Well, I'm reading between the lines when he hired someone who says, word for word, let's. Elect more communists. Okay, this is not like something you have to really figure out. Elect more communists. That's a communist. Now, if Barack Obama or any reasonable Democrat had anybody on their staff who had that on their resume, it'd be like a huge scandal. But this guy, this is just where we are. Like communism, I said it, I'm not, it's a political philosophy.

• 17:49Bill Maher?

  It's an economic philosophy. You're allowed to believe it. You're allowed to vote for it. Let's just not pretend that that's not what this is.

• 17:56Speaker 04

  I understand and take another hit while I say this. I want to smell a little more, please, just a little bit more, please.

• 18:02Bill Maher?

  Okay.

• 18:03Speaker 04

  I think it's different running for president of the United States and running for not even New York, a major city, like.

• 18:11Bill Maher?

  Communism is communism.

• 18:12Speaker 04

  But if you think, let me put it this way. If Rick Caruso can't win in Los Angeles, okay?

• 18:23Bill Maher?

  And he can't because it's.

• 18:24Speaker 04

  He can't.

• 18:25Bill Maher?

  No.

• 18:25Speaker 04

  He can't get enough votes. He can't.

• 18:27Bill Maher?

  He cannot.

• 18:28Speaker 04

  If Rick Caruso can't, if the guy who owns the group.

• 18:32Bill Maher?

  Rick Caruso?

• 18:33Speaker 04

  Yeah, I do. I met him at the, I met him at the. Yeah, where I live in Calabasas, which is a town in the outskirts of Los Angeles. It's a sort of a Tony Hamlet of Los Angeles.

• 18:43Bill Maher?

  Very Tony. I think the Kardashians live there.

• 18:45Speaker 04

  Kardashians live there? I have a nodding relationship with them. Um, well, we do. We have a.

• 18:51Bill Maher?

  You mean like you're taking out the trash? You see them taking out the trash, that kind of a thing?

• 18:55Speaker 04

  No, actually, we pass each other in parking lots and I go.

• 18:58Bill Maher?

  Parking lots?

• 18:59Speaker 04

  Yeah, like.

• 19:00Bill Maher?

  What, are you buying fentanyl?

• 19:01Speaker 04

  No, you, we're in malls. It's like the suburbs.

• 19:04Bill Maher?

  You're in malls? You go to the mall and they go to the mall? You see the Kardashians at the mall?

• 19:11Speaker 04

  I'm gonna tell you my.

• 19:11Bill Maher?

  I'm not.

• 19:12Speaker 04

  Okay. I'm gonna tell you my Kardashian, I'm gonna tell you my Kardashian mall story.

• 19:16Bill Maher?

  Great.

• 19:20Speaker 04

  My kid was in a math tutor. A kid was failing math.

• 19:25Bill Maher?

  How old?

• 19:26Speaker 04

  She was 27.

• 19:30Bill Maher?

  Well.

• 19:31Speaker 04

  She was in junior high.

• 19:32Bill Maher?

  Okay.

• 19:33Speaker 04

  She's failing math, so I had to take her to like a math place. I mean, maybe they'll be a sponsor for the show, Mathnesium.

• 19:39Bill Maher?

  Okay.

• 19:40Speaker 04

  They did help her grades, okay?

• 19:41Bill Maher?

  This isn't that school Kanye had, is it?

• 19:45Speaker 04

  My kids go to public school.

• 19:46Bill Maher?

  That's how, you know how serious America is about education when they let Kanye have a school?

• 19:52Speaker 04

  I was there for that time.

• 19:53Bill Maher?

  A school?

• 19:54Speaker 04

  I do remember, I don't know much about education, literally.

• 19:59Speaker 04

  This is what I know about education, okay? My kids were about to go to school.

• 20:03Bill Maher?

  That's all you need to know about America and education. It is, that's all you need to know.

• 20:08Speaker 04

  My kids were about to go to school and I was like, um. I was like, Mom, uh. Called her my mom, you know, my mom is in, my mom's from Jersey City. She was an educator, public school teacher. My kids go to public school.

• 20:22Speaker 04

  By the way, I also read that Malcolm Gladwell book and he's basically like, put them in public school, there's no difference, go.

• 20:27Bill Maher?

  Absolutely.

• 20:27Speaker 04

  And I really adhered to that, you know? And it's great, I'm telling you everybody, it's, it's, I mean, listen, mind you, I live in Calabasas, so some people are gonna say, oh yeah, you live in Calabasas, but. Uh, Malcolm Gladwell really turned me on to the public education thing. Anyway, I called my mom and I said, Mom, um.

• 20:47Speaker 04

  Kanye's got this school, like. Should I send my kids, where should I send my kids to school?

• 20:52Bill Maher?

  Come on, you considered it?

• 20:54Speaker 04

  What do I, what do I do? Like, do I go on Google? Do I go on Yelp? How do I find a school?

• 20:58Bill Maher?

  Go on Spotify. I mean, go, go on any, you know, news outlet, he's, he's very, you know, much in the news, Mr. Kanye.

• 21:08Speaker 04

  But my mom is so funny, my mom, and I love this quote, my mom said, I'll tell you what you do. You call the Shapiro's. You call the Goldsteins. And you ask them where they're sending their kids and that's where you send your kids to school. And she was absolutely right, public school, 100% all the way. Back to my Kardashian story.

• 21:26Bill Maher?

  That's what your mother sounds like?

• 21:28Speaker 04

  Yeah, she's from Jersey City, she talks like this. I actually, when I'm in Stand By Me, you know, I was a kid actor in Stand By Me?

• 21:34Bill Maher?

  We all know that. You were the fat kid?

• 21:38Speaker 04

  I was husky.

• 21:40Bill Maher?

  No, you were the fat kid, but that's okay. Though, I mean, it's made it stand out and made you, I mean, come on, that's, you're always will be golden for that, even if, if you didn't have anything else. I mean, look at Macaulay Culkin, he did a similar kid role, he's still iconic, you know.

• 21:59Speaker 04

  Highly successful podcaster, by the way?

• 22:02Bill Maher?

  Right.

• 22:03Speaker 04

  He is.

• 22:04Bill Maher?

  I mean, but like, you know, you've worked every day since. I mean, he, he didn't, but just that one iconic kid role. And it was the best role to have, the fat kid.

• 22:17Speaker 04

  It's why I'm here, I was husky.

• 22:22Speaker 04

  But, um. It's honestly, it's why this Rob Reiner and his wife murder is, it's really, it's very emotional for me. It's very tough.

• 22:33Bill Maher?

  I'll bet, because he directed that, if people don't remember.

• 22:37Speaker 04

  Rob Reiner directed it, Rob Reiner picked me out of, it was an open call, Bill. He saw something in me, he saw, he, the man changed everything I have.

• 22:48Bill Maher?

  You say he saw something in me like it's a big mystery. He saw what you still have, you're a charismatic guy. People just, it's why you keep being in the public eye and doing different shows and different projects and getting hired. There are certain people, the public just, for reasons that I can find completely understandable, want to see. People just wanna, you know, be around certain people. You are one of those people, because I think it's something, you know, they, they get it. It translates through the screen or wherever, that you really are this guy, nice guy, you know, like.

• 23:22Speaker 04

  Well, you're gonna live with me.

• 23:24Bill Maher?

  What's like, okay, what's your worst trait, do you think? What would your wife say, or what do you say when you're being self-critical? What's your, the worst thing you do?

• 23:32Speaker 04

  Something I'm trying to work on with my wife, my wife says that I stress her out, that I, that I.

• 23:37Bill Maher?

  Doing what?

• 23:39Speaker 04

  Maybe I have anxiety, you know?

• 23:42Bill Maher?

  Anxiety.

• 23:44Speaker 04

  Maybe I, uh, I'm an anxious person.

• 23:47Bill Maher?

  I know the cure for that. A little of this and a little of this. Trust me, it'll go away.

• 23:55Speaker 04

  I'm gonna get back to my Kardashian story, I promise, we're gonna come back around to that.

• 23:58Bill Maher?

  No, I wanna hear about your anxiety first. What do you have anxiety about? And then, and then what do you, how do you stress your wife? Because you're, you're like talking to her about it too much and she's like, you know, honey, it'll all work out. She has to do that a lot?

• 24:13Speaker 04

  I guess I wake up in the morning and I'm like, what is, this is what I have to do today.

• 24:22Bill Maher?

  Be glad you have to do something.

• 24:23Speaker 04

  Yeah, I guess so.

• 24:24Bill Maher?

  Some people wake up and they got nothing to do.

• 24:26Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 24:29Speaker 04

  You know, like waking up in the morning, hey, we have to have lunch at noon 'cause I've gotta go drive over to Club Random at 3:30. I mean, I'm not even kidding, you know, and like... So I, I'm actively trying to not be as stressful around my wife. And my wife is like a laid-back, like Northern California chick, you know?

• 24:49Bill Maher?

  Right.

• 24:50Speaker 04

  We watched her ex on this, man, we watched every second of it. It's fun to watch my wife.

• 24:57Speaker 04

  Watch her ex, it's crazy to watch it.

• 24:59Bill Maher?

  Oh, her ex-lover, her ex-husband?

• 25:01Speaker 04

  Husband, yeah.

• 25:02Bill Maher?

  Right.

• 25:02Speaker 04

  I mean, they're lovers too, you didn't have to remind me of that.

• 25:06Bill Maher?

  So John Stamos was married to her back in the, like when they were both young?

• 25:11Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 25:14Speaker 04

  And I'm, it's sort of, it's a part of my life that my wife doesn't really talk about, so I just try to like glean what I can. And you asked him about it and I'm like...

• 25:21Bill Maher?

  Well, you know, I mean, like, I don't think he would mind us telling this, but since we already... No, I'm talking about somebody else now. Since we already brought him up, which is my manager, his girlfriend used to be Bruce Springsteen's wife. So like, I, I've seen this before and I don't think it bothers him at all because people just go through different phases of their life. And, but like, can you possibly ever block it out? That your woman was with some guy who the world finds super sexy?

• 25:52Speaker 04

  Listen, Bill, my children...

• 25:56Speaker 04

  I never watched Full House, which was the show that he was. Was it you in this? Oh, was this you in the bathtub?

• 26:02Bill Maher?

  No, it's you. But was this stabbing yourself?

• 26:04Speaker 04

  At two root time?

• 26:04Bill Maher?

  Just killing yourself.

• 26:05Speaker 04

  Come on, no, there's no self harm. Come on, and if you do do that.

• 26:09Bill Maher?

  I'm just saying, if you want to, it's here.

• 26:11Speaker 04

  Call someone, thank you, thank you.

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• 27:15Speaker 04

  No, my, I, I never watched Full House, ever. I was too old, you know, I was in my twenties when it came out. That would have been weird if I'd watched a show about like a bunch of kids and stuff.

• 27:26Speaker 04

  Like these Epstein files or something?

• 27:27Bill Maher?

  I agree.

• 27:28Speaker 04

  Yeah. But I, my kids watched it. So I would, I rewatched it when my kids were like young, three and four.

• 27:40Bill Maher?

  Because you watched shows with your kids?

• 27:42Speaker 04

  I was in the living room. You have to make sure they stay alive, kids, you know? So they were like watching TV and you're like on your computer and it's on.

• 27:49Bill Maher?

  It's so, I, I know that this is a thing. It's just so foreign to me that I would ever have to watch TV, something I didn't want to watch because some four-year-old found it amusing. It's just, again, I don't have.

• 28:02Speaker 04

  Bill, you know what? I'm not even kidding. I'm saying this as a huge fan of yours. Personally and publicly, I mean, I watch you. I watch you every week on your show. I watch all these episodes. I'm a fan. I've seen you live. I've paid for tickets to you. Remember you were shocked that I came backstage? And you went, "Why did you pay for tickets?" And I was like, "'Cause we're fans, baby."

• 28:20Bill Maher?

  Jerry, that means so much to me, you know?

• 28:22Speaker 04

  I have two stories I have to get to. How Rob Reiner changed my life, and I'm gonna tell you. And maybe you'll identify with this.

• 28:28Bill Maher?

  Oh, okay.

• 28:30Speaker 04

  I was what they called-

• 28:30Bill Maher?

  So this bumped the Kardashian story.

• 28:32Speaker 04

  I'm getting back to it. I was what they called a hyperactive child, okay?

• 28:36Bill Maher?

  And yet fat.

• 28:39Bill Maher?

  That's so weird that it would be both.

• 28:41Speaker 04

  I'm gonna go full Dreyfus now. That's what you get. You get the full Dreyfus now. You call me fat, I go Dreyfus the rest of this time. I got in a golf cart accident. I'm on a Percocet.

• 28:54Bill Maher?

  But, no, it just seems odd.

• 28:56Speaker 04

  I'm in pain.

• 28:57Bill Maher?

  Okay, so you're hyperactive.

• 29:00Speaker 04

  Hyperactive child.

• 29:01Bill Maher?

  Right.

• 29:02Speaker 04

  My mother, I would always get, they wanted to put me on Ritalin, okay?

• 29:08Bill Maher?

  Wow.

• 29:09Speaker 04

  It was a-

• 29:10Bill Maher?

  It's terrible.

• 29:10Speaker 04

  A drug back then.

• 29:12Bill Maher?

  Sure.

• 29:12Speaker 04

  And I'm in a lot of agreement with you, and-

• 29:19Speaker 04

  As someone who's raising children, I don't believe immediately, I'm sure medication is needed.

• 29:27Bill Maher?

  Sometimes.

• 29:27Speaker 04

  But I think with children.

• 29:28Bill Maher?

  Right.

• 29:29Speaker 04

  I don't think the first answer should be, "Let's get him on something."

• 29:32Bill Maher?

  The first answer shouldn't be, "Let's get him on something," or, "They're in the wrong body." Both things could possibly be relevant, could be. Both things should be much more rare than they have made them. They let ideology lead them to bad science. And these, of course, are the science people.

• 29:54Speaker 04

  This is where my, take another hit if we're gonna talk about gender stuff.

• 29:58Bill Maher?

  We don't need to. I'm just saying that that was a relevant point to make.

• 30:02Speaker 04

  Okay, I was just talking about medication.

• 30:05Bill Maher?

  Okay, you're in the mall.

• 30:08Speaker 04

  No, no, no, no, no, that's the other one.

• 30:10Bill Maher?

  I'm sorry, I'm sorry, we're not there?

• 30:11Speaker 04

  They wanted to put me on Ritalin.

• 30:12Bill Maher?

  You're in the mall, Rob Reiner came up.

• 30:14Speaker 04

  My mother was adamant about them not putting me on Ritalin.

• 30:17Bill Maher?

  Oh.

• 30:18Speaker 04

  Which I adhere to with my children as well, you know?

• 30:25Speaker 04

  I get Stand By Me. I got it. Open call. They saw something. I practiced the sides. I got the role.

• 30:31Bill Maher?

  Had you been auditioning for other stuff and done other stuff before that?

• 30:34Speaker 04

  I had been an extra in a commercial.

• 30:36Bill Maher?

  But you had this ambition to do it?

• 30:39Speaker 04

  I took a weekly class at a place called HB Studios in New York.

• 30:43Bill Maher?

  But how did you wind up at the call for Rob Reiner?

• 30:45Speaker 04

  It was an open call. They were casting young kids. I was at HB Studios.

• 30:49Bill Maher?

  Your mother must have seen it and said, you didn't see it.

• 30:51Speaker 04

  It didn't come through my mother. It came through, uh...

• 30:54Bill Maher?

  My agents.

• 30:55Speaker 04

  What?

• 30:55Bill Maher?

  Your agent.

• 30:56Speaker 04

  I didn't have an agent.

• 30:57Bill Maher?

  It came through Rothenberg.

• 30:59Speaker 04

  Um, no, I didn't mean Rothenberg, uh, Rothenberg. No, it didn't come through Gervis.

• 31:04Bill Maher?

  How are you mad?

• 31:05Speaker 04

  Stop, come on. It was an open call. It came through, um, I don't know how it came through. Maybe through my acting school. I, I don't know. I was always getting in trouble at school. My mother would say to me, can't you just shut up and sit on your hands? Can't you just, when you want to blurt something out? I was getting in trouble for blurting things out, for being funny, for being a class clown, I guess they call it.

• 31:28Bill Maher?

  I was too.

• 31:29Speaker 04

  You were, you were too. My mother would pick me up and like yell at them and say, we're not putting him on Ritalin. And we'd get to the car and she'd go, can't you just shut up and sit on your hands? When you want to say something, you, you, you want to blurt out something, just shut up and sit on your hands.

• 31:47Bill Maher?

  Hard for boys.

• 31:48Speaker 04

  And so I got to tell you.

• 31:49Bill Maher?

  Boys have extra amount of energy.

• 31:52Speaker 04

  My life for three or four years was me wanting to say something, okay? Make a joke about your goo or something and be like, oh God, just shut up and sit on your hands, dude. Just shut up and sit.

• 32:02Bill Maher?

  Yeah, that's not healthy either.

• 32:03Speaker 04

  Just shut up and sit on your hands. And it was my mantra. I, I, Bill, I get Stand By Me, okay? First day on set. For those who know the movie, you'll remember the scene. You won't. But we're throwing like stones in a can and I have a very funny line where I say, um... This is a really good time. And it's like, it's like a touching scene, you know? Because it's like 11-year-old boys doing nothing going, "This is a really good time."

• 32:30Bill Maher?

  Right.

• 32:31Speaker 04

  It's touching. The scene ends, we finish doing the lines, okay? And we're still sitting there, and Rob Reiner doesn't yell "Cut." And so, I do something, I joke with a canteen, or I make a joke about myself. I ad-lib something at the end. It's just silence, you know?

• 32:47Bill Maher?

  Improv.

• 32:48Speaker 04

  I improvised. And Rob Reiner goes, "Cut! Jerry! Jerry!" And he was a big dude, God rest his soul. And I was like, "Oh, fuck, I was supposed to shut up and sit on my... Oh, fuck, I fucking did it, day one. I fucking did it. Oh, God, here we go. I couldn't fucking shut up and sit on my hands." And he comes to set, and we're all sitting on the ground. And so, he's standing over us. "I'm gonna stand, sorry, camera people." And he goes, "Hey, Jerry! More of that. That's what I'm talking about. What he did at the end? That's it, guys. More of that. Jerry, more of that." And I gotta tell you, Bill,

• 33:28Speaker 04

  it changed my fucking life.

• 33:29Bill Maher?

  Yeah.

• 33:29Speaker 04

  It changed my... I think, I replay that moment. I... This is gonna sound obsessive. I replay that moment about 15 times a day in my head. When I'm driving, when I'm walking, when I wanna say something. Because my initial reaction is, "Shut up and sit on your hands." But, no, Rob Reiner said, "Hey, that's it, man." And I gotta tell you, I've been... Maybe you say I'm outgoing and gregarious, and I work all the time. I do it because I'm dying for that moment again. I'm dying for it. I live for it.

• 34:04Bill Maher?

  Let your freak flag fly. Let you be you. That's a... It's a great story, because it just shows, it epitomizes the conflict that goes on with so many people. But especially boys. It is a thing, I mean, lots of people are writing books about this now. You know, it's just, it's just an issue that we sort of...

• 34:28Bill Maher?

  The pendulum never stops in the middle of America. So, men were so bad to so many women for so long, and many still are, that then we had a reckoning in 2017. And then it just became sort of toxic to just be a male. And especially, boys got the backlash, like, young boys got the backlash to an era that they didn't even take part in. And so, they grew up in this time where it was just, you were just, it just, there was no allowance for this kind of male extra energy that especially, boys have. Like, there's a reason why we sometimes separate boys and girls. You know, Boy Scouts now have girls in them. I think this is ridiculous. It's called the Boy Scouts.

• 35:10Bill Maher?

  Do you have to always be fucking stupidly counterintuitive about everything? Girls, they also need time when they're just with girls because they can't be around these knuckleheads.

• 35:22Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 35:22Bill Maher?

  It's, you look like you're angry about this.

• 35:25Speaker 04

  No, I'm not angry, I'm just trying to think about it. And I'm like, this is really what I try to do. I try not to get angry about these things, Bill, okay? And I try to think, what I was thinking was, why would they do that? And maybe it's to take away stigma of gender, I, I don't know.

• 35:41Bill Maher?

  No, I'll tell you why, Jerry, they do it. Because the kind of assholes who live here amongst us, the kind of super woke people, they live to have themselves thought of as the good people, as the social justice warriors. So, they're always looking for some new marginalized people to champion. And of course, the very thought of it is noble. And I get it, and I'm an old-school liberal.

• 36:08Speaker 04

  100%.

• 36:08Bill Maher?

  We've always been there for this.

• 36:10Speaker 04

  100%.

• 36:10Bill Maher?

  And they take it just 10 subway stops too far.

• 36:13Speaker 04

  100%.

• 36:14Bill Maher?

  To places where it's just about making them feel like they're doing something. And you know what? You're not Rosa Parks. You're not anybody who's doing anything. You're just like trying to be this sort of social justice warrior.

• 36:28Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 36:28Bill Maher?

  And there's no war that needs to happen here. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, there's no hate crime happening. Okay, it's just about the way it really is with boys and girls.

• 36:39Speaker 04

  I think I can speak on this as someone who has two 17-year-old girls here in Los Angeles.

• 36:44Bill Maher?

  I thought you said you had young kids.

• 36:45Speaker 04

  They're 17 now. They were young when they watched.

• 36:49Bill Maher?

  Oh, I see.

• 36:51Speaker 04

  Full House. And I'm gonna get back to that story as well. But, um... I see, I see their contemporaries

• 37:03Speaker 04

  dealing with this stuff. Please blow it this way. I need it more than ever now. Right over here.

• 37:09Bill Maher?

  Just take it. For fuck's sake. I mean, what is wrong with you?

• 37:13Speaker 04

  I, um, I see it and really, I, I, I'm sure you're the same way. The goal is to make them feel as safe as possible, especially at that precarious age. It's just, it's such a tough age.

• 37:27Bill Maher?

  And I'm saying it just is sometimes the case with the woke people that they are their own worst enemies with so much of this shit. You talk about your boyfriend, Mamdammy, in New York. I don't know what the tally is.

• 37:41Speaker 04

  How he became my boyfriend, but.

• 37:42Bill Maher?

  Yeah, I don't know what the tally is.

• 37:44Speaker 04

  Casually seeing each other.

• 37:45Bill Maher?

  I don't know what the tally is now, but it's, it's in the at least high teens of homeless people who have died in the freezing because it's just not the policy of the woke to ever think that we could like forcibly get people off the street. Which is what we used to think.

• 38:07Speaker 04

  Right. Well, there were vagrancy laws. When I was younger, there was no vagrancy.

• 38:11Bill Maher?

  It was what we thought was compassionate to not be sleeping in fucking zero degree weather on the sidewalk. As opposed to their, you know, protecting them like they're some sort of endangered species in their natural habitat. So I only bring this up to say analogous to, and I could name 10 things. I don't want to because I don't want this to be so political. But where the woke people go way past where liberals like me and sensible people are to a place that is ridiculous.

• 38:41Speaker 04

  I totally hear what you're saying.

• 38:43Bill Maher?

  Okay.

• 38:44Speaker 04

  That said, um. I think you're trying to

• 38:52Speaker 04

  inflict your ideas on a city that voted for Mondami. And voted for Karen Bass. Like, this is where we live.

• 39:00Bill Maher?

  I'm always trying to inflict my ideas.

• 39:03Speaker 04

  I shouldn't have said inflict.

• 39:04Bill Maher?

  No, no.

• 39:04Speaker 04

  Infact. Sorry, sorry.

• 39:07Bill Maher?

  I love that. That's hysterical.

• 39:10Speaker 04

  Goo. What did you call it? You're goo.

• 39:14Bill Maher?

  Goo. Back to the card, Dash.

• 39:17Speaker 04

  No, let me get to my Stamos story first.

• 39:18Bill Maher?

  Oh, great.

• 39:19Speaker 04

  My kids are watching Full House. I was watching it with them. You should be a father.

• 39:23Bill Maher?

  And once again, this is the guy who was married to the woman you-

• 39:26Speaker 04

  To my current wife. We'll see if we're still married after this podcast drops.

• 39:30Bill Maher?

  Who was with him for a brief period of time and has been with you for over 20 years.

• 39:34Speaker 04

  Yeah. By the way, I'm sure, as you said, they were, what did you call them, lovers?

• 39:39Bill Maher?

  How long were they, how long were they married for? Just a couple of years, right?

• 39:43Speaker 04

  Six years, 14 days.

• 39:45Bill Maher?

  Six, is that really six years?

• 39:47Speaker 04

  14 days. I'm kidding. I don't know the exact, I'm gonna guess five, six years.

• 39:51Bill Maher?

  It was a brief period of time, a brief period of very, very hot sex. And then

• 39:58Bill Maher?

  and then it burned itself out, as it always does.

• 40:01Speaker 04

  Smoking a lot. Must have been smoking a lot of pot.

• 40:03Bill Maher?

  No.

• 40:04Speaker 04

  Allowed affection to happen. My kids are watching it. One of my daughters, who's

• 40:13Speaker 04

  you know, was always like, like into boys and stuff, comes up to me and goes, Dad. His character's name was Uncle Jesse. That was his character's name.

• 40:21Bill Maher?

  All right.

• 40:22Speaker 04

  Comes up to me and goes, Dad, um, I, uh,

• 40:28Speaker 04

  I really like Uncle Jesse.

• 40:29Bill Maher?

  Oh, jeez.

• 40:30Speaker 04

  And I was like, get out of here, because like, a lot of my friends call me, like, I'm on a group text, they all call me Stamos. It's like, it's like, I thought she was like

• 40:40Bill Maher?

  That's not funny.

• 40:40Speaker 04

  messing with me. Um, that's, that's not funny?

• 40:45Bill Maher?

  I, I mean, I feel like, no, I feel like that's just...

• 40:48Speaker 04

  Come on, you gotta laugh, Bill. You just called me the fat kid from Stand By Me for thirty...

• 40:52Bill Maher?

  And that, and that I think is, is fun and funny.

• 40:54Speaker 04

  That's the line for you?

• 40:55Bill Maher?

  Because you have become something very different. That was when you were a kid. Whereas calling you that, I, I wouldn't appreciate that if that, I mean, we, we kid about this, but would I want to be like reminded about it every second? I, I really wouldn't, but, but...

• 41:10Speaker 04

  It's just good old fashioned ribbing, Bill.

• 41:12Bill Maher?

  You know.

• 41:13Speaker 04

  Lighten up.

• 41:14Bill Maher?

  Okay.

• 41:14Speaker 04

  Um...

• 41:15Bill Maher?

  I'm trying to defend you. I mean, just that doesn't hurt me.

• 41:18Speaker 04

  Um, lighten up. This became about frozen homeless people all of a sudden, Jesus. Um, um...

• 41:25Bill Maher?

  Back to the Kardashians.

• 41:27Speaker 04

  So I was like... I told her to get out of here. I said, "Get out of here." And she went, "No, I really like him." And my other kid, they were like three or four. I said to my other kid, "Hey, do you like Uncle Jesse?" And my other kid was like, "Yeah."

• 41:41Bill Maher?

  Oh, jeez.

• 41:41Speaker 04

  And I was like, "Hey, girls, come here, come here. Hit pause, open my computer. I'm gonna show you three-year-old girls a photo, and it's gonna blow your little fucking minds." And they were like, "What?" And I was like,

• 41:58Bill Maher?

  Good for you.

• 41:59Speaker 04

  "Are you ready for this, girls?" And they were like, "Yeah." Stamos, Romaine wedding. My kids were like, "Is, is this AI?" And I was like, "No, girls, no AI. That was taken on good old fashioned film."

• 42:15Bill Maher?

  So this had never come up before in family?

• 42:17Speaker 04

  They were like three. We're gonna sit them down and be like, "Hey, um, we think it's time we told you your mom and John Stamos were really ravenous lovers of each other."

• 42:27Bill Maher?

  So they were three?

• 42:29Speaker 04

  Eh, three or four, yeah.

• 42:30Bill Maher?

  Oh, they were that young?

• 42:31Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 42:32Bill Maher?

  Okay.

• 42:35Speaker 04

  Yeah, my, my father was previously married to my mom. I don't think they ever, I don't remember them sitting me down and being like, um, "Oh, fellas, it's time we told you."

• 42:43Bill Maher?

  Right.

• 42:43Speaker 04

  "Your father exchanged vows with someone who wasn't your mother." It was like, I heard them fighting over alimony my father still had to pay or something.

• 42:51Bill Maher?

  Yeah, they never told me my mother was Jewish.

• 42:54Speaker 04

  Oh, really?

• 42:54Bill Maher?

  We went to Catholic every week, my sister, my father and I. My mother stayed home. I never asked why. It just was always the way it was. It wasn't until I was 13, and it just sort of came up at Christmas time, and I'm like, "What?" That's, I mean, the fact that it never crossed my mind, it tells you a lot about, like, whatever you, whatever you put in a kid's life becomes the norm.

• 43:18Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's true.

• 43:20Bill Maher?

  Which is also sad, because that's why abuse happens also, and kids don't understand how wrong it is.

• 43:26Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 43:27Bill Maher?

  You know?

• 43:27Speaker 04

  You're absolutely right.

• 43:29Bill Maher?

  But let's get back to the homeless dying in the snow.

• 43:31Speaker 04

  No, um, it's funny, my, uh...

• 43:34Bill Maher?

  It's funny?

• 43:35Speaker 04

  No, my, uh, my father's British. My father's old. He's here in LA.

• 43:38Bill Maher?

  Your father's British?

• 43:39Speaker 04

  Yeah, I'm actually a British citizen. Uh, he's, he's from London. He, um, he immigrated to the United States in the late 50s. He's old.

• 43:47Bill Maher?

  Hmm.

• 43:48Speaker 04

  Um, and he moved to Greenwich Village and never left. That's where I was raised, in Greenwich Village.

• 43:52Bill Maher?

  Wow.

• 43:53Speaker 04

  And, um...

• 43:54Bill Maher?

  You're a city kid?

• 43:55Speaker 04

  City kid, yeah.

• 43:56Bill Maher?

  Wow.

• 43:56Speaker 04

  Uh, on the subways, everything. Uh, 1980s, 70s, 80s. Oh, that's another thing, um...

• 44:05Speaker 04

  LA is like, sort of going through it right now, you know? It's not the city I moved to in the 90s, you know? It's hurting. I'm sorry to say, it, it just is. Anyone will tell you that, that lives in Los Angeles.

• 44:15Bill Maher?

  You don't have to be sorry. It's not your fault.

• 44:17Speaker 04

  Um, and it's funny, I'm, I'm never leaving Los Angeles. I love Los Angeles. I love this city.

• 44:22Bill Maher?

  I feel the same way.

• 44:23Speaker 04

  I will never leave, I will, I will never leave the state of California.

• 44:26Bill Maher?

  I tried once, and it just fucking slapped me right in the...

• 44:30Speaker 04

  With Austin? With all those like, stand-up dudes?

• 44:33Bill Maher?

  No, no, no. No, in 2020...

• 44:34Speaker 04

  You doing, you getting on stage at Rogan and stuff? Did you do that move?

• 44:38Bill Maher?

  No, no. Slow down, not Austin. I would not move to Texas. In 2020, there was a week when we had the fire so bad that it blocked out the sun for a week.

• 44:49Speaker 04

  I remember.

• 44:50Bill Maher?

  There was no sun. And I was like, you know what? I pay 13% state tax. You know what I pay that for? The sun.

• 44:57Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 44:58Bill Maher?

  When I, I mean, today is February, whatever.

• 45:00Speaker 04

  Beautiful day.

• 45:01Bill Maher?

  Gorgeous day. I look up in the sky and it goes, that's what I pay my 13% for. That's what I'm, 13% for the sun. If you actually presented that with me, I would, yeah, okay. I will pay 13% for the sun. So when it wasn't here, I looked at places virtually, but I mean, this was during the pandemic, wink, wink.

• 45:23Speaker 04

  Old Zillow?

• 45:23Bill Maher?

  Not that it wasn't a pandemic, it was.

• 45:25Speaker 04

  Let me guess, I want to guess.

• 45:27Bill Maher?

  Miami.

• 45:28Speaker 04

  Oh, whoa, wouldn't guess that.

• 45:29Bill Maher?

  Well, I'm not going to go to someplace cold.

• 45:32Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 45:32Bill Maher?

  I'm not going to leave the United States.

• 45:35Speaker 04

  I could see you in Miami.

• 45:36Bill Maher?

  I could see Miami.

• 45:38Speaker 04

  Well, I could see you. You ever do an episode of Miami Vice? Are you one of those guest stars? No, you know, the famous, by the way, that's on the algorithm, all the famous people that did Miami Vice, Bruce Willis, Gloria Estefan, like.

• 45:50Bill Maher?

  Well, you know, after Tom Catts, I did get typecast as a.

• 45:55Speaker 04

  Don't you ever speak ill of Tom Catts ever, and that is a fucking classic right now.

• 45:59Bill Maher?

  That's what I meant to say. It's a classic.

• 46:01Speaker 04

  Um, I stay in California, not only for the weather, I stay here for the politics. I like the politics of California. It's sort of, it's, it's.

• 46:09Bill Maher?

  I like some of them.

• 46:10Speaker 04

  It's in alignment with me. I, um.

• 46:13Bill Maher?

  I like it better than Oklahoma, but I mean, I know.

• 46:16Speaker 04

  I think I like to live in a state where there's gun control. I think there are less guns on the streets and guns scare me.

• 46:23Speaker 04

  Um, I think.

• 46:25Bill Maher?

  Yeah, I mean, there's still a lot of people with guns.

• 46:27Speaker 04

  I understand that.

• 46:28Bill Maher?

  And if someone breaks into your house, it'd be great if you had one.

• 46:31Speaker 04

  I don't have a gun in my house.

• 46:33Bill Maher?

  Yeah.

• 46:34Speaker 04

  First of all, I have teenagers and also, I told you, my wife is always hitting off that vape. I don't want her like.

• 46:39Bill Maher?

  Well, you know, you can lock it up, the gun.

• 46:42Speaker 04

  I don't trust that. I know, the fingerprint stuff, come on, they're going to figure out a way to.

• 46:46Bill Maher?

  Who's going to figure out?

• 46:47Speaker 04

  I don't know.

• 46:48Bill Maher?

  The kids? The wife? What?

• 46:51Speaker 04

  Yeah, I think guns, look, I'm a believer that guns, like.

• 46:55Bill Maher?

  Kill?

• 46:56Speaker 04

  Kill.

• 46:56Bill Maher?

  Yeah, well, they do.

• 46:57Speaker 04

  And if they're in your house. That increases your potential for someone.

• 47:02Bill Maher?

  You talk about California, the reason why people have big problems with California, and why one-party rule is not a great idea, you do need both parties to keep each other honest, is that we have crazy laws in California, like, if you shoot somebody breaking into your house, it might be you who goes to jail.

• 47:21Speaker 04

  I understand that.

• 47:22Bill Maher?

  Shit like that.

• 47:23Speaker 04

  I understand that.

• 47:24Bill Maher?

  Is what makes people fed up with this state.

• 47:26Speaker 04

  I get it.

• 47:27Bill Maher?

  And then we look up and there's the sun and we go, okay, I'll put up with that too.

• 47:31Speaker 04

  I get it.

• 47:31Bill Maher?

  I'll put up with the over-taxation, the over-regulation, the potholes, the homeless.

• 47:36Speaker 04

  I get it.

• 47:37Bill Maher?

  This bullshit, that bullshit, because the sun is up in the sky and you just cannot switch that out.

• 47:44Speaker 04

  I get it. But, um, that said, getting back to my point, I'm never leaving. Growing up in New York in the 70s and 80s, I've seen this urban, I've seen urban decay. New York City, when I was a child, was, it was Death Wish, New York City.

• 48:05Bill Maher?

  Right.

• 48:06Speaker 04

  And that's what it was. It was. Death Wish was actually, it wasn't an exaggeration. My mom got mugged in our neighborhood, knife to throat. I got mugged, knife to throat. Crack epidemic. Yes, on the train.

• 48:18Bill Maher?

  How old were you?

• 48:19Speaker 04

  Oh my god, 12.

• 48:21Bill Maher?

  12?

• 48:22Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 48:22Bill Maher?

  And you had a knife to your throat?

• 48:23Speaker 04

  Crack?

• 48:24Bill Maher?

  On the train?

• 48:25Speaker 04

  And listen, this is where it gets, this is where it's sick.

• 48:28Bill Maher?

  What did they think you had to offer at 12?

• 48:30Speaker 04

  This is where it's crazy. My mom gave me cab fare. I was visiting my buddy Oliver Ray uptown. She said, "Take a cab home. Take a cab home."

• 48:40Bill Maher?

  And you pocketed the money?

• 48:41Speaker 04

  I pocketed the money and took the subway home.

• 48:44Bill Maher?

  Just like a fat kid.

• 48:45Speaker 04

  And I...

• 48:46Bill Maher?

  Just like a fat kid would.

• 48:49Speaker 04

  I was, uh...

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• 50:21Speaker 04

  I was like pretty much in shape at this time. I was working on my weight.

• 50:25Bill Maher?

  Well, you said 12. Isn't that around what? How old were you when you did Stand By Me?

• 50:29Speaker 04

  It was starting to come off. The pounds were starting to come off.

• 50:30Bill Maher?

  How old were you when you did that movie?

• 50:32Speaker 04

  I was 11.

• 50:32Bill Maher?

  11, see? Okay.

• 50:34Speaker 04

  I was 11. Oh, by the way, it's so funny.

• 50:36Bill Maher?

  But then you went back to New York. You didn't think at that point where you were hot in the industry that you?

• 50:41Speaker 04

  Listen, I blame my parents for this. Like, obviously, like, you look at, like, Elijah Woods, Leonardo DiCaprio's parents, Dakota Fan... You'd think if, like, a kid was in Stand By Me, like, that would be it. I didn't even have an agent or anything. Like, my parents, they had jobs. They didn't know my mom was a teacher in Jersey City. My dad was working with some advertisers.

• 50:59Bill Maher?

  They must have known the movie was a hit.

• 51:01Speaker 04

  When I made Stand By Me, we went away for the summer to Oregon. I came back to New York City. My grandparents came with me. My mother, when she got off of work, came out with me. They were not stage parents at all. I came home, I was telling my father, they had a crane, we were riding the crane, they did these crane shots, it was so great, there was a body, they had a fake body, but then they used a real body, it was so much fun. They had a dolly, and a dolly is when you push in on a shot. And my father, I told you he's British, went, um,

• 51:29Speaker 04

  "You're about to go back to school now. Don't tell anyone you were in a movie."

• 51:34Bill Maher?

  Come on, really?

• 51:35Speaker 04

  "This film will never be released. It will never see the light of day."

• 51:39Bill Maher?

  Are you serious?

• 51:40Speaker 04

  My father had worked with a guy-

• 51:42Bill Maher?

  Have you ever told that story? That's the best.

• 51:44Speaker 04

  I'm sure I have.

• 51:45Bill Maher?

  That is so good.

• 51:46Speaker 04

  My father worked with a guy who left his agency, he worked at an advertising agency-

• 51:50Bill Maher?

  But it's exactly what a British guy would say of his era.

• 51:53Speaker 04

  My father worked with a guy who left the ag- he was a partner, and sold his partnership and everything to go make a horror film in Los Angeles. And it never got released, so the light of day. And he had to come back to the agency and I think start as a copywriter, he had sold like all of his shares, and like, my father told, like, my family told that story, like, can you believe what an idiot? His retirement, he sold it all to go make a movie. And so when I came back, he went, "Don't tell anyone."

• 52:22Bill Maher?

  That's so funny, because you are so the opposite of a stuck-up British prig, you know? That's like, that is so not you.

• 52:29Speaker 04

  Uh, my father's pretty humble, he's not, he's from London, he's not, uh-

• 52:33Bill Maher?

  Yeah, but I mean, a man of that era, uh-

• 52:38Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 52:39Bill Maher?

  From London, I mean, London was a different place, and British stiff upper lip, and, you know, very reserved.

• 52:45Speaker 04

  We're not, uh, we're not those people, you know? My parents aren't, and I'll tell you, it's very difficult raising children of largely the star of Tomcats and the fat kid from Stand By Me. It's, uh, it's really, our one goal as parents is to make sure we're not raising fucking nepo babies who aren't titled-

• 53:09Speaker 04

  I mean, it's bad enough I'm raising my kids in Southern California, who bill. If you, when you have kids, and you're gonna have them. You're, they're gonna talk like this if you're raising them here.

• 53:20Bill Maher?

  I know, and it's so funny.

• 53:21Speaker 04

  It's gonna happen.

• 53:22Bill Maher?

  They've infected your mind, I can tell, because I know you're not really. When you, you, like, every time I say something that's completely commonsensical, which is why you like watching my show.

• 53:34Speaker 04

  I love it. You're the best. You're the voice of reason.

• 53:36Bill Maher?

  I know.

• 53:36Speaker 04

  You're my news source.

• 53:37Bill Maher?

  I know, but I.

• 53:38Speaker 04

  You're my CNN.

• 53:39Bill Maher?

  But I can see that there is a gut reaction that comes from living with a woman and children. Where you're like, wait a second, what did he say about this thing that I should be more woke about? I could see it. It's like, it's, it's, it's beyond intellect. It's just, it's like a gut reaction. Like, I should defend the, oh, but you're right, the homeless really shouldn't be on the sidewalk.

• 54:01Speaker 04

  Full disclosure, um, I'm a, I watch your show all the time, and I watch someone like Patton Oswalt come on here, who's a good friend of mine, and I know.

• 54:11Bill Maher?

  I love him, yeah.

• 54:12Speaker 04

  And it's, uh, I watch how he reacts to some of your politics. It can be trouble for a guy like Patton Oswalt.

• 54:19Bill Maher?

  It can be trouble for most of this town, and that's okay. I do not share. It's funny, I always say to my woke friends, you've probably heard me say it. We voted for the same person, you're just why she lost.

• 54:32Speaker 04

  Oh, John Cale.

• 54:35Bill Maher?

  What? I say it all the time. I said it to John Cryer right in that chair, and it sums up how I feel.

• 54:42Speaker 04

  I have to tell.

• 54:42Bill Maher?

  We voted for the same person. You know what? As long as we're on to this sort of subject, you know what really pisses me off? They wouldn't give this town, uh, I'm gonna take myself out of this, although I'm really in the same category.

• 54:55Speaker 04

  Tax break.

• 54:56Bill Maher?

  They would not give any sort of Emmy nomination to Landman.

• 55:02Speaker 04

  Right.

• 55:03Bill Maher?

  Landman, which is a great fucking show.

• 55:05Speaker 04

  Great show, great dialogue.

• 55:06Bill Maher?

  Great show.

• 55:06Speaker 04

  If you're listening, Tyler, please, I'm available. I'll even work out for him. Like, I know he's jacked.

• 55:11Bill Maher?

  I'm such a fan, I'm available, and I'm really not, because I'm not an actor.

• 55:15Speaker 04

  Tyler, Tomcats.

• 55:16Bill Maher?

  Uh, I think it's Taylor.

• 55:18Speaker 04

  Taylor, sorry. Uh, Taylor, oh, Jesus.

• 55:20Bill Maher?

  I don't know if that's gonna get you a job.

• 55:21Speaker 04

  Beat that out. Taylor Sheridan. Why did I say Tyler?

• 55:25Bill Maher?

  But like, because it's perceived as, like, that's how fucking annoying they are. That they can't even abide by a show that is not specifically tailored to people who run a yoga studio in San Francisco.

• 55:41Speaker 04

  I don't know.

• 55:41Bill Maher?

  You know, it's about the middle of the country.

• 55:44Speaker 04

  It's so great. YNS is so great, too.

• 55:46Bill Maher?

  YNS, love that one. That's another show.

• 55:49Speaker 04

  That origin story, when she goes into the recruiter's office and he goes...

• 55:53Bill Maher?

  It's an amazing factory he's got running there.

• 55:55Speaker 04

  It's awesome. Please.

• 55:56Bill Maher?

  But, okay, but if I can just finish this. It's like, they would not nominate that show because, and Billy Bob Thornton has been in the press complaining about this, as he should, because it's perceived as a conservative show. First of all, even if it was a conservative show, that should be allowed. This is fucking America, you assholes. Okay, but it's, you know what? Landman has girl bosses, has Mexicans, and has a trans character. I mean, it's just not exactly what you are.

• 56:28Speaker 04

  Agreed.

• 56:29Bill Maher?

  And so it's, we have to ignore that and pretend it doesn't exist. You know, you want to know why people vote for Trump? That's why. Your shitty attitude is a real turnoff.

• 56:41Speaker 04

  So, I'm gonna tell you about a bit of...

• 56:46Speaker 04

  Can I say this? Will I Stay Married? Blow it over here. My, um...

• 56:51Bill Maher?

  Sounds like you're gonna blow it over here.

• 56:53Speaker 04

  The night of the election. This third one.

• 56:57Bill Maher?

  Yeah.

• 56:58Speaker 04

  Third election. Everyone knows what I'm talking about here.

• 57:04Speaker 04

  I was watching late at night the returns, and I'll be honest with you, I didn't think Trump was gonna win. I live in California. I didn't think he was gonna win, from what I was hearing.

• 57:11Bill Maher?

  I didn't either.

• 57:12Speaker 04

  I think he was gonna win. This is where I live, you know?

• 57:15Bill Maher?

  Yeah.

• 57:18Speaker 04

  I said something along the lines of like...

• 57:22Speaker 04

  There was no planning, this is what they get. There should have been a primary. I said something along those lines, you know? Like, I was just spitballing ideas as to, it was a shock, you know?

• 57:35Speaker 04

  My wife and daughters,

• 57:38Speaker 04

  without saying anything, became, became physical with me. They were, they were filled with rage. So, if I am being careful with you in how I say things, yes, I live in California. I live with,

• 57:58Bill Maher?

  With,

• 57:58Speaker 04

  not one, not two, but three people who,

• 58:02Speaker 04

  if I made any kind of joke, they would, um, they'd become very angry with me, you know, I,

• 58:11Bill Maher?

  Well,

• 58:11Speaker 04

  so I'm,

• 58:12Bill Maher?

  I don't want to tell you how to live your life, but I couldn't live that way. I would, whatever household or whatever situation I'm in, I say what I truly think, and if it makes you angry, I'm sorry, we'll have to work that out.

• 58:23Speaker 04

  Well, it makes,

• 58:23Bill Maher?

  but I, I am not gonna tuck my tail between my legs and just shut the fuck up. This is what you were dealing with when you were a child. Just sit there and don't say anything.

• 58:33Speaker 04

  Yeah,

• 58:33Bill Maher?

  Sit on your hands, but what happened to Rob Ryder? More of that, Jerry, more of that.

• 58:38Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 58:39Bill Maher?

  Where's Rob Ryder's ghost when you need him to be telling you more of that?

• 58:43Speaker 04

  Yeah, I, uh,

• 58:46Bill Maher?

  Now, tell the Kardashian story.

• 58:48Speaker 04

  Um, pull into this parking lot, my daughter's failing math.

• 58:54Speaker 04

  There's a, uh,

• 58:55Bill Maher?

  I love this show.

• 58:56Speaker 04

  There's a Bentley.

• 58:57Bill Maher?

  It's ridiculous.

• 58:58Speaker 04

  A Bentley. You know what a Bentley, Bentley, huge car, it's the size of,

• 59:01Bill Maher?

  No, I'm from Bulgaria.

• 59:03Speaker 04

  Well, I don't know, I mean, like, a Bentley is a large, it's a larger than, it's a large car.

• 59:08Bill Maher?

  Yeah, I'm 70 and I live in, you know, California.

• 59:11Speaker 04

  Bentley was parked diagonally, taking up three spaces. And I'm walking with my daughter, and I'm trying not to raise nepo babies, and I'm like, you see this shit? This is the kind of shit. This is disgusting. I know you live in Calabasas, I know we're raising you in Calabasas. These people are fucking monsters. Taking up three spaces like this.

• 59:28Bill Maher?

  Absolutely.

• 59:29Speaker 04

  Two, fine. Three, this is a fucking joke. Whoever did this is a monster. Don't ever, you're gonna be driving in a few years if you pass math. And don't ever do this. Like, understand, we have to, like, being someone in society is like, doing, like, helping society out.

• 59:46Bill Maher?

  It shows the sense of entitlement they have.

• 59:49Speaker 04

  Hundred percent, entitlement.

• 59:50Bill Maher?

  Which you never find among 17-year-olds.

• 59:53Speaker 04

  So I'm there with my daughter, and, someone whose initials are,

• 1:00:02Speaker 04

  Not Chloe, not Kim. Who's the other one? Not Chloe or Kim. Somebody help me out.

• 1:00:07Bill Maher?

  Chris?

• 1:00:08Speaker 04

  Not Chris, that's the mom.

• 1:00:09Bill Maher?

  Chloe?

• 1:00:10Speaker 04

  Third one. Chloe's the sister.

• 1:00:11Bill Maher?

  Chloe, Kim, and Courtney.

• 1:00:14Speaker 04

  Courtney Kardashian. She comes out with her kid.

• 1:00:19Speaker 04

  And she says, "We have a nodding relationship, right? I told you. Like, the Kardashians and I, we like cordially like nod at each other."

• 1:00:26Bill Maher?

  Where? Where was this nodding happening?

• 1:00:29Speaker 04

  In the parking lot.

• 1:00:29Bill Maher?

  Oh, in the parking lot before.

• 1:00:31Speaker 04

  Calabasas, yeah.

• 1:00:32Bill Maher?

  Oh.

• 1:00:32Speaker 04

  And so...

• 1:00:33Bill Maher?

  This is not the first time you met in the parking lot.

• 1:00:35Speaker 04

  No, we had like nodding, we have nodding relationships, so I give her...

• 1:00:37Bill Maher?

  I gotta get to this parking lot.

• 1:00:38Speaker 04

  I give her the cordial...

• 1:00:41Speaker 04

  Oh, it's a Rick Caruso parking lot.

• 1:00:43Bill Maher?

  This sounds like a really good parking lot.

• 1:00:45Speaker 04

  I do the cordial, "Hello, my lady."

• 1:00:48Bill Maher?

  Don't say that.

• 1:00:50Speaker 04

  And she gives me the nod.

• 1:00:52Bill Maher?

  Sure.

• 1:00:53Speaker 04

  And I actually said like, "Hi, hi Courtney," and she went, "Hi, Jerry." And we walked past each other and our kids.

• 1:00:59Bill Maher?

  As celebrities do.

• 1:01:01Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:01:01Bill Maher?

  We pretend we know each other even when we don't.

• 1:01:03Speaker 04

  That's how it goes, man.

• 1:01:04Bill Maher?

  "I know you from TV, I know you from TV, we've actually never met."

• 1:01:08Speaker 04

  Tomcats, DC Cap, what's up?

• 1:01:09Bill Maher?

  Exactly.

• 1:01:11Speaker 04

  Do the nod, she goes and gets in that Bentley. That's taking up three spaces. And I went, "It's good to see you, Courtney." And she gets in, starts it up and pulls off. And my daughter says, "Weren't you gonna say something to her about the three spaces and taking up all the spaces?" And I was like, "You shut the fuck up. That's Courtney Kardashian."

• 1:01:32Speaker 04

  You shut up. There is a hierarchy in this town. And you better fucking learn it if you wanna be in this town. Now go pass math.

• 1:01:39Bill Maher?

  Jerry, you gotta hang out with me more.

• 1:01:41Speaker 04

  Anytime, Bill.

• 1:01:42Bill Maher?

  I gotta...

• 1:01:43Speaker 04

  First time, long time. Isn't that what they say in sports radio?

• 1:01:46Bill Maher?

  I gotta, I'm gonna put that Rob Ryder back in you.

• 1:01:50Speaker 04

  One more hit for me.

• 1:01:51Bill Maher?

  I am gonna put that...

• 1:01:51Speaker 04

  By the way, I've been scared to come on your show, but you know what?

• 1:01:54Bill Maher?

  I am gonna put that Rob Ryder back in you.

• 1:01:56Speaker 04

  I'm alive. I might not be married when this airs, but I'm alive.

• 1:02:02Bill Maher?

  You'll be married. She loves you. I can tell, I can tell.

• 1:02:05Speaker 04

  One more on my face for the drive home. Right there, big one.

• 1:02:13Bill Maher?

  Is this all a gag, or do you actually feel that? Because, because I do know, you're not the first person, by the way, who does this. I don't think he would mind me saying this, so I'm gonna say it.

• 1:02:27Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:02:28Bill Maher?

  But one other famous person who, just the exact same thing as Joe Walsh of the Eagles.

• 1:02:34Speaker 04

  I saw them. I saw that fucking Sphere concert. You gotta go. By the way.

• 1:02:38Bill Maher?

  I've seen the Eagles five times.

• 1:02:39Speaker 04

  Dude, you haven't seen it until you've seen the Sphere.

• 1:02:42Bill Maher?

  Yeah, I intend to go.

• 1:02:43Speaker 04

  Oh my god, it's a different experience. Change is concert going.

• 1:02:47Bill Maher?

  Yes.

• 1:02:48Speaker 04

  Oh, I'll tell you a fun drug story. I went with, it was my wife's birthday.

• 1:02:55Speaker 04

  Some people did cocaine and mushrooms, which is weird.

• 1:02:59Bill Maher?

  Some people?

• 1:03:00Speaker 04

  Some people did.

• 1:03:01Bill Maher?

  Who are these people?

• 1:03:02Speaker 04

  Ecstasy, Molly, whatever they call it.

• 1:03:05Bill Maher?

  This is the last, very recent?

• 1:03:06Speaker 04

  This is when we went to the Sphere. Some people did, this is the group that we were with.

• 1:03:11Bill Maher?

  Oh.

• 1:03:11Speaker 04

  Some people did acid. They do acid now. It's called unicorn spray. You spray it.

• 1:03:16Bill Maher?

  This is a big group?

• 1:03:17Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 1:03:18Bill Maher?

  All those drugs?

• 1:03:19Speaker 04

  Some people didn't do anything.

• 1:03:21Bill Maher?

  Wow, a lot of people.

• 1:03:22Speaker 04

  Who do you think, I took a test. I really wanted to study this. I was like, when am I gonna get a chance to like, see this? Who do you think had the most fun?

• 1:03:31Bill Maher?

  Elizabeth Warren.

• 1:03:34Bill Maher?

  I don't know.

• 1:03:35Speaker 04

  The acid people.

• 1:03:36Bill Maher?

  Oh, among the drug addicts?

• 1:03:38Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:03:40Bill Maher?

  Well, I don't know what acid is anymore, since it's been 30 years since I did it, so.

• 1:03:46Speaker 04

  I think it's pretty like.

• 1:03:48Bill Maher?

  I've heard it's great.

• 1:03:49Speaker 04

  I gotta tell you.

• 1:03:51Bill Maher?

  Oh, no, no, no.

• 1:03:52Speaker 04

  Moms are doing it. Like, moms are partying on the weekends.

• 1:03:54Bill Maher?

  Oh, no, acid is not your father's acid. There's a whole, I absolutely know this. I'm not particularly interested in trying it myself at this age. I wish I felt more confident to do things like that, but no, it's just not smart for me. But.

• 1:04:10Speaker 04

  I think they do it, they call it microdosing. I mean, they drink the whole bottle, but it was microdosing.

• 1:04:15Bill Maher?

  But they have, they have refined it, so that it is not quite what it was before, which was an all-out trip, where you're either like, falling off, thinking you can fly and diving off a building.

• 1:04:27Speaker 04

  By the way, a mom sold. Us the acid, a mom.

• 1:04:31Bill Maher?

  Imam, like a Muslim preacher?

• 1:04:34Speaker 04

  No, no, a mom, mother, mommy.

• 1:04:36Bill Maher?

  Oh, a mom.

• 1:04:37Speaker 04

  Like a mom.

• 1:04:37Bill Maher?

  The Imam.

• 1:04:38Speaker 04

  Everything gets back to religion with you.

• 1:04:42Bill Maher?

  Yeah, I mean, drugs are whole, it's a whole different world out there with the microdosing. I mean, I tried microdosing mushrooms and my only reaction was, oh, really? Then what's the point? Like, either you're gonna go full on or not. I mean, it wasn't, it wasn't really a trip and it really wasn't.

• 1:04:58Speaker 04

  Oh, you do those ayahuasca things that everybody calls?

• 1:05:00Bill Maher?

  Well, that's a full-on thing, no. I mean, that is a whole different thing. And that I don't see as like what we're talking about. We're talking about partying here with the fun drugs.

• 1:05:08Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:05:09Bill Maher?

  Ayahuasca's not that. Ayahuasca is a deep dive into your psyche. And you have to really wanna do that, be prepared to do that.

• 1:05:18Speaker 04

  I don't wanna do it.

• 1:05:19Bill Maher?

  I don't wanna do it either.

• 1:05:21Speaker 04

  I keep it inside, it's better to keep it inside.

• 1:05:23Bill Maher?

  I don't know if it's better, but I don't know, what am I gonna do at 70? How like, what am I gonna like reorient my whole life because the ayahuasca? And also, I don't feel like I've been that bad. I know my life, I know me.

• 1:05:36Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:05:37Bill Maher?

  I know who my friends are.

• 1:05:38Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:05:38Bill Maher?

  I know what I believe, I know who likes me. It, it all adds up to not a emergency.

• 1:05:44Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's so funny, somebody really tried to talk me into that ayahuasca thing and

• 1:05:50Speaker 04

  the way they described it, and I'm sorry to ayahuasca people, they're gonna go off in the comments right now. But they said like-

• 1:05:55Bill Maher?

  God, Jerry.

• 1:05:55Speaker 04

  They, they said like-

• 1:05:57Bill Maher?

  Here's what they say in the comments.

• 1:05:58Speaker 04

  They said like, you know, there is some diarrhea and vomiting involved and like all that stuff.

• 1:06:01Bill Maher?

  You gotta stop caring about your kids, your wife, and the comments.

• 1:06:03Speaker 04

  Well, I live with my kids and wife, so I have to care about them.

• 1:06:06Bill Maher?

  Okay, but like-

• 1:06:08Speaker 04

  They have access to the gun.

• 1:06:09Bill Maher?

  But you can think differently than they-

• 1:06:13Bill Maher?

  You can think differently than they can, and that's okay. You're a different guy, raised in a different era, with a different anatomy. And you are going to naturally feel and think some different things. And maybe you're right too. You have lived longer. Usually in societies, we think that people who live longer have more wisdom. Not always, there are some old fools. But in general, like, I mean, we shouldn't just dismiss out of hand the possibility that your feelings and your opinions are correct.

• 1:06:46Speaker 04

  I gotta tell you something, Bill, it's funny you say that. I don't think anyone's right. I'm not kidding, I don't think anyone's correct. I don't think there is a correct answer to anything.

• 1:06:55Bill Maher?

  Well, there may not be a correct answer, but in a world nowadays where people say, "It's my truth." Yes, there's my truth and your truth. There is also the truth sometimes. There is the truth. Sometimes there is just the truth.

• 1:07:11Speaker 04

  That's why I pay out-of-pocket tickets for you.

• 1:07:16Bill Maher?

  This is not wood, it's concrete. That's not my truth. That just is the truth. There's a lot of stuff where you can say gray area, and we've certainly moved those goalposts to where it's almost everything. You know, we used to have a shared view, at least about the facts. We don't have that anymore. But some things are the truth, and I'll admit that about the things even which I'm supposed to be on the other side of it. You know, like, I'm not an anti-vaxxer, but I didn't appreciate the way we treated COVID in this country. But it is just the truth, that it was an actual epidemic and that the vaccine did actually save millions of lives.

• 1:07:55Speaker 04

  No, I took it as... I think I went three times and then I was like, "All right, I feel good."

• 1:08:00Bill Maher?

  Okay, well, I didn't want any one of them. But that's...

• 1:08:05Speaker 04

  But I got my shingles shot, too. I'm that old. Can you believe I'm that old? I had to get a shingles vaccine. By the way, let's get some of that pharmaceutical stuff. A number of this, like, sweetener stuff. Let's get like, get like, the big ones here. Taylor Sheridan.

• 1:08:17Bill Maher?

  Did you ever do drugs in your heyday, though? I mean, like, when you were a young Blade?

• 1:08:21Speaker 04

  No, booze. You know, I'm sort of an...

• 1:08:24Bill Maher?

  Really?

• 1:08:24Speaker 04

  Yeah, I'm an Irish, Polish, Italian-American, and booze was my thing. Booze. Booze.

• 1:08:32Bill Maher?

  But, I mean, when you did Tomcats, the year 2000, you're single, right?

• 1:08:38Speaker 04

  Booze, boozing.

• 1:08:39Bill Maher?

  You're single.

• 1:08:39Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:08:40Bill Maher?

  You're a star.

• 1:08:41Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:08:42Bill Maher?

  You're a good-looking young guy.

• 1:08:43Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:08:44Bill Maher?

  I mean, there must have been a lot of female interest in you, and there must have been a lot of nights out.

• 1:08:51Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:08:52Bill Maher?

  Did you not take advantage of being a young, handsome star in Hollywood?

• 1:08:56Speaker 04

  I took advantage of it. I liked being in relationships. I loved the company of other women. I love... I was like a dinner. I'd like to go out to dinner, you know? I like to...

• 1:09:05Bill Maher?

  Sure.

• 1:09:06Speaker 04

  I love, I love making girls laugh.

• 1:09:08Bill Maher?

  But I mean, was there a period? I do too.

• 1:09:11Speaker 04

  I'm serious.

• 1:09:12Bill Maher?

  Yeah, I am serious too. And also sex.

• 1:09:16Speaker 04

  Yeah, love that too. Hard feeling.

• 1:09:18Bill Maher?

  But I'm saying, was there a period where you were a single man? Who you like, you really did not wanna get married for a while? Because it was just too much fun to be out there and you were and you were playing the field, as they say.

• 1:09:30Speaker 04

  I'm gonna tell you.

• 1:09:30Bill Maher?

  Were you playing the field?

• 1:09:32Speaker 04

  Well, Bill, I got married, um, you know, uh, for Los Angeles. I'm not speaking for the rest of the world. I got married at 33, which is in Los Angeles. I was the first one of my friends to get married. 33 was the youngest. My guy friends were like, "What are you fucking doing?"

• 1:09:49Bill Maher?

  Right.

• 1:09:49Speaker 04

  "This is way too young, dude." My friends, we weren't even, I was living in a condo. We weren't even close to getting married. I met Rebecca Romaine.

• 1:10:00Speaker 04

  Rebecca Romaine was recently divorced. We dated for about a-

• 1:10:04Bill Maher?

  From who?

• 1:10:10Speaker 04

  We dated for months, close to a year. I gotta tell you, every time I was

• 1:10:19Speaker 04

  intimate with Rebecca Romaine, I would say to myself, "I can't fucking believe this is happening right now. I can't believe this is my life." Like, I would be like, "Oh, that was fun." And then I'd go to the bathroom and be like, "Just give me a second." And I'd look in the mirror and I'd be like, "I fucking did it. I can't believe this is my life right now."

• 1:10:37Bill Maher?

  Why? She's gotta fuck somebody.

• 1:10:39Speaker 04

  I know, but me, like-

• 1:10:41Bill Maher?

  Why not you?

• 1:10:42Speaker 04

  Bill, she's on the cover of Sports Illustrated numerous times. She was the Blue Lady from X-Men.

• 1:10:47Bill Maher?

  Okay, but there's only one James Bond, you know? I mean, somebody else has to step in when Uncle Jesse's busy.

• 1:10:54Speaker 04

  But, uh, but you know, the fat kid from Stan- She picked the fat kid from Stand By Me. You said it yourself.

• 1:11:00Bill Maher?

  No, suddenly the fat kid is valued. Suddenly that's great merit to say the fat kid.

• 1:11:06Speaker 04

  I, I, I mean-

• 1:11:07Bill Maher?

  I love it.

• 1:11:08Speaker 04

  My wife said, who was, now we're dating, my wife is 31 now. My wife said, "Listen, I wanna have kids at some point. Is that something that interests you?"

• 1:11:19Bill Maher?

  Right.

• 1:11:19Speaker 04

  And I was like, "Uh, yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah, of course." Yeah, anything I can do to keep this going.

• 1:11:27Speaker 04

  So, we got married a couple of years later and we it was so funny trying to have, I'll tell you as someone, talk about goo. I had spent my whole life. Take another hit. You thought this episode was over. This is the extra stuff. This is the Patreon stuff, everybody.

• 1:11:45Bill Maher?

  It's never over.

• 1:11:47Speaker 04

  I, uh...

• 1:11:50Speaker 04

  One of the most unnatural things I've ever done was trying to get someone pregnant. My whole life had been, I had an uncle, Jerry DeSappio, I hope he's listening to this, lives in Monmouth, New Jersey. When I moved to Los Angeles, he drove me to the airport, gave me money, gave me some cash, some walking around money. And he said, "Just do me a favor, whatever you do.

• 1:12:11Speaker 04

  Don't get anybody pregnant. You can never do, you can't get anybody pregnant." Like, that's the one thing. I was 21, just out of college. Don't get anybody pregnant.

• 1:12:20Speaker 04

  So I had tried all those years to not get anyone pregnant. Finally, my wife said, like, "Let's try and get pregnant." I was like,

• 1:12:27Speaker 04

  "You want me to try and get you pregnant?"

• 1:12:29Bill Maher?

  I can give you a tip on how to do it. When you come, leave your dick in it. I mean, it'll work every, it'll work almost every time.

• 1:12:36Speaker 04

  No, you have sponsors, what are you doing?

• 1:12:41Bill Maher?

  Anyway, so why did you have to try? I mean, that didn't work just normal?

• 1:12:45Speaker 04

  Uh, you gotta try a little, you gotta try a little bit.

• 1:12:48Bill Maher?

  Yeah, but I mean, if you're a newlywed and you're fucking all the time, you're gonna be fucking when she's ovulating and then, I mean, the sperm, I mean, it's nature. I mean, people have more of a problem stopping it than starting it. Starting it is, is, you know, you just don't have to be a rocket scientist to get that. Unless you have some issue. You had some issue, the two little, uh... Well, obviously it worked. It worked.

• 1:13:15Speaker 04

  I didn't have an issue.

• 1:13:16Bill Maher?

  Okay.

• 1:13:18Speaker 04

  Fuck, you mean I had an issue?

• 1:13:20Bill Maher?

  I know, you obviously, you, you, you put your sperm in a lady and she made children come out. You're, you're, you're a virile man.

• 1:13:27Speaker 04

  By the way, this is the most scientific episode of Clomorantum that we've had. This is like a health class. This is great. What's about ovulation?

• 1:13:35Bill Maher?

  I mean, I have spent my life trying to do the opposite.

• 1:13:38Speaker 04

  That's what I'm saying, that was my point.

• 1:13:40Bill Maher?

  And I feel like that causes, you're talking about anxiety, my friend.

• 1:13:43Speaker 04

  Yeah, it does.

• 1:13:44Bill Maher?

  I mean, there's much more anxiety. And there was years when I was a young.

• 1:13:48Speaker 04

  Scared. Scared of phone calls.

• 1:13:51Bill Maher?

  And stupider when I was a young Swain. When, you know, I may not have been as a perfect with the safe sex.

• 1:14:00Speaker 04

  Sure.

• 1:14:01Bill Maher?

  Thing as you, you get older, you get smarter and wiser and more responsible.

• 1:14:05Speaker 04

  Of course.

• 1:14:06Bill Maher?

  Sometimes when you're younger, you know, it's like you use the rubber the first time. And then it's like the second time, well, we know each other now. Of course, we use a condom when we don't know each other. What do you mean, we don't know each other? I just, fuck you. We know each other good.

• 1:14:28Speaker 04

  I think we've covered it all. I mean, what else is left?

• 1:14:31Bill Maher?

  I don't know.

• 1:14:33Speaker 04

  Rest in peace, Rob Reiner. It's so funny, your, um.

• 1:14:35Bill Maher?

  Okay.

• 1:14:36Speaker 04

  Your producer said, do you have anything to plug? And I was like, no, I actually do have something to plug. Um, we're doing these live shows of Stand By Me. It's me, Corey Feldman and Will Wheaton. And what they do is this guy, Dan Pasternak, you probably know him, he's like a comedy. He's like a comedy curator guy. We screen the film in these 1,500 seat houses, big houses.

• 1:15:00Speaker 04

  And I wa, uh, we, we're going to a bunch of cities. Go on the website, standbymelive.com. And, um, we screen it and we watch it. And then afterwards, we have a talk and every night is different. Uh, it brings back memories for some of us. Um, it's very emotional.

• 1:15:17Bill Maher?

  I bet it is.

• 1:15:18Speaker 04

  And we haven't done it since God rest his soul, Rob Reiner and his wife passed. It's gonna be very emotional.

• 1:15:24Bill Maher?

  That's gonna be very emotional.

• 1:15:25Speaker 04

  And then you know what's fun?

• 1:15:26Bill Maher?

  When is this happening?

• 1:15:27Speaker 04

  Um, it happens, dates in March and there's gonna be later dates. There's a website called standbymelive.com. It's going to all the cities. It's like a tour, um, an entertainment group called Mills.

• 1:15:38Bill Maher?

  You show the movie and then you get on stage and take questions and.

• 1:15:41Speaker 04

  We show the movie.

• 1:15:42Bill Maher?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:15:42Speaker 04

  And then we take questions and we, we just talk and it's, you know, it's really fun for me because I've seen the movie since it came out. I, I have never seen it in a theater since opening day with my grandparents.

• 1:15:55Bill Maher?

  Is that right?

• 1:15:56Speaker 04

  And on Fifth Avenue, across from Alexander's, on Madison Avenue, across from Alexander's, saw matinee, empty theater with my grandparents.

• 1:16:05Speaker 04

  And it's so aw- by the way, I kill on the movie.

• 1:16:10Bill Maher?

  You do?

• 1:16:11Speaker 04

  Like people.

• 1:16:12Bill Maher?

  Yeah.

• 1:16:13Speaker 04

  All the laughs are right there.

• 1:16:14Bill Maher?

  Right.

• 1:16:15Speaker 04

  It's just such-

• 1:16:16Bill Maher?

  It's the best part is the fat kid. I'm not trying to just say it. I'm just telling you, it's the best part. When I got my first sitcom, I was the office creep. Does that sound like a compliment? No, but it was the best part to have. The other three people, Gina Davis, she was awesome and she's a big star.

• 1:16:35Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:16:35Bill Maher?

  Alfred Woodard, Oscar nominee, Bronson Pinchot, they're all very talented people.

• 1:16:40Speaker 04

  Sure.

• 1:16:40Bill Maher?

  But I was the office creep. All their lines, if you looked at the script, you could kind of interchange them. They were just three nice people. I was the office creep and you were the fat kid. And that's, it's good, you know, so.

• 1:16:54Speaker 04

  We gotta do something about the film industry here in Los Angeles. It's really-

• 1:16:58Bill Maher?

  We?

• 1:16:58Speaker 04

  Yeah, we.

• 1:16:59Bill Maher?

  Like us, we can do this?

• 1:17:00Speaker 04

  I don't think we can.

• 1:17:01Bill Maher?

  I'm not in the industry.

• 1:17:03Speaker 04

  You are in the industry.

• 1:17:04Bill Maher?

  Not the film industry.

• 1:17:05Speaker 04

  You work on a studio. You work, you still work in a studio.

• 1:17:09Bill Maher?

  Yeah, okay. What do we have to do?

• 1:17:13Speaker 04

  Gotta figure out how to get those stages filled again. I mean, I'm just saying that because you worked on a sitcom when I'm sure it was like-

• 1:17:18Bill Maher?

  But part of this is unions. Part of this gets back to something where your, your natural inclination, living with the woke, is to, is to go, wait a second, don't attack unions, there's some, and it's like, well, you know what? Yeah, that's, I mean, I read that's gonna, that we might be heading for another strike. The deal that they just struck a couple of years ago is, it's already up.

• 1:17:47Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:17:48Bill Maher?

  And now.

• 1:17:49Speaker 04

  I remember the, I remember the heat that you caught saying, if it's not, if we don't come to an end, something's gonna happen. I was, Bill, I couldn't believe that-

• 1:17:57Bill Maher?

  I wasn't the first one to go back to work. That was, I think Drew and the ladies from The Talk and some other show. They all said they were gonna go back and I said, yeah, I think that's a good idea. I mean, it had stretched on for a long time. I'm not anti-union, I'm not- About getting a

• 1:18:16Speaker 04

  Hundred percent.

• 1:18:16Bill Maher?

  A good deal, but you know, we do have some information, actual facts. Since that strike, and I think I don't, don't quote me on the number, but a very, very, very high number, I thought when I read it, like forty percent, something like that of jobs never came back. So like, again, per my theme of, let's do what practically makes sense for the old school liberals of the world, as opposed to what just sometimes seems performative. Now, again, people should absolutely get what they deserve, but also, you know, we live in a,

• 1:18:57Bill Maher?

  the era we live in, I can't change the fact that Telly Norwood is now a movie star. You know who that is?

• 1:19:05Speaker 04

  No, I don't, I'm so sorry.

• 1:19:06Bill Maher?

  That's the AI actress.

• 1:19:08Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 1:19:09Bill Maher?

  Telly Norwood, she's not real, Jerry.

• 1:19:12Speaker 04

  How many spaces does she take when she parks in?

• 1:19:14Bill Maher?

  I don't know, but.

• 1:19:15Speaker 04

  Caruso Mall.

• 1:19:16Bill Maher?

  None, because she doesn't exist outside of AI.

• 1:19:20Speaker 04

  Is she attractive?

• 1:19:21Bill Maher?

  She's very attractive. I mean, I mean, this is the future of movies, they're gonna shoot it for ten dollars.

• 1:19:28Speaker 04

  Does she have to get high in order for to have a conversation?

• 1:19:31Bill Maher?

  That's the point, they're gonna wanna hire Tilly Norwood.

• 1:19:34Speaker 04

  No, they won't, I'm not afraid of AI.

• 1:19:35Bill Maher?

  Oh.

• 1:19:36Speaker 04

  Nobody, could AI recreate who you are every, every Friday night on HBO Max?

• 1:19:41Bill Maher?

  No, not me, but a lot of things they could.

• 1:19:44Speaker 04

  Could they have recreated this conversation? Could AI have come up with us, like, talking about fat kid from Stand By Me and Goo and Frozen Homeless?

• 1:19:50Bill Maher?

  Absolutely, absolutely.

• 1:19:51Speaker 04

  Covering it all?

• 1:19:52Bill Maher?

  No, absolutely not, but could they make Maverick, Top Gun, yeah?

• 1:19:56Speaker 04

  Yeah, maybe, you know?

• 1:19:58Bill Maher?

  They practically did, no, I'm kidding, it's a, I actually liked that movie.

• 1:20:01Speaker 04

  It was a great movie, it was really good, but I understand what you're saying.

• 1:20:04Bill Maher?

  You know, it's, anyway, look, you and I are not the people who are going to say.

• 1:20:10Speaker 04

  I'll just put her out there right now. Yeah, I was just saying, but hey, but Bill, you know what, I wanna thank you, you're one of the few people, those who, I'm saying those who don't live in Los Angeles, Bill still shoots his show on a lot.

• 1:20:24Bill Maher?

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:20:24Speaker 04

  On a Hollywood lot, on a stage.

• 1:20:26Bill Maher?

  Yeah.

• 1:20:27Speaker 04

  And I'm sure people have said, oh, it would be cheaper if we moved to this stage out there, or that you're right there in Hollywood, shooting it, and that's gonna be a part of your budget, and like, you do it, I would, I'm currently not working on a lot, I had to go make a film and. Out of the country, you know, um, it's, uh.

• 1:20:48Bill Maher?

  Where?

• 1:20:49Speaker 04

  I, I went to beautiful country. I went to South Africa. I went to Cape Town. Gorgeous. Really fun.

• 1:20:54Bill Maher?

  How fun it is.

• 1:20:54Speaker 04

  Really, uh, made a great film, uh, worked for, uh, oh, it's coming out on Tubi. I guess I do have something to plug.

• 1:21:01Bill Maher?

  Yes, Talos.

• 1:21:02Speaker 04

  It's called Summer's Last Resort. It's gonna be on Tubi streaming service.

• 1:21:05Bill Maher?

  Summer's Last Resort, good title.

• 1:21:07Speaker 04

  Um.

• 1:21:07Bill Maher?

  Summer's Last Resort. What is it about?

• 1:21:10Speaker 04

  Uh, it's a family movie. I play, uh, a father who is, uh, like, he's like in a household where he has to make believe he's woke all the time 'cause his like mom and, uh.

• 1:21:20Bill Maher?

  Like you in real life.

• 1:21:21Speaker 04

  It's a joke. I'm joking. I'm just joking. Um, no, it's, uh, it's like, uh, it's sort of like, did you ever see the film Tomcats? I'm kidding.

• 1:21:30Bill Maher?

  Now, what is it about?

• 1:21:31Speaker 04

  No, it's great. It's a family movie. It's really fun. I play a stepdad and the teenagers don't want me to marry their mom and it's, it's cute. It's funny. South, Cape Town was gorgeous. You gotta go.

• 1:21:39Bill Maher?

  You know what would help the plot of that movie? If you go on vacation and you get your organs harvested. I'm just saying, throw in something like that and there's just more drama, there's more things to react to.

• 1:21:51Speaker 04

  Right.

• 1:21:51Bill Maher?

  You know, the kids, how, how do the woke react to, uh, they're harvesting our organs?

• 1:21:56Speaker 04

  Right.

• 1:21:56Bill Maher?

  But are they gonna go to the wrong people? You know, things like that. Like, is it gonna, is?

• 1:22:01Speaker 04

  It's good. I'm gonna, I'm gonna remember that.

• 1:22:03Bill Maher?

  I wanna make sure marginalized people get my liver.

• 1:22:07Speaker 04

  I saw a pretty good movie you should watch. It's called Primate. It's about a crazy chimp that goes crazy. It was funny. I watched it last night.

• 1:22:12Bill Maher?

  I watched the trailer last night.

• 1:22:14Speaker 04

  It was, it's on, uh.

• 1:22:15Bill Maher?

  I'm a Peter person. I'm an animal lover. I can't watch any movie where animals are abused.

• 1:22:21Speaker 04

  Oh, I would thought you, I thought you would have invited your dogs in here.

• 1:22:24Bill Maher?

  They died.

• 1:22:25Speaker 04

  All of them?

• 1:22:26Bill Maher?

  Two out of three.

• 1:22:28Speaker 04

  So you got one?

• 1:22:29Bill Maher?

  I got one.

• 1:22:30Speaker 04

  You didn't wanna, you don't want him or her to sit in here?

• 1:22:32Bill Maher?

  That dog is so old and so easily traumatized.

• 1:22:36Speaker 04

  And not replacing it with a puppy, huh?

• 1:22:38Bill Maher?

  Well, I debated that. Like, would it be better to have the very old dog now with a puppy who might annoy the fuck out of it? Or would it reinvigorate it? I think it would just annoy it. I really do. I think the old dog would be like, get the fuck away. No, I don't want to play. I played when I was four, you know, dogs. They only get like four years. You get four years where they run around like crazy energy.

• 1:23:07Speaker 04

  We have big dogs too, and they. They.

• 1:23:10Bill Maher?

  They quickly.

• 1:23:11Speaker 04

  Shorter lives.

• 1:23:12Bill Maher?

  Well, the lives aren't so short, but the life they live at a certain point, they have a very long period where they're very lazy. And there's a lot of sleeping. And if they were in nature, they'd be dead.

• 1:23:26Speaker 04

  Do you get puppies?

• 1:23:28Bill Maher?

  Well, you know, when the last one goes, then I want to get, you know, a few together. I think, I think the thing to do is to get them together so that none.

• 1:23:39Speaker 04

  They don't feel lonely when you're out of town?

• 1:23:40Bill Maher?

  Well, also, none of them feel like, oh, this is my house and some newcomer came. You know, that's what dogs gets them fighting. You know, they have to feel like it's nobody's territory.

• 1:23:51Speaker 04

  Hey, can I throw this out there?

• 1:23:52Bill Maher?

  Yeah.

• 1:23:53Speaker 04

  We, I, I didn't want, I always thought I was allergic to cats. My wife, when we got married, was like, we're getting cats. And I was like, please don't do it, I'm allergic. I love, I'm a cat guy, I'm a cat daddy. You should get some cats. Cats are fun.

• 1:24:08Bill Maher?

  Well, I don't know if you know this, Jerry, but all dogs go to heaven. All cats go to hell.

• 1:24:13Speaker 04

  No, I know you say that.

• 1:24:14Bill Maher?

  I hate cats.

• 1:24:15Speaker 04

  You know what?

• 1:24:15Bill Maher?

  No, I'm kidding, I'm an animal lover, I love all animals. But I don't want cats.

• 1:24:19Speaker 04

  In a lot of ways, you're, you're kind of like a cat.

• 1:24:22Bill Maher?

  I may be like a cat, but that doesn't mean I want, you know, I may be like a man, doesn't mean I want to have sex with a man. Just, I may be like a cat, I don't want to have a cat as a pet. Maybe there's too much cat energy here. Why am I like a cat?

• 1:24:34Speaker 04

  You watch Heat and Rivalry, the Netflix show? Oh, not Netflix, the.

• 1:24:38Bill Maher?

  Why would that make me like a cat?

• 1:24:40Speaker 04

  You talked about having sex with men, I just, I was going off on a tangent now. I'm trying to squeeze in all my Bill Maher time before I, before you cut off the show.

• 1:24:48Bill Maher?

  You're the one who said, I thought you wanted to quit.

• 1:24:50Speaker 04

  No, I could do this, I'm spending the night, you kidding me?

• 1:24:54Speaker 04

  You watch the heated rivalry show?

• 1:24:56Bill Maher?

  No, but I certainly have read about it.

• 1:24:58Speaker 04

  I watch it with my kids.

• 1:24:59Bill Maher?

  The gay hockey players.

• 1:25:00Speaker 04

  It's a hot show, man. I watched it with a couple teenage girls and their friends and they were into it.

• 1:25:04Bill Maher?

  I'm not against it.

• 1:25:05Speaker 04

  They were, uh...

• 1:25:06Bill Maher?

  Why is it so popular, do you think? What's the, what's the, um...

• 1:25:09Speaker 04

  Uh, I think the sex scenes are sexy and graphic.

• 1:25:14Bill Maher?

  This is gay sex.

• 1:25:15Speaker 04

  Gay sex?

• 1:25:16Bill Maher?

  Yeah.

• 1:25:17Speaker 04

  And I know you're doing that, but they don't show penis or penetration, so it's not, it's not hardcore pornography?

• 1:25:27Bill Maher?

  I feel like I have to make no apology for saying I don't like to watch gay sex. And I don't make, what? I don't. It's just, I, I, I, I, the full support of the entire gay community.

• 1:25:39Speaker 04

  A hundred percent, all of us.

• 1:25:40Bill Maher?

  And, and certainly there's lots of gay men out there saying, uh, you know what? Pussy yucky. You know, like, we all like what we like, and I don't, it just not, you know, it's not like it's awful, but I just don't want to watch it. And it doesn't, it doesn't turn me on, obviously, I'm not gay.

• 1:25:57Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:25:58Bill Maher?

  And I'm thrilled that it does for you, and I'm glad there's...

• 1:26:02Bill Maher?

  I'm glad there's things for you, and then there's things they make for me. Like, like Landman. You know why they hate, you know, you know why they hate Landman? Because it's got four hot chicks in it. It's like, how dare you have hot chicks in a show anymore?

• 1:26:16Speaker 04

  Oh, God. Taylor Sheridan was this close to putting me in the next one, and then I went in on that heated rivalry thing, and he was like, hold, hold on a second, hold on a second.

• 1:26:23Bill Maher?

  No, I'm, first of all, I'm gonna get Taylor Sheridan on this show. He should do it already, because I, I've been...

• 1:26:29Speaker 04

  He's a fan, no, you've been talking about, you've been a big supporter.

• 1:26:31Bill Maher?

  I'm a big supporter, and I think it's ridiculous that somebody who, uh, I mean, every once in a while, somebody comes along in TV like that, who like...

• 1:26:40Speaker 04

  Hundred percent.

• 1:26:40Bill Maher?

  Has so many shows, and it's like, remember, uh, David Kelly?

• 1:26:45Speaker 04

  Sure, yeah, David Kelly, LA Law, all of them.

• 1:26:47Bill Maher?

  So many shows, like, how does, where does this guy find the time to write all these shows?

• 1:26:51Speaker 04

  Ryan Murphy does it a lot.

• 1:26:52Bill Maher?

  Who was the guy? Steven J. Cannell in the eighties?

• 1:26:56Speaker 04

  Sure, remember the typewriter?

• 1:26:58Bill Maher?

  It's like every, every detective, whether they're fat or in a wheelchair or whatever they were, Steven J. Cannell was having them solve crimes all over town. It was amazing. And, you know, it was just the era, and of course, we're in a different era, but like, there is some, uh, um, you know, Aaron Sorkin, like, I mean, there are people who just, um...

• 1:27:18Speaker 04

  But Taylor Sheridan's been doing it for a second. That movie, Sicario?

• 1:27:22Bill Maher?

  Yeah.

• 1:27:23Speaker 04

  That's a real movie, man. That is like-

• 1:27:24Bill Maher?

  Oh, and Hell or High- is it-

• 1:27:26Speaker 04

  Yeah, Hell or High Water.

• 1:27:27Bill Maher?

  That's another really good one.

• 1:27:29Speaker 04

  Great.

• 1:27:30Bill Maher?

  No, I mean, some people just can like sit down at the typewriter and just, it just flows- and Stallone's Tulsa King, also quite good.

• 1:27:38Speaker 04

  Yeah, that's Taylor Sheridan. I will tell you, I have heard something about him, and this is positive. This is what I've heard, so I don't know if it's fact or fiction, and please, Mr. Sheridan, if you're upset at this, I'm sorry, but I've heard, unlike-

• 1:27:52Bill Maher?

  You're already-

• 1:27:53Speaker 04

  Unlike other TV people, okay? Unlike other TV people. Other TV people have a script and present it, and the studio goes, "Oh, well, uh, got to do this, and you got to change this, and we need this, and we're trying to get younger women to watch and do this, and you have to, and we don't have the budget for this, and we don't have the budget for that, and you got to cut this out." And so then they, you know, rewrites, and you know, you get different color pages and scripts, and that's why pages have a bunch of different colors. I'm sure that happened in the Bronson Pinchot, Gina Davis sitcom.

• 1:28:23Bill Maher?

  I remember the different color pages, yes, you're right.

• 1:28:25Speaker 04

  But allegedly, and I don't know this for a fact, Taylor Sheridan has a script and goes, "There it is. Make it." And that's why it's so good.

• 1:28:35Bill Maher?

  He is hardly the first one to have that. I mean, that, you're right about-

• 1:28:39Speaker 04

  In television?

• 1:28:40Bill Maher?

  It's HBO's mantra, bro. That's how they got to be HBO, is that they let their people do what they want. I mean, I've been very lucky, because I'm part of that, where you're God and your universe. If they give you a show, you have enough rope to hang yourself if it sucks, but we do not look over your shoulder. That's why they always attracted the top talent.

• 1:29:05Speaker 04

  You were so funny.

• 1:29:06Bill Maher?

  And that was copied by lots of other people. If you want the top talent in this industry-

• 1:29:12Speaker 04

  Right.

• 1:29:13Bill Maher?

  You have to give them that deal. Taylor Sheridan, I'm sure, has that deal, because he is top talent. He is not the first. If you want the really good people, don't fucking tell them what to do, or how to do it. Just trust them. If it fails, HBO has had big misses too. That's okay, you know, no one bats a thousand. But that's how you make good art.

• 1:29:34Speaker 04

  You were so funny. This is gonna show you what a fan I am, but we were watching your end of the year episode of Real Time, and you were like, "Don't know who my bosses are gonna be when we come back, but I love ya, hope you keep us around. This has been a lot of fun." That really made me laugh.

• 1:29:48Bill Maher?

  It's true.

• 1:29:49Speaker 04

  It really made me laugh. It's funny.

• 1:29:51Bill Maher?

  No, I don't know. I still don't.

• 1:29:54Speaker 04

  We miss you when you're not on the air.

• 1:29:56Bill Maher?

  I appreciate that very much.

• 1:29:57Speaker 04

  We really miss it.

• 1:29:58Bill Maher?

  I really do.

• 1:29:59Speaker 04

  When you said stuff on the red carpet and people were like, "Hope you're doing well. Hang in there, Bill." It was so funny.

• 1:30:05Bill Maher?

  Well, that was apropos to our discussion about Hollywood. So much fun to do that whole thing about... And again, there's a practical aspect to what I was saying. Democrats really need to cut loose to celebrities. They're not helping. They don't strike people as normal, cuz they're fucking not. Democrats already have a problem with people thinking that they are not the common sense crowd. And then when they see, you know, the Chapel Rones and the Billie Eilish's of the world, who don't act like normal people. And then whatever they're saying just strikes everybody in America who's a normal person as, "Oh, God, here's more of this stuff where you can't relate to a real life." And of course, there was comedy in there about it.

• 1:30:49Bill Maher?

  It's so easy to, like, show celebrities acting crazy, like giving Kanye a school.

• 1:30:54Speaker 04

  I went to a Kamala Harris rally. My wife and I donated to the campaign.

• 1:31:00Bill Maher?

  Oof.

• 1:31:01Speaker 04

  And Megan Thee Stallion played. And that was pretty... Pretty fucking epic, Bill, if you were there. I mean, it really invigorated, like, excitement, you know?

• 1:31:11Bill Maher?

  It really invigorated the people who are already gonna vote for her anyway. That's who invigorated.

• 1:31:17Speaker 04

  Okay. There is no correct, Bill. There is no correct.

• 1:31:23Bill Maher?

  I mean, yeah. I mean, you can jerk each other off all day long. Kamala Harris lost all seven swing states. I mean, she went 0 for 7 where the election was. I mean, that's not... You have to almost try to fuck up that badly. You know, as I've said many times, they lost a crazy contest against a crazy person. So, you know, you do you. You vote for who you want, you believe what you want. I'm friends with everybody, you know. I love being friends with everybody. I mean, there's very few people who I won't talk to. And again, the people who will not give Taylor Sheridan his due

• 1:32:06Bill Maher?

  are the same people who think that's terrible. Stay in the bubble. Only talk to the people who already agree with you, who see it the way you do. Okay, you do you. You know, I'm very happy positioned where I am. And very happy I can have you here. And also, I mean, I've had Charlie Kirk here.

• 1:32:28Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:32:28Bill Maher?

  I've had, you know, RFK.

• 1:32:31Speaker 04

  Of course.

• 1:32:32Bill Maher?

  Everybody. And famously went to see Trump. And like, I will talk to all of them.

• 1:32:37Speaker 04

  Let me ask you something, because I was watching the Golden Globes, and I was watching you mostly. Just because, I'm not even joking. Because I'm a fan, so I'm like, oh, let's see Bill. And it's a pressure situation. They're calling your name, you're in front of all those people. Do you give a shit whether you win or lose?

• 1:32:55Bill Maher?

  Of course. I mean, you have to be some sort of a liar to say, oh, no, I got all dressed up in a monkey suit and, you know, put on makeup at 3:00 in the afternoon to go out to this thing in this giant traffic jam. I hated every fucking minute of it. I hated all those Emmy award shows I went to, and they would never give it to me, and they never will. And I understand why. That's okay, we don't have to go into that. But, yeah, of course, you want to, because you want, I mean, I had such a good speech, but I knew that.

• 1:33:29Speaker 04

  Give it to us, come on, give us a little bit.

• 1:33:31Bill Maher?

  Oh, I don't remember what it was, but I think the first thing I was gonna say was, I can't believe this woke town gave me an award.

• 1:33:38Speaker 04

  Yeah, that's why they didn't give it to you, I guess.

• 1:33:40Bill Maher?

  Exactly why.

• 1:33:43Bill Maher?

  But, you know, it's, again, I feel like I'm in the Taylor Sheridan category. And there's some other shows and other people like that, that it's, it's just so anti-liberal, in my view, to have this attitude that they seem to have, that you have to just completely conform and get exactly in line of, get back, get back in line. Get back there.

• 1:34:11Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:34:12Bill Maher?

  That's how it strikes us. Like, again. We should actually even be able to accommodate people who are actually conservative, let alone just not exactly the kind of liberal we are. And that's not good enough for them. And I mean, I just, this town, just a lot of the people in this town have a bad attitude. Having said that, I can't walk through a room of anything where I go. I was just at the Clive Davis pre-Grammy party. Without every two feet, people stopping me and saying the kind of nice things you say to me. Like, "Thank God for you, you're the only one who speaks the truth. Thank you for your service," you know.

• 1:34:52Speaker 04

  Bill, we were at a party.

• 1:34:53Bill Maher?

  So, it's like, that's my...

• 1:34:56Speaker 04

  I'm here because I ran into you at a party. I was at that party. There is a guy who was there, and I said hi to you. "Hey, remember Tomcats?" I walked away, this guy grabbed me and went, "You gotta fucking introduce me to Bill Maher. I've gotta, I've got to fucking meet him. I've got to go meet him." And, um...

• 1:35:16Bill Maher?

  And that was John Stamos.

• 1:35:20Bill Maher?

  But that is the party where you...

• 1:35:22Speaker 04

  Bill, Tim, before me, just saying. I got the rebuttal. Word.

• 1:35:27Bill Maher?

  No, no, no. You got the girl.

• 1:35:30Speaker 04

  No, get out of here. There's no getting a girl. No, come on, he's happily, he's got a beautiful wife.

• 1:35:36Bill Maher?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:35:36Speaker 04

  Beautiful, everybody wins. Everybody wins.

• 1:35:39Bill Maher?

  We all, we're all, first of all, we're all a different person in every decade of our life. Wouldn't you agree? With thirty, when you were in your thirties, is that anything like Jerry today?

• 1:35:52Speaker 04

  Absolutely not, no.

• 1:35:52Bill Maher?

  Okay.

• 1:35:53Speaker 04

  Completely different person.

• 1:35:54Bill Maher?

  Right, so, you know, that's it. You can't in any way, rationally, compete against yourself or anybody else at a different era in your life. And, you know, are women in their twenties fun? Yeah, they're fun, they're also such more of a pain in the ass usually.

• 1:36:14Speaker 04

  Tell me how, how so? I don't, like...

• 1:36:16Bill Maher?

  In their twenties? Well, they're dumber, like we all are. We are too.

• 1:36:21Speaker 04

  They have wisdom in other areas, like...

• 1:36:24Bill Maher?

  Like what? Not sex, they're not better at sex. Sex is like anything with the 10,000 hours thing. You, it takes a while to get good at it.

• 1:36:35Speaker 04

  Okay. Maybe better at social media, like they understand.

• 1:36:38Bill Maher?

  Yeah, social media, who gives a fuck?

• 1:36:40Speaker 04

  Well, I don't know, I mean like.

• 1:36:42Bill Maher?

  But a woman 31 versus a woman 21 in bed.

• 1:36:49Speaker 04

  These are things I don't, I don't know about. I'm married to.

• 1:36:52Bill Maher?

  I know, but for 20 years.

• 1:36:54Speaker 04

  21 and not 30.

• 1:36:55Bill Maher?

  I know, but, but you had a life before that.

• 1:36:59Speaker 04

  Yes, it was so long ago, I don't remember, I mean.

• 1:37:02Bill Maher?

  Well, take my word for it.

• 1:37:06Bill Maher?

  21 and 31 are very different. They are. And if ever go to, and if ever go to bed with a woman 41, I'll give you a report on that.

• 1:37:18Bill Maher?

  But I wouldn't count on it. No, I'm kidding, I'm sure it'll happen. Well, I'm not sure of anything.

• 1:37:24Speaker 04

  One more hit and then let me hit the road.

• 1:37:25Bill Maher?

  All right.

• 1:37:26Speaker 04

  I gotta go, I'm gonna go take my parents to Cantor's.

• 1:37:30Bill Maher?

  Really?

• 1:37:31Speaker 04

  Yeah, I take them to the deli here, my parents are old, they're welcome canes, it's, it's tough, just give me one for the road.

• 1:37:38Bill Maher?

  How is Cantor's doing?

• 1:37:40Speaker 04

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