Bill Maher - Adam Carolla Show 3/21/22

if you're not into cars or kids sports tournaments you should probably skip this episode because it's all these guys can talk about adam corolla yeah get it on bill maher in studio i just did his show club random with bill maher first episode premieres today not my episode or yesterday i should say with the bill shatner who i'm i adore uh good to see you bill maher now will the audience understand that that was sarcasm when the announcer my audience will understand they will understand yes i'm not into kids in cars okay i i know you're not into cars because i was watching your show last weekend on friday and one of the panelists said she's into f1 and you're like whatever you're into nascar and she's like f1 in nascar is they're different well it'd be like saying london philharmonic and ted nugent they're both just music yeah i get it uh well i think what i said to her was why do you enjoy watching traffic and that would still be my uh response to both of those things i think but i'm not sure what f1 is uh it's just the highest of the food chain oh really air and senna see the doctor what's better about it it's like saying you know what's why is a ferrari better than an oldsmobile like because it's just that much more advanced but aren't nascar drivers driving the best cars they're driving the best cars within the regulations that they they put in place oh see look at us ironically talking about cars all right off to my daughter's soccer game and then we'll wrap it up exactly so uh congratulations on uh on the show i uh uh it was fun just sitting down with you and your uh club random and letting the hair hang down a little yeah you know again was it necessary that i do this no uh but i'm having more fun than i've had in a while uh not that i don't love my real show because i love that the most but um there is something about just you know first of all i can't be drinking and getting high when i'm doing real time i mean talking to important people sure but like when you come over oh wait that came out wrong uh and also not everything is politics and for too long i've been going out to dinner with people and they've been saying you should do a podcast because you know you you're interesting on all these other topics and we never hear you talk about it because the show is too political and i'm like okay fine i give in i'll do it. and they were right it is fun and it is good to once in a while for just an hour or two a week talk about things that aren't political because political first of all you're cutting off like 90 percent of the country who doesn't know things right they don't know things you have to know things to watch real time you have to know i mean we had one guest i love this kid he does adam will lead he you know tick tock videos that has more followers than i'll ever have and but you know i said last week on the show uh uh my real time show we we talked about the aclu and nato and he's like i don't know what those things are i'm like exactly right and and that's th and so the show is for people who don't know what the aclu i mean you can know also what those things are and enjoy the show i think but you know it's just it's a way to uh i think expand the audience so for you uh on that note well can we talk about you and how you came up and you know how you evolved and how you started with comedy i i really i've known you for a long time but i don't know a ton about your backstory yeah please i'd love to talk about me all right well let's talk about you you grew up in new york no i grew up in new jersey across the river my father uh was in radio news back in the days when every radio station had news at the top of the hour you know i listened to wabc and new york cousin brucie if people remember that from back east and dan ingram and all those great uh djs that was my jam when i was 12 years old was to listen to that all day but even they even the rock and roll station had news at the top of the hour even kids we were forced to listen at the top of the hour to five minutes of news that i'm sure is just like from jupiter to any kid listening today but that's who we were and my father did that not on abc he did it on other radio stations in the new york area he was on something called the mutual broadcasting system which became defunct in the mid 70s and then he was out of work and then i had to turn to selling drugs but that's uh we're skipping ahead in the story well can i drill down on one aspect of that you have a kind of a precision with your comedy and with when you host not when you interviewed me i think you're faked off your ass but normally you bring an air of professionalism and kind of precision you know you're not one of those comedians that's kind of hanging and doing audience work and where are you from no and all that that you put on a suit and you have your jokes and there's a and in real times this ways too there's a certain precision to it is that something you picked up from your dad um maybe i don't know about that he certainly was precise you had to be uh i remember he had this collection of stop watches because this is a this is an era we're talking about when no wonder he was kind of tense when he got home and needed three martinis you had to do this five-minute broadcast on the news live without rehearsal and you had no time to plan out how it was going to fit into the five minutes you had to do that on the fly you would rip the news off the wire so you would see what the actual news was you take that off like a checker tape and then you would assemble this and have to read it almost as you wrote it and have it come in exactly at the five minute mark that's that's a tough job no wonder he was tense and that's why you needed a stopwatch because you couldn't go over and you couldn't go under i i can't imagine doing that so maybe that is where i got it from maybe it's in my dna but you're right i am super precise especially in my stand-up i mean i just did a special that'll be on hbo in april um i just taped it in miami and you know they were like wow you you don't uh mess around here because i gave the bullet points for the teleprompter to the guy and he was like okay you know this is not where you're from and what else i hate comics to stand up there and go what else i don't want to waste their time i know what else yeah because i worked it out and i want the show to be dense i wanted to i don't want to waste people's time i want to shmush into the hour the best possible thoughts and jokes following those thoughts that i could come up with over the last four years that's what a stand-up special is to me that's not how everybody works just the way in music you know some people like it raw some people like fish and the grateful dead and they like jam bands that come on for a half hour improvising i don't but i like the rolling stones they're raw i like the beatles a little more because they're finished every note and you know there are studio tricks good if it sounds good who gives a [ __ ] if their studio tricks those tricks are working on me yeah no i i agree what drives me nuts are the comedians when you know you go to the comedy store and you're gonna do a 15 or 20 minute set or something and there's some guy up in front of you ostensibly there to work the set out and he's like uh what else hey where are you from right that's not your set that's you just standing on stage right and you shouldn't be paying for that there are comics who work that way at least back in the day i remember and it was like joan rivers used to do something called joan rivers workshop that was different than when you saw joan rivers in concert when she would be doing her real show joan rivers workshop was okay for uh you know it's like the uh the annex of a department store it's less money that you're paying you're you're paying something i imagine but it's her workshop so we're not going to see the polished finished product and that's okay as long as you're honest about that but don't charge me money and then be working out your [ __ ] i mean that's what we we i started out i'm sure you did too in the in the comedy clubs the show they call the showcase clubs because yes you were showcasing you were working out your [ __ ] you were you know they used to say you need a place to be bad well we fulfilled that we were bad and that's why it was they didn't pay us and why people would you know feel especially they felt free to heckle we're uh when you grew up were you funny was this a was there could you put a sort of turn it into a commodity where you class clown where you're popping off and cracking wise because there's a part of me that sees you is a very skilled comedian and then another part of me that sees you is a serious person so i don't know how you reacted in in the environment of school well i think that's a good assessment because i think i try to do a kind of comedy that's based mostly on serious topics i'm not i was never the uh seinfeldian you know he does it brilliantly i always thought he was a genius because he could take some topic that was not very serious and make it interesting and not insulting to the most intelligent person in the world you know socks and trivial matters like that he would see something in them i could never do that i'd like to take big meaty nutritiously intellectually nutritious topics and try to find the funny in them but they themselves if you took out the jokes it's not terribly funny to talk about some of the things politics and and even even matters of you know we talk about sex and drugs and rock and roll and i talk about everything in my act but they're kind of like big topics so yes but as a kid if you're asking i was never the clown type i did want to be a comedian when i was very young i knew i was going to do this when i was less than 10 years old really i was a very shy kid and i of course didn't have the kind of confidence that kids have today because they're raised wrong in their yes to a self-esteem movement right so i never breathed the word of that because i would i was afraid i would be made fun of oh really you want to be a comedian good luck with that but that's what was in my mind all those years excuse me is that i am going to be a comedian um so that's what was going on in my head and in the classroom i would say i was not the i would say i was trying more to be the class comedian not the class clown i wasn't the guy throwing spit balls i would try to say and sometimes did say you know things that i you know again the bar is low in school you're bored you want any distraction so you know you got a good uh captive audience but if i could say something that made the teacher laugh that was a big victory yeah it's interesting class clown versus class comedian yes i never really thought about that yes i was there were clowns and i was not one of them so were you a pretty serious student um i was a great student excuse me i was um yeah straight a's uh very afraid of failing not because my parents would beat me [Music] i guess they just didn't want to be disappointing to them or i don't know i just was very afraid of not doing well in school i think in high school i had a perfect attendance record i don't think i missed one day of high school how nerdy is that um well i mean you know it's interesting so there's like comedians that are just sort of creative types and then all the baggage that comes along with it they're disorganized they're not that focused you know we all know people and people say to me who's the funniest guy you know i go you don't know his name right he can't get his i always uh i know you don't like car analogies but uh i would say that it's not how much horsepower your engine has it's how much can you get to the rear wheels and we all know people that are kind of thousand horsepower brains but they can never get out of their own way they can't get it to the rear wheels they can't get it to the pavement i think most comedians know other comedians that are super talented but just not getting it to the to the rear wheels and guys like you and guys like jimmy kimmel they're really funny people who also approach it like a studious a student and bring that ethic to it yeah i mean again it's very analogous to music there are people who just do it kind of raw and then there are people who spend six months in the studio making hotel california because they want every note to be right and they're both good you can find great value and they both can work i happen to be the latter type yes you're right i'm a worker um i do like precision i do like i love sometimes people say why do you still do stand-up i love the tinkering i love the uh idea of oh i moved this joke two jokes earlier and it works twice as good you know or i changed one word that i love it's to me that's like building the ship in the bottle you know those people who build a little ship inside of a bottle and it's like what the [ __ ] is that well i mean all of life is just killing time till you die and to me that's just how elegantly for yourself you can do that and that that to me is you know stand up is kind of like i guess you at this point you could call it a hobby because i don't have to do it but i do it because i love it and i it's it's that building the ship and the bottle thing i just like tinkering and i'm working with it in my little workshop and then of course i go out and take it and do it in front of people but it all it wouldn't come across as good to people unless i was in my little workshop uh you know or in the basement at my house you know sanding things plotting to kill my family like the stepfather uh but then not speaking of family he said your dad was kind of an intense guy or a wealth guy he was tense when he got home from work because that was a tense job he really wasn't a tense guy but the job made him that way i mean he was much more easy going except you know he chose that as a profession and i can see why that was a kind of a job that required a few martinis after you got off of course it was also the era it was the mad men era that's what people did is they had three drinks and then drove home right which is what he did every night yeah in a car with no air bags or a headrest and probably no seat belts right and half in the bag on the on the uh garden state parkway or the uh palisades parkway coming back from midtown manhattan to our suburban manse in new jersey i say man's small house i mean when i see it now it's like you cannot believe how small these but people were smaller and they just needed less and you know i mean the house that i grew up in they bought on the gi bill for i think 24 000 which is about you know like my car probably cost three times as much yeah yeah i grew up the same way house uh i grew up in cost ten thousand dollars i mean my room that i grew up in was like half the size of this room we're in right now yeah well you're speaking of uh kids these days and how you grew up and how i grew up um i worry that kids don't have enough down time they're staring at something they're playing some you know this this edict of you got to get them involved in everything you got to sign them up for every sport you have to get them involved in every club they have to learn five languages they have over schedule you have to learn to code on their computer and stuff like that it's like i learned a lot from being bored as a kid from having serious down time nothing to do absolutely go make your own fun go outside i think something they call that over scheduled and the kids are you know you like you say you have piano lessons on tuesday and then karate lessons and you know mom is always suffering you from one of these activities to the next and it's horrible i think it's horrible the way they they do that to kids and it i think it it's stultifying to their imagination yes ira my whole childhood what i remember is coming home from school which by the way again something that you would get arrested for literally now letting a child walk home alone from school a child alone they find that to be just an abomination whereas i thought it was fantastic get your ass to school get it home and then i would fly into the house fly upstairs change into my play clothes and then fly out the door again without saying one word to my mother and play and in my house my town we had something called the six o'clock whistle oh gosh it's like thornton wilder our town uh and a whistle would blow at six o'clock and it was like oh okay because dinner was at six got to get my ass home but until then i was out just like doing what the [ __ ] ever i don't know you know you go over some other kid's house you'd play you'd collect acorns or [ __ ] throw dirt at each other or you know play army there was a stream at one apartment part of the town you can go in and like make a damn or i don't know i you know you just would play outside and and it was it was a a great stimulation for your imagination because as you said you had to make something out of nothing it wasn't like there was some structured thing and people telling you what to do and you were learning a specific yeah do i know how to play piano today and maybe i would if i didn't if i didn't have an upbringing like this so what i don't miss i wouldn't have never been a great piano player but i wouldn't be the person i am i don't think yeah speaking of uh kids and going out and playing you know we have so much obesity with kids now and i heard you uh talking with uh ben shapiro about it and this notion of as it pertained to covid we had this great opportunity to really go oh we can talk about obesity now we can talk about exercise we can talk about outdoors all the healthy [ __ ] you just kind of spoke of and uh we swept it right under the carpet we tried to shame everyone who wanted to talk about it those people are the highest risk or amongst the highest risk in the group kids you know it's it's insane what we're doing to them and yet you bring it up in your pariah i have been a pariah many times because i do bring it up um and it's the ultimate third rail it's it's it's such an interesting topic for future historians when they study this era and they will find out of all the sensitive topics and there are so many topics that should be and are more sensitive this is the one that gets the most reaction and you absolutely can't go near and you know i did a editorial about it before kofit just it was really about it was i think when the democrats were first trying to find their candidate in 2020 so there was like i mean at least a dozen of them were running and they would have their debates this is 2019. and uh of course the big topic on in every debate was healthcare and how we're going to pay for health care blah blah blah and i did an editorial saying i don't care whose plan you adopt it can be bernie sanders plan it can be elizabeth warren's it can be the man in the moons it's not going to work because the people are not participating in their own health and they are never asked to and then you know did all the facts about obesity and uh and james corden then attacked me i thought fairly viciously personally about this and you know it to me it was such a cowardly thing to do because if he had taken the opposite approach and said you know bill is right about this i'm someone who has struggled with this but he's right unless we get a handle on this unless unless we look in the mirror on this unless we're realistic with ourselves because we're through the looking glass on this where we don't you know fat shaming how dare actually we fit shame we say to people eat something who are not overweight yeah and we go after adele for losing 40 pounds literally and you know i really think if he had taken a different tack he could have saved a lot of people whereas now i mean i'm i've said this recently on some show i really think the people who will not talk about this in the media you have blood on your hands because you are not helping people by normalizing something that is you know factually the number one killer in america it was before covid it was killing people slowly and with covet of course it killed them quickly we know these these are facts 78 of the people who were hospitalized or died from covid were obese i mean i i don't know why this is such a controversial subject obviously under i understand people don't want to be confronted with their failures i don't i have many failures i said in that piece that james gordon was attacking that there was a time in my life when i drank too much and i understood that and people said to me sometimes you know maybe you should go a little less heavy on the drinking and i would say to them yeah you know what you're right i should and then of course i wouldn't but i didn't say how dare you drunk shame me right you know there's a there's a big difference between back at somebody and saying how dare you even mention this and saying okay i got it you know what you don't have to push in my face and i wasn't being uh mean in my edit i've never been mean i don't think i've never told a cheap fat joke i mean i did in the in the past when we all did when it was okay to do that right but there was no cheap jokes in there there was no you know we're going to make fun of you it's not about making fun i mean i i feel like this is something that if you're a friend don't you do the truthful thing that makes someone a healthier person well i'm i won't i'm always trying to kind of figure out the motivation of a james corden in that particular case like is it to just get applause from people who are on his side of the scale so to speak is it is it and and then also with so many so much of the pushback the kind of things you say sometimes the kind of things i say i'm i'm like i still don't know what the point is in this i mean you i don't know what's in a person's head either but i what i do know is that it was easy it's easy to be oh this mean man bill this mean guy is saying mean things and here i am coming to your aid and i've heard people say this many times when this comes up you know people struggle with this i've had that come back at me a number of times to which i say of course they struggle everything is struggle life is a struggle but look at people 50 years ago we looked like a completely different species people were not obese like they are now do you think cake wasn't delicious in 1969 of course it was people struggle people struggle with it and they always have but they didn't just throw up their hands and say it's a struggle how could i possibly resist eating too much food and eating the wrong food well you can and yes we have problems that are uh should be addressed like food deserts like places where people can't even get decent food but then deal with that and yes it's very hard to eat well if you are not uh well off or at least middle class there are plenty of poor people who do not have the opportunity to get good food but i will i would say this about that no one ever needs to have soda all right with your food and that's a lot of what the obesity comes from is soda so you know you could save money and also help your health by not having soda and everyone could do that you know we could be the can-do society on this instead of the throw up your hands and oh my gosh what what i can't do anything about this well you can't yes there are things that we should do as a society to help uh but you know when michelle obama tried to make this an issue they attacked her incredibly viciously and she was i mean this was a first lady project right it should not have even been controversial and it was mostly about as you were bringing up kids let's get the kids in better shape who could be against that well it turned out a lot of people yeah it's really and you brought up 1969 you know did they have cake in 1969 you know go back and look at the movie woodstock and see what those people look like that's what i'm saying what a 22 year old looked like in 19 or look at the crowd that's looking up at the moon launch right there there's no obese people in the crowd well you know you think back to you know grade school junior high there was one fat kid that was probably assigned to each class you know and that was it and if there if there was one there was a one fat kid and one kid with a leg that was too short that had the extra heel added onto his shoe for some reason and the fat kid wasn't that fat what we thought of i remember in that piece i did we showed uh the picture from like a hundred years ago of the fat man in the circus he looks just like a normal guy now yeah and that was the fat guy and the thing about what we're going through now with the the epidemic and all the deaths and everything is that the science doesn't change what our ideal of what is obese has changed where but the science hasn't and in the science even if you're moderately obese the chance of hospitalization was greatly increased like four or five times and i'm not i'm talking about like 30 or 40 pounds overweight i'm not talking about you know sometimes you see people who are hundreds of pounds overweight that just didn't even exist well speaking of science i was watching real time last week and you had a professor or an expert not sure exactly what his title was uh and nuclear energy oh he was the former secretary of energy under obama against moniz yeah yeah kind of remind me the quaker oats guy a little yes white white-haired professorial correct yes uh but i i pull a quick clip of it because i i am vexed by nuclear energy as is maybe you are in that i am for it because i'm for clean energy right i don't know what happened to it or what the plan was we'll play the the clip of the uh dr ernest yes you are for a nuclear using nuclear power uh yes look right today nuclear power supplies 20 of our of our electricity if we will if we were to eliminate that uh i don't know how blue we are for it i mean california as we speak is decommissioning diablo canyon yes and i and i wrote an article uh in the la times uh against that right um without success of course uh but uh but we need that and we also need to build a new generation of nuclear plants this is carbon free uh it's it's been safe and uh and we don't have a lot of options especially when wind and solar are going to grow but they are intermittent and we need also a strong base load of carbon-free power that's what nuclear gives us and uh right now there's never been more innovation in this space than we see today and nuclear is splitting atoms right whereas fusion all right we got it the i feel like this is almost like obesity it's like well why why aren't we talking about this and the answer is it's not popular to talk about it i think the problem here the underlying problem is something called win-win americans got it in their heads that everything has to be a win-win and that's not the way life works the way life works especially with weighty matters like this is least bad that should become the saying instead of win-win there's very few win-wins out there what there are out there are least bad options does anyone want nuclear no of course not because three mile island chernobyl fukushima when it goes bad it goes bad really bad and that's not good but it's the least bad option we either slowly kill ourselves what we're doing now with fossil fuels or we i mean i wrestled with this nuclear one for a long time i don't think i was always on the page because yes it's very scary what can happen when it goes bad um the radiation from fukushima is probably in the water when i go to hawaii and new year's eve and swim there but look there's just no great perfect option and just build them so they don't [ __ ] break yeah you know just just don't just don't ever let it happen again and i think they probably can get there and even if they can't it's it's i'm sorry it's the least bad option yeah i i agree that's my feeling on many of these matters like what is the alternative and the alternative is well they'll say you know renewables wind and solar but if we're not there yet then we need to build a bridge to sort of buy us time to get us there every country that has given up nuclear and state like california has had to revert to coal because they make because there was a shortfall they got ahead of themselves germany did this let's get rid of the nuclear great because nuclear is bad and the echo warriors hate it and i consider myself an echo warrior but then there was a shortfall and at the end of the day they can't let the lights go out people want their [ __ ] phones and they want their tvs and they want their air conditioners and they want the lights to stay on and so they wound up having to use the thing that they were trying to not use to begin with well i know you had your uh ongoing saga with the solar panel shed yes that you've uh referenced many times now i've screamed about this for a million years because i've done a lot of building projects and i've always told everyone you're living in santa monica in a rent control apartment fine go buy some property and try to pull a permit and try to build something on your own property and then tell me how much you love the government because it's easy to do it from where you're at but go deal with them california has got to get its arms around this issue i mean it just does what first of all we know there's been an exodus from this state and that's partly because of high taxes and it's partly because fire season is all year round but it's also because people can't [ __ ] do anything as you're talking about um i just read that the cost of building a single unit for the homeless has now risen to 837 000 i just don't think people understand the level of graft that is built into the system the level of corruption and that's what i was getting at when i made that crusade about my solar i mean first of all i just did want to get it cooked up but can you imagine the level of corruption the level of bureaucracy that i was ranting and raving about this on the air for over a year and they still couldn't get it done i have a picture of 11 people at my house who finally showed 11 people to turn on a light bulb yeah basically i mean first of all i had to build a shed to house the thing which is about the size of that this is the the box that apparently the solar comes into i had to build its own home which probably could house the homeless people could live in that shed it's a beautiful shed that houses a little box right uh that took forever to all the it has to be 55 feet from the curb it has to this it has to that i mean it used to come in on a pole they probably could have done it just on that but no had to have its own shed and then all the people who had to come out and see it look i can't get into the ins and outs i i don't want to it was too painful a memory but all the regulations that i mean it's it's it's a i know it's orwellian or kafka-esque or both of them it was just strange very strange what the the hoops that you had to jump through to do something that the state was advising you to do solar power was something i thought i was being a good citizen trying to hook up it's stifling years before your shed debacle i i mean it's been uh it's been 15 years i i got a house been more than 15 years up in the hollywood hills and i was like i'm going to put some solar panels up and uh good thank you you're welcome this is what we'd like our citizens to do and there's a regulation that it doesn't it's not in any other city or state where the master shutoff switch for the solar needs to be on the other side of the gate and they're explaining to you that everywhere else it can just be on the panel in the box or whatever the fire department could come shut off the master switch in an emergency but in la county it's got to be outside on the curb which would have meant trenching 200 feet and laying conduit down and doing something and it would have added another 50 grand of that and i was like then [ __ ] it right then [ __ ] it is is what so many people say about so many things out here and eventually what are they going to say is then [ __ ] it to the democratic party this is an achilles heel to this party that they have got to come to terms with i mean they couldn't build a railroad that they tried from la to san francisco same thing with the housing the homeless kind of thing it just the cost i think per mile roasted something like 200 million dollars per mile whereas in france they did it for like 13 million dollars per mile pretty much the same railroad and france is not known as a country without unions right or regulations or socialism and somehow they did it for so much less people have got to understand there are just too many people with their hand out there are too many people who are unnecessary in this equation and and this is kind of like beyond politics or it should be but it's going to get hung on and deservedly so on the on the democrats because they run this state it's not like the republicans are great on this either but they don't run the state right now the democrats do quick break to talk about jb weld world's strongest bond the brand diy-ers and pros have trusted for over 50 years use their epoxies super glues putty sticks wraps for projects big and small on practically any surface metal wood plastics glass ceramics keep it in your kitchen drawer toolbox with your craft supplies and of course your garage as well also the proud owner of herculiner the original diy truck bed liner if you're looking for the world's strongest truck bed liner herculiner has you covered so i've been a fan of these guys for a million years i've always used their stuff and now they've expanded into every form of adhesive and herculiners well it's available at jbweld.com home depot lowe's walmart autozone advanced auto parts o'reilly amazon michaels and more proudly made in the usa it's jb well yeah what do you think about the mayoral race coming up um you have anybody you like well i interviewed karen bass right she's one of the leading i mean i like her um i haven't really gotten into those local politics too much the other guy what's his name um the guy who runs the beverly i mean uh yeah whatever farmers at the grove yeah rick caruso yeah caruso yeah i met him recently at a dinner party he seemed like a nice guy i don't know you know i don't really get that much into local politics i don't know how much it really is going to affect me um i mean i'm sure it does and i'm sure i'd be a better citizen if i did but you know i'm kind of busy with like trying to absorb all the national news for my real job and what is the schedule of your real job i know you found film on fridays yeah i mean i work my ass off during the week you know i mean monday is a very heavy work load uh writing night because that's the day i try to put together the editorial that i do at the end of the show which is about eight minutes long and probably takes me 20 hours to put together and so that's a big heavy writing night tuesday i rewrite it and start working on the issues we do a lot of new rules i mean we probably i probably look at like a hundred new rules to come up with five right i mean that's the process in comedy i mean again like we were talking about the beginning of your interview here today it depends on your method but that's my method is let's be thorough and let's get the best product out to the audience and that takes a lot of time i never go out during the week you know thursday is my cram night because the show is friday um so you know it's just like um the when i asked hbo if i could do the podcast i told them look this will take zero time away from my real job i don't want to ever take time away i said this is just two hours i'm not preparing for it at all as you could see i can attest to that zero prep i'm just going to be drunk off my ass talking to a good friend or someone who i'm meeting for the first time and uh this is what i would be seeing like wednesday's the hump day so that's when we tape right podcast um and i take a two hour break normally i'm just doing it in front of a camera now with with in you know people who i the audience i think might be interested in hearing me talk to um but i i need to work all those hours on the week to to make real time the show i want it to be because it's on you know a premium network that you pay for and i think that people expect and should get the best possible product i can put out based on a week full of work i would not want to do it any other way the um so for you i know you've uh you don't have kids you're not married famously don't uh don't and like it that way which i get um my parents you know i didn't really want to have kids either because i don't i felt like my my parents didn't want their kids you know and i sort of went yeah i guess that's how it worked really yeah i think i think you felt that uh yeah i mean well i i certainly knew it i don't i don't know i don't know the difference between feeling it knowing it but it seemed abundantly that's tough parent it is it is it is but uh but i don't know what influenced you or did anything influence you i mean where how how was your relationship with your parents great i mean i was very i'm very lucky person because i had great parents and did they have they were they around to see the kind of success you've had my father died just before he saw me do the tonight show which you know was world that's a big deal yes it was sort of the you know the baccalaureate you are graduated and now you are officially in show business and you don't have to be a you know a tradesman um although you certainly can as many people have done a few tonight shows and then fall off the board but he die i mean i got politically incorrect started in 93 and he died the year before so it's a shame because he was a funny living room comedian who worked in news and for my life i really made his resume into a profession you know i took the news i took his funny living room style and made it into a profession so i think he would have been very gratified to see me do what i do um but that didn't happen but i know he's watching from heaven i'm kidding i mean it would be great if that then could that be possible yes but it's so ridiculous um i always like it when they show cartoons after somebody dies and they're doing in heaven what they did in life you know like bob hope has a golf club and it's like really yeah that's all that's rounds can you play that's all heaven is the thing you're doing in life and then you take it up there and it's like you're just shooting a great you know par game every day well i said to someone the other day on this subject i said no i don't i don't believe in heaven and i said well but then where do you go you know like where you know right and i just said look what you what you have is all the thoughts you've left in the minds of all the people you you interacted with while you were here you're never you're never dead abe lincoln is dead he doesn't need to be in heaven i i know who abe lincoln is yeah you know what i mean like that's that was my take on it that's a great take i've never heard anyone put it that way that's actually kind of brilliant i'm going to uh kill you and steal that yeah like why do you have to be alive you're live in my head if you go first preferably but what i'm saying is like every great or we're not a family member your dog you know your first dog lucky that's just you have it's in your head that's your memory that's why they're live as long as you're alive because they're in your head yeah which is why you should do good things and say funny things and right do that and be wise and try to pass on right it's almost i mean life itself is just a shame because like you you perfect yourself and then die right you know it's like i'm 66 you know i'm kind of i think at the top of my game and everything because i'm still you know healthy um yeah that was me knocking wood but you know would it be better if i was 36 and this good yeah because then i'd have all these years ahead to live out as this top of game entity whereas of course i mean now maybe i'll be able to do this until i'm 86 um but you know it also would be nice to do it when you were people could still look at you because at a certain point they won't be able to right you know i mean at certain point people they get put out to pasture in television because they just kind of like you you know you just look at them and it's like you're just reminded that they're not young anymore they just look shitty you know i think larry king johnny carson the people they just you know kind of like oh you know you've been out in the sun too much right they yeah you start melting at a certain point you start melting inside so so your dad look he saw your hit on carson and that's pretty damn good but yeah he was proud um i mean you know and they were great when i told them i was going into comedy because they could have been like a lot of parents would have been and said oh come on do something realistic and they were and of course i made that easy for them because i wasn't asking for money i was always a very independent kid too much so as a as a kid it drove my father nuts um i didn't share as much as they would want me to i kept i as someone once said i packed a tight suitcase so it didn't hurt them at all when i said i'm going into comedy because it wasn't like and i need money to live off of right but i also didn't say i'm selling pot for a living i just left it unsaid it was a don't ask don't tell policy we're not going to ask how you're living uh and you're not going to tell us and it's good because we don't have the money to give it to you anyway this is after the defunct of the mutual broadcasting system so there wasn't a lot of money coming in um and that was fine but they certainly could have been as many parents are uh discouraging of something that seemed like such a pie in the sky dream was your mom then was around long enough to see many of the yes absolutely she she was around till 2007 so i mean she saw all of politically incorrect and the first like six years of or maybe three or four years of real time um but of course you know moms or moms they don't really it doesn't really ever get into their heads who you are um i remember once i think i've told this story before but it always amuses me i was staying at the uh i forget the hotel in washington the mayflower so one of the big hotels and i said to her she always used to ask me what what was the hotel like when i was on the road and they said they gave me the presidential suite and she said why and i said mom you know i'm kind of a big shot now. and she said oh yeah i just remember when i was holding your little hand and that's always like my memory of my is and i can't think everybody's mother is kind of that way it's like that's what's and i remember your little hand so just don't [ __ ] get out of line you know it's weird there's some guys i can picture as a little kid like not me you ever seen like you see bill barr and you go um i can picture him as a nine-year-old the former attorney general yeah oh yeah i can i picture him as a kid i could see what he looked like as a kid the fat kid yeah he looks kind of like a kid you're kind of now yeah 67 or whatever whatever he is he's got the look of a little kid i i can't picture uh bill maher no i had a crew cut i had white hair like you know like what the kid they would call whitey you know very blond um crew cut very nervous you know i had a pit in my stomach most of my childhood really yeah i mean going to school i was shorter than most of the kids uh you know thank god i sprang up at least to five eight uh which is about average maybe a little where where does your confidence come from now because you do seem very confident sure but it took a long time i mean i was painfully shy as a kid could not really uh ever like approach anybody and you know in even in my 20s and so forth i mean like going up to a girl i was always still trying to make friends with guys who could talk to girls right i think it came from success i think one reason people like to become famous is because it eliminates the need to introduce yourself it's you know i mean your opening line is thank you very much right that's a great advantage in life if you're a shy person but of course it's just years and years and just you know you you become more familiar with what could happen if i go up to somebody and they don't uh respond as i would want them to nothing nothing will happen right i'll move on to the next person and two seconds later i don't have to be thinking about it but there's a great amount of anxiety and when i was a child i feared so much being ostracized because sometimes i was in school kids are awful kids need to be civilized kids need to be taught to be moral they're feral that's what the book the lord of the flies is about kids are horrible and they don't care they don't even know they're being horrible now they just do it and i was not a popular kid there was a kid who was ostracized more than me but some days they decided it was me it was mostly him but i was always worried that i was the next one and sometimes i was and childhood was i was never meant to be a child i didn't like other children and i was so glad when it was over yeah i know and then that when we were growing up the whole idea was to pretend like you're older you know if you're a guy you'd smoke if you're a woman you'd stuff your bra you know like this whole attempt at being older and now there's this this delayed adolescence that goes well into the 40s now well when i was a kid we admired people who were older i wanted to be johnny carson and james bond they were 40. and they were cool and i couldn't wait to be them kids today they want to be the tick-tock [ __ ] who's their age right and somebody 40 is like oh my god you know ancient and it's like no that's when you're cool you're in charge you you understand life finally you're attractive to women you got your [ __ ] together you have your money you know everything about it was better and i'm not sure that's what goes on in the minds of kids today so you don't want kids obviously but i think that bus has sailed and no i mean of all the things in life and of course we all evolve uh each decade i always say you're kind of a different person your character doesn't change but like your goals change and what's important to your life changes sometimes the people in your life change the one thing for me that has been steady as a rock is kids hated them when i was one don't want them now didn't want them in you know 30s 40s 50s that has never changed i mean i don't people think i hate i don't hate kids i just don't want to be around them i don't want to interact them in any way with them in any way especially now when they're such brats and they're so entitled and they have such a sense of being invited into the conversation when they shouldn't be no i i think we talked about this when you were at my house this idea that you know you could just sit down with the adults uninvited into the conversation i would never have dreamed of doing that and and and that they got a vote i was always amazed about like you know you go hey you want to go do this let me ask my kid you know right even donny osmond i remember talking to him years ago and i was like you want to do x y or z and he's like i i gotta ask my my son right and i'm like no one asked me [ __ ] no i was just told to get out of the way sometimes when people were going somewhere and but it's but this is this is interesting and uh i don't know if this will ring true will ring true for you or not i didn't initially want kids because my parents didn't really want their kids and i kids were pain in the ass because you know if i ever said to my mom can i get a ride to teddy lewis's house and van nuys it'd be like oh god oh jesus christ you know it's everything was like oh you're ruining our lives you know that's so i thought kids kids are a burden but i had tons of friends because i didn't interact with my family that much i spent a lot of time with my friends and i became very reliant and very close to my young friends so my version of an 11 year old is much different than your version of an 11 year old the 11 year olds were [ __ ] with you my 11 year olds were saving my life i said i was eating at their house i was going with them if they went dirt bike riding or camping or something like that so maybe my desire to have kids is not based on my family because your family was closer with you than my family was with me so logic would dictate oh bill respects his dad and he loved his family and blah blah blah he should want to pass that along or have that same experience but yours may be based on kids being so shitty to you it may be um also i just never had the same interest that they did i i thought they were immature because they were [ __ ] kids like i was never into cartoons even as a kid i was a snob when i was five i did not want to watch cartoons i watched film shows i watched superman i watched the three stooges uh i watched i don't know what else was on that was film but it had to be film live action none of this cartoon [ __ ] to this day people make fun of me in a you know a gentle way but they'll ask me about cartoons and i'm like oh uh daffy duck he's uh a duck okay and uh i kind of that's all i know you know they'll name cartoons and i can't tell you exactly who they are elmer fudd oh he's uh he's got a rifle you know i just know what from osmosis what i see from i never watched these shows i never wanted to uh and i always i always i usually had like one friend one friend except when i got to college first two years i like had no friends you ever have no friends in your life no it sucks yeah it really does and i and i wasn't and our family my parents were great but we didn't talk like about serious stuff because again i was kind of closed off so like never talked about dating or any of that kind of stuff when i finally got a girlfriend a junior year in high school like i was mortified to even bring it up i never said to my parents oh i have a girlfriend isn't that great or asked them for a ride i would just hitchhike to her house never once brought them into it it was too embarrassing for me to even bring that up to my own parents so i think a lot of it was just being sort of isolated self-isolated um and i don't know if that's where it comes from but i'm sure glad it's over because i have a lot of great friends now here's a delicate question do you so you he's when you were a civilian so to speak not famous you didn't have many friends right do you feel like then these friends that you have now as good as the relationship may be maybe based in some part on your celebrity no i mean you know you can smell that a mile away who wants to be friends with you for that that's not nobody i would count as a true realtor no i don't i don't mean i don't but but to attract them do you know you know what i'm saying i don't mean just because you're famous or have money no i think i became famous because i learned how to or evolved into somebody who was a person that people would might want to spend an hour with in their living room on the television and that's the same reason why i have friends it's because you're a person people want to spend some time with because you evolved yourself in some way to be a person who is empathetic and amusing and fun to hang out with i mean you can't underestimate fun be a fun guy i mean that's one reason i wanted to do the podcast to show that side of me that is just you know i mean of all the qualities i have i would put just being a party animal who knows how to have fun right at the top of the list did um i know you know you've said this famously and and i've said it myself a million times or people go oh you've changed you know like politically you've changed and i've said i'm still for all the stuff i've ever been for it's just but i'm not down with the transgendered swimmer kicking everyone's ass in the pool like i'm for gay marriage i'm for pot i'm for whatever whatever we want to talk about prison reform all the stuff that i've always been but i'm not down with the crazy [ __ ] me too i mean same thing you know and and i keep trying to make this point five years ago no one was talking about defunding the police no one was talking about that it wasn't me who changed i'm just reacting to crazy [ __ ] goofy [ __ ] that's going on now i mean you talk about the transgender swimmer i was reading about the director of the movie power of the dog jane campion got into trouble because she said something like she was accepting an award and serena and venus williams were there and she said you two are such marvels but you know to be honest you know you didn't have to play against the boys i did and of course then cue the apology tour and the usual suspects who find this intolerable and i'm like what is the big problem first of all it looked like serena and venus williams were laughing at it um serena has admitted that when she played a man she was shocked at how hard it was she said i hit shots that would have been sure winners against the women and he got to them easily and she was just making a case that the woke people should have liked because what she was basically saying was i'm competing in a in a place that was always a boys club there's only been one i think woman who ever won best director yeah hurt locker right catherine bigelow right um so it was a valid point to make she wasn't demeaning them by saying that and it's like jesus christ you always have to stay exactly within the one true opinion you can't color outside the lines for two seconds without getting shot down it's that kind of stuff and oh that's concern that's not conservative that's just me reacting to something i think is goofy i think you're being goofy and i'm gonna call it out like i always have and if you don't like it [ __ ] you kiss my ass which is also what i've always believed yeah well always been my philosophy i mean a lot when the covet craziness was going down and everyone was saying to me to shut up about everything i was talking about and i was like i'm a comedian so i get to say what i want to say and i've always kind of felt that way but boy you know it's it's weird i wasn't hearing anything out of the comedians during this period per se and i was like should aren't they the tip of the spear for this kind of stuff right because when it comes and i think you and i really are on the same page with this and two of the only voices out there who were pushing back against covet idiocy i mean covet itself is fading but the idiocy is not i still see people with masks young people outside the people the science well there's no science for that you [ __ ] yeah you're not going to get it outside and you're young and the thing is mild now and it's [ __ ] over almost you know are there is there going to be another variant of course there's always going to be another variant the spanish flu is still here it's just the way this [ __ ] works but the insanity of it that was because when when people are scared when you induce this mass hysteria which is what we did yes uh and you scare people fear boy i mean it's not just political it's medical is even worse because medically you know what i mean there's no nothing more basic than i want to live and if people think that this is going to kill them and of course it has killed some people but again that's also a very unsophisticated way to look at it that coveted killed well first of all they didn't make any uh distinction often between died with covert or died from covid for a long time i think for a whole year uh you could die from something if you had coveted even a year before and they listed it as a covenant death right so i'm not saying it wasn't a serious bug that was going around of course it was and it should be respected and we should have compassion for the people who suffered from it but there's a lot of bad information and my overarching theme has always been medical science we're at the beginning of understanding the human body i should be able to make my own decisions about how i want to treat this yeah i saw you mixing it up with max brooks on your show um and i agree also you know first off we do this thing where it's like joe rogan and aaron rodgers these nut jobs out there i think joe rogan and aaron rodgers are doing okay that's one guy just won the mvp of the league for the third like what if they're fit that's what i was saying you know why that's what i was saying to max is that we that i mean that's what started i didn't even tend to get into that subject friday night but we did because i said there are two types of people who don't want the vaccine and there's one type who i don't have a lot of respect for because i think it's insane it's a conspiracy theory that there's a chip in it or just because it's what the democrats do which is a dumb reason not to get a vaccine and if you are not in good health if you are obese you should get the vaccine i implore you to get the vaccine but people like aaron rodgers and kyrie irving and djokovic they don't need the vaccine i understand that completely when you are in perfect health and these are athletes their body is their life they're very very very careful about what they put into their body because they want to play as long as they can because every year they play they're making tens and tens of millions of dollars so they have the ultimate motivation to keep that body in tip-top shape so of course they don't need the vaccine so the argument that he was putting forward that well what about protecting other people that argument makes no sense anymore now that we know the vaccine does not protect people from getting it right it does not protect people from giving it or stop people from giving it it just protects you if you have the vaccine so don't tell me that i have to be part of this this oh what about protecting other people protect yourself you get the vaccine get the vaccine then you'll be protected because you were never protected from me anyway whether i had the vaccine or not uh last subject bill um i see you you know you recently i think we're uh on with ben shapiro um you go places you have conversations and uh you know people might think you and ben are diametrically opposed in every fashion on every subject but i've listened to your conversation with them and there's a fair bit of common ground that you guys have and if not a chance to air out opinions on this side and on on that side and i've seen you on your show say to like adam shift and stuff like go you know you're spreading your message on cnn and something i've said which is if you're fouchy and you want to get people vaccinated and you're explaining that there's these fox viewers who aren't getting it vaccinated then go on fox and tell them to get vaccinated you're on msnbc preaching to the choir everyone everyone is watching uh everyone who's watching rachel maddow's show is vaccinated so why go on rachel maddow's show and talk about getting vaccinated why don't you go on hannity and tell him to get vaccinated and you are you do that you you go everywhere and and do everything what you know i think when you were telling adam schiff go on you know hannity and go tell him this stuff right he said i've been invited many times right but he won't go on so how do we cure that and why won't he go on and what's going on i don't know if we can cure it i don't know if we can cure a lot that elsus in that realm the tribalism problem that we have in this country but to me the bigger reason to do that is not even to come to a meeting of the minds on issues which we never will i mean i was very honest with ben shapiro i said to him look the republican party does not believe in the emergency of climate change and they do not believe i think any more in democracy i mean 147 of them in congress voted to not certify that election which they know was a legitimate election as long as those two things are what the republican party is built on to me they're not even savable the democrats have a lot of problems with but to me they're still savable and that's what i'm trying to do although we need both parties we need at least two parties probably need ten um but that's not why i went on ben shapiro i didn't i mean that came up and i want him to be aware of how i feel about that honestly but my bigger issue is stop talking about politics all the time i can be friends with ben shapiro and never agree with this on any of this stuff we have to get to that place in this country because you're never going to bring people around everybody on the internet thinks you can own the other side you can own them and destroy them or that you're going to convince them by arguing with them on facebook or some [ __ ] like that you're not going to convince people you're not going to bring them over let it go is what we used to do just talk about a zillion other things that you can talk about connect on a wavelength that is not political people are different except that accept their differences it seems especially on the left they have this need to make everybody conform to that one true opinion and it's just never going to happen and you just have to accept that well the problem with the one true opinion is it as we were alluded to it moves in morphs so fast that we're having to cheer on sure males beating females in a swimming pool in order to stay up with the with the party and it's like then you don't you're not into that now you're out right on the outs right if you were a a liberal feminist and went into a coma ten years ago and just woke up and read that story about the the swimmer you'd think wait that's not liberal and that's not feminism i when i went into the coma ten years ago i was we were all happy about title ix and right women being able to compete you know and now you're telling me that this person can come in here and i mean how many people i think it was something like when he competed as a man he was way back in the pack he was like four sixty four sixty seven somewhere in there and now he's number one among the women and of course the women cannot compete against someone i mean even if they're transitioned i mean you're born with muscle mass and i mean i don't know all the science of it but i've read it and it's very convincing and it's very obvious that this person look yeah look if i've heard it said that you know if he died or she died the world's number one female swimmer and somebody dug up her bones in a hundred years the bones would be the bones of a male like the archaeologist right that's a that's a male human right and it it it does seem to sometimes happen that the politics as you say it morphs so much that it comes around to be the exact opposite of what it was um i was reading something that andrew sullivan was saying today or maybe he was quoting somebody saying that it looks like the woke or trying to eradicate liberalism i mean racially we see the same thing i mean again i'm an old school liberal who believed in a color-blind society that that was the goal that was what we were trying to get to where we don't see race whereas it seems like what the woke one is to see it always and in everything that that is the overriding the i mean is not the the essence of a lot of what they're talking about is to always see it and and i i again it's just it's just the reverse yeah it feels it always feels i've talked to dr drew about this i know it's been on your show as well upcoming episode but uh i always say it feels gross you know to go like as a woman as a woman of color as a lesbian woman of color like that to preface every [ __ ] statement i'd like to get out of this parking ticket as a woman as a woman of color whatever is a gay man it's like it's 2022 do your [ __ ] job right or don't but let's not factor this into everything right and of course i mean i'm sure there are people out there saying well that's easy for you as a white man adam uh and maybe it was a white man who worked next to illegals on a construction site digging ditches right out of high school and also i mean there's a myriad of factors that go into a person's life that gives you advantage or disadvantage i mean i don't think a a young good-looking black man going off to college in 2022 is at a tremendous disadvantage you know compared to a dweeby ugly untalented white kid well i i've always said uh this i said every guy i grew up with would date a woman of any ethnicity over an unattractive woman right they would be right they would you've been there i'm sure i've seen you at a few parties right where i every guy i know would be with a beautiful black woman over a unattractive white woman first and foremost any any night of the week i don't know any guy who wouldn't do it chris i mean that that is a little more uh to use the word of the day problematic because i mean slaveholders had sex with their slaves you know i mean you can have i mean a relationship yeah of course i understand what you mean i'm just saying that when you cross that sexual boundary it can become something different but maybe you know another way to approach that is chris rock used to have a famous bit about how uh he lived on the block with like all celebrities and then a dentist who was a white guy who was a dentist you know like you only had to be a dentist right and there is absolute truth in that in the history of america and he was saying like even as rich as i am like no white guy would trade places with me now i that may have been i'm sure it was more true in the past i don't know if it was even true completely when he said it then but it's definitely not true now yeah it's just definitely not true that no white person would trade places i mean i think john mcwater has made the same case you know it just they just that just that's just an antiquated way of thinking now there are certainly a lot of racist and racist adjacent kind of white people in america still who would never do that and trey but i think the vast majority of people don't feel that way anymore and if someone is like a rich good-looking celebrity and they happen to be black i think there's a lot of white people out there certainly most of the people under 40 who would say oh i'd be happy to trade places with that person i'm rich in white not swamp places with this rock just so you could go on other people's podcasts and talk about joseph said oh yeah all right the uh podcast is called club random with bill maher it's uh premiered yesterday now first guest bill shatner who i just did a show with and he's awesome i had dinner with him i did a show with him there's no more impressive 91 year old human being on the planet no what a badass or really a lot of you don't have to put the age in there i mean he's just yeah what a what a career and uh you know what a great way of looking at life to be able to like say you know what i'm 90. i think i'll go into space right because i wouldn't go now right and i'm not close to 90. yeah i want to ask you uh quickly we're talking about obesity and that kind of stuff what's your regimen i mean you're always in good shape you eat well you exercise but what what do you do i always like to serve breakfast lunch and dinner okay well first of all don't have all of them you know this three meals a day thing is just something someone pulled right out of their ass right no it's there's no scientific literature for that it's just something people started to do they could have said four meals a day some people have for me breakfast is the most important meal of the day you know invented by kellogg right exactly as the food pyramid was right put on by the dairy industry um which you know gets in back into the covet argument like you want me to just listen to everything you say as if you've never been wrong or never been corrupt about medical matters it's just not going to happen with me but i regret so many of the years of my life when i sort of forced having three meals a day because it was just in my head so what i do um i'm not really hungry the first hour of the day so good then i have the one cup of coffee i have about an hour in you shouldn't have coffee before that because you know you're when you first wake up um you don't really need it your body is wide awake you get that light in your eye and you okay so um that takes care about the next hour or so so i have my first meal which is a shake that i make with a kind of raw egg in it and yogurt and a lot of good stuff um about two three hours into the day and then if i get hungry and of course i get up pretty late so i get up at like 11 so i have that around two or three if i get hungry around six or seven you know nuts nuts is a great snack you know it just there's no fat there it's mostly fat fat does not make you fat it's a big misnomer carbs make you fat um that'll kill my appetite for another hour or two and then i'll have my second meal that of the day just two meals around nine and then what do you have for dinner you know it could be any anything that's like more of a traditional meal i mean uh i'm not a vegetarian people think i am um i don't think you should eat a whole lot of meat but you know i'll have fish chicken uh anything it's more i'm more interested that the food that i'm eating is clean then it's vegetarian i'd rather have uh you know a organic piece of meat than lettuce you're not doing the carbs for dinner no i i'm not doing the carbs at all right i mean very rare i mean carb to me is like uh you know maybe every couple of weeks i'm at a restaurant and i don't want to be an [ __ ] and you know i will have a hamburger bun or something but um i went on a you know a real strict no-carb diet for a while um and then i just stayed on it basically i was like oh you know once you get used to it it's not that hard i can have pasta that's made out of chickpeas i can have pasta that's made out of spinach you know i don't ever really need to have rice bread you know a doctor once said to me if i had three words to tell someone about health it would be don't eat bread yeah um i know it's it's so it's it's very simple it's you know that's that's the part that's so vexing and frustrating when you're trying to yeah the politicians get the message out would you please and like when you try to tell people about this first of all they'll be like you're a comedian why are you dispensing medical advice well don't listen to me then i'm somebody asked me who i respect and i'm giving my answer do do you but they look at you like you're like you're from mars because a lot of these concepts are just very two meals a day what are you crazy bread bread's the most healthy thing in the world we okay you know do some research i can't tell you maybe you'll find something different but that's how that's how i approach it and you know as a friend of mine says abs are made in the kitchen yeah you know i mean yeah do i exercise i do but i also think people can overdo that i don't think you need to like do weight training three times a week no but i you know i oh i do think that i i've known a few uh beautiful people men and women who you know they eat whatever they want they never work out they blah blah blah and they always look good in their bathing suit there's a few of those people out there yes there's two types of great bodies one is made in the gym and one is made by nature right and you cannot ever approximate the gym one with the nature one there no it's just a type a body type that you were born with and uh it's magnificent right i agree and you should definitely want to try to have sex with them yes but i found those people to be amongst the laziest people i've ever met because they don't have to they don't have that thing for you right it's a 24 7 i mean i would argue that the diet bleeds right into the work ethic it's the same reason why you know great-looking pretty boy guys don't have a great rap to women because they don't need one right their opening line is high uh speaking of high uh club random with bill maher watch our episode i think you'll catch on oh i loved it uh i had a good time and i'll come back any time you need me first one was shatner we got me quentin tarantino coming up judd apatow of world-class directors and talkers and thinkers and writers and of course real time that's friday's you all know on hbo we watch live dates coming up sugarland texas coming up and tulsa oklahoma coming up and you just go to the website buildmar.com you go down curl.com i'm doing live shows all over the place too and until next time it's adam carla for bill maher saying mahalo because when when people are scared when you induce this mass hysteria which is what we did yes uh and you scare people fear boy i mean it's not just political it's medical is even worse because medically you know what i mean nothing more basic than i want to live

Channel: Adam Carolla

Views: 566,206

Keywords: Adam Carolla, Stand-Up, comedy, live, funny, jimmy kimmel, loveline, man show, corolla, adam, improv, joke, adam carolla show, cnn, fox news, interview, celebrity news, bill maher, one on one, bill maher adam carolla, democrat, republican

Id: 0G2XXNdTXmQ

Length: 84min 28sec (5068 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 21 2022

Reddit Comments

[u/Wiserputa52]

I always find Bill a lot less pompous and much more likable when he’s on someone else’s show. Same deal here. Neither of them seems to get how Covid is different from other illnesses but… Aside from that I found them both pretty likable and neither of them pissed me off during this interview

[u/trevorp210]

I actually listened to this podcast and love it when people from different sides have a conversation. I thought Reddit would love Maher and the fact the consensus is that he is basically a Republican is terrifying to me. Between the far right and the far left I am dreading the future. I really try to not just embrace ignorance by not watching/reading any news or keeping up on current events but looking more and more like best option.

[u/SadPatient28]

Bill doesn't sound very "healthy", wheezing and hacking into the mic. hmmm....

[u/Nolubrication]

I'm with DAG. Adam is an insufferable douchebag.

[u/southtampacane]

I’m done with Bill for the most part because of his vaccine ignorance but I have to say his face is really punchable.

[u/Rokstr81]

By following Bill's logic on vaccines, none of them apparently work. You can't prove a negative that you would have gotten sick if not for the vaccine.

[u/hawking061]

I just can’t get behind this whole fat shaming obesity shit I think it’s a wrong direction I think it’s an issue a very big issue it is the issue but it’s just not the way to go about it

[u/trevrichards]

So is this just an exclusively right wing media tour? Shapiro, Carolla. First podcast guest Dave Rubin? It's a who's-who of fuckin' morons.