[FULL] Real Time With Bill Maher 10/28/22 | HBO Bill Maher October .28, 2022

[Applause] thank you very much [Music] thank you ladies and gentlemen thank you very much thank you listen to that I think I know why you're excited the midterm elections are upon us they are 11 days away I guess I was wrong not excited about that but they are well I don't blame you for being a little apathetic I mean wow what an election this is the Republicans are putting up a slate of election deniers and Oaths and crackpots and Crooks and and the Democrats uh have a guy who recently died of a stroke so not die we're we're not making fun but if you saw that debate in Pennsylvania The Dr Oz against John fetterman uh he did recently have a stroke uh fetterman and he is still a little shaky uh that debate oh a neurologists call that condition Herschel Walker yeah there's some boots in this election oh Herschel Walker another one I cannot keep up with this guy another woman came forward to say that he paid for an abortion this guy has provided more abortions than planned parenthood one of the popular costumes now for kids in Georgia is that the kids go out with a ghost costume and a sign that says Herschel paid for this foreign [Applause] hopefully still is a big issue in the election abortion nothing this crowd is nothing gets this run okay well up there in America I'm telling you it's a big issue it came up in the uh fetterman debate Dr Oz set about abortion it should be something is decided between a doctor a woman and local political leaders well this is going to be new for women [Laughter] the mayor's office yeah listen my period um yes I'll hold but the big news and uh the uh Tech World Elon Musk has now taken over Twitter and probably will put Trump back on it uh Trump said yesterday he said Twitter now he says is insane hands but that's also what he said when Kanye bought a school so oh Kanye Kanye is a hot water boy he has lost his deals now with Adidas Balenciaga Gap Foot Locker and yesterday his mic dropped him wow he's he's seen his net worth plummet to a fraction of what it was the bright side he doesn't have to worry about you know all those gold diggers [Music] he does have a school the dunder Academy and if you have a child enrolled there a be be aware it may have closed and be what were you thinking this is it's a very different kind of school it's it's open only on Jewish holidays [Applause] and their motto is a mind is a terrible thing [Laughter] and uh finally I thought this was interesting I should bring your attention this week especially with all the tech news the Pope uh made news he came out he said he is urging priests and nuns to delete all the porn off their phones I didn't I didn't know they even had phones or porn on them and the priest said not a problem just leave us grinder okay we've got a great show we have Joey and Ted you've all know uh Ferrari but first up you all know this guy he is the award-winning filmmaker and author whose new book Cinema speculation is out on November 1st one of our great cinemasts Quentin Tarantino [Applause] all right look at that I hadn't seen them thanks a lot yeah I've said these before but it is amazing when a director is treated like a star the director is traditionally the person behind the camera people don't even know them you are a star well I'm not to be too uh inside here but actually I hadn't noticed that the audience was uh kind of staggered like this it makes it feel like a nightclub when you look out it has a nightclub kind of feel for me this is a legacy of what happened during covert when we had the socially distant so we couldn't have as many people and the audience got much better because we turned out we just got rid of the groaners yeah right [Applause] but uh before we lose all our time here because you and I can get to talking yeah uh let's get to the book because I feel like that you were destined to write this book you know I think you you know one of the reasons why you're a great filmmaker is because you're a great student to film I mean you more than anybody we've always known that about you you just love it and the book is so funny because you know you really were raised by movies I didn't even realize this about you that you went when you were seven years old yeah to a very adult movies yeah yeah you know it's talked about in the book at some point I realized that I was seeing movies and again we're talking about the 70s so we're talking about you know like starting from 68 or whatever um so the explosion of what they called new Hollywood well that's me getting used to going to the movies you know as that's the new Hollywood are the movies to me and uh at some point I did notice that I was seeing more I was seeing different movies than the other kids were allowed to see yeah and you know it was also interesting well I say yeah I saw I saw Mass three times in 1907 I thought the match was was my favorite movie that year um but mash and the French Connection and The Godfather like a couple of times adult movies it deliverance and the Wild Bunch wow you know um you know but now okay but just to use it as an example like okay so okay so there's the male sodomy rape scene in Deliverance all right so now I'm I'm watching Deliverance as a kid and gotten a hair in his mouth yeah and that's I'm singing 173 so I'm about nine I think right okay and so I'm watching Deliverance now do I know he's sticking his dick up Ned Beatty's ass no I don't know that all right uh did I know he was being sodomized in a a a a a sodomized rape no I didn't know what sodomy or what rape was at that time I knew he was being humiliated and he was being humiliated I knew he was being subjugated even though I didn't know what that word meant because every boy on the playground has been humiliated to some degree not like that not like that but we understand the Dynamics okay you know because we didn't I didn't understand the sexual part no I did see him be humiliated in the group I'm not sure what the lesson is well I get the less I guess the lesson is is like especially when you take kids to see until there's going to be some stuff that goes over their head and some stuff you want to go over the head but there was a whole lot of stuff that even though I might not technically have known exactly what the characters were talking about I got suggested and I got the gist by how the audience responded they get oh whatever it was I don't care it made you who you are what I took away is that I mean I feel like the Epiphany lesson is so clear in that book and it comes in the very first chapter when you talk about going to a Jim Brown movie now yeah I don't know if people of a certain age don't know who Jim Brown is but Jim Brown was the original athlete turn star yeah before that I think Mickey Mantle never became a movie style right yeah it was always a joke when they put a guy like right and then it became much more of a common thing when you see okay Jim Brown and he was I mean I wanted to be Jim Brown too when he was in 100 Rifles yeah yeah Raquel Welch and she's oh there it is oh that's said oh look at that that's the poster oh yeah where she's hugging him from behind like that and they both have a look on their face like yeah we just did it and we did it well no they're sexy in that movie oh and he's very excited okay so you saw a Jim Brown movie yeah when you were how old were you probably like 10 I was 72 so I I'm like uh uh eight eight years old yeah you're in this all black theater okay and it's a double feature when they had double feet Yes and the first movie is is kind of a messaging movie yeah it's called the bus is coming but the bus is coming the crowd hated it hated it right they're literally yelling out suck my dick yeah right yeah okay well it was the you know uh I was a fairly sophisticated kid so I've seen the adults kind of you know uh have different responses you know um uh to movies before and I've even seen an audience turn against an adult audience turn against the movie but I'd never seen the level of contempt that this black audience felt towards the bust is coming I mean they just which is a black move yes they just proceeded to just yell insults at the characters on screen because like it was that's not the movie we came to see so we only walked in so uh so we had 45 minutes ago so for the whole 45 minutes they just yelled at the people on screen and the first time I ever heard the expression suck my dick all right it was like some guy in the audience yelling it to somebody in the on on screen and at first I'm a little trepidatious about it all in a rape suck my hair this is quite an education you're getting well I'm a little trepidatious but all at a certain point they were just so funny I just started like uncontrollably giggling and then like you know and you know and the guy who's taking me to see it is this football player who's dating my mom so he's trying to get in good with me and he takes me in an all black theater and he sees me like being comfortable he's like hey you a cool kid Q you know and he's like Academy with this huge hand and uh uh uh and so uh so I yell out something at the screen kind of look at him to make sure it's okay he's like you know he's like happy that I'm having a good time it's like suck my dick hey characters but actually the funniest one definitely had the benefit of being memorable all right uh but the funniest one is at the end of the movie The Bus which I think was supposed to be a metaphor this 12 year old kids waiting for the bus the whole film all right uh uh at the end the bus finally shows up and then the kid it runs down the street screaming the title of the movie the bus is coming the bus is coming the bus is coming and somebody in the theater just says yeah well get on it and go yourself [Applause] I just want to say uh if you're promoting this book on The Today Show don't tell these stories [Laughter] but you hit for the house but then the Jim Brown movie comes on which is a kick-ass action movie I'm sure where he's cool and and the crowd loves it and you say you have never been the same yeah well your whole career yeah you've been trying to recreate that experience from 1972. it was a magnificent experience especially being the you know the son of a of a single mother you know and then and even at that point uh she was living with two of her best friends so it's like I'm a house with three young women uh so being taken by a football player like a Rams player I do a Jim Brown movie uh in 1972 on a Saturday night in an all-black theater except for me uh that was probably the most masculine male experience I had ever had in my life I was like going camping this is it yeah this is this is way better than fishing all right uh this is this is cool I mean but but you know but there is an aspect I do say that it's like you know either as a movie consumer going to movies and being part of an audience or creating movies for an audience that that goal of a gym Brown movie in 1972 on a Saturday night is always what I'm trying to achieve and to me it also read like it's a it's important to make I love a meaningful movie I can't stand one that isn't yeah usually sometimes something to be just silly and I can enjoy but mostly I want to get into something yeah but don't forget we're entertainers absolutely that to me was the lesson there the first one just wasn't entertaining and if you don't entertain people it doesn't matter how good the message is then you're just preaching and we're bored absolutely and the second one well it's entertaining and you certainly if nothing else have and you've been much else have been energy [Applause] and I think a bunch of satisfied customers out there thank you very much and I just want to ask finally now that we see so many movies in the home and you have these experiences that were so transformative when you went to a theater yeah uh I'm guessing you're like a lot of the directors who are not digging this this new way we absorb movies where we can turn it off in two minutes yeah you've got to give a director time to to put the arrow back before he fires the shot you know it was it was even to such a degree you know I haven't liked a whole lot of the I mean I'm not that's not a blanket same I haven't seen that much all right but I haven't liked a lot of the new stuff that's come out in the last couple of years but again I haven't seen that much so it doesn't mean anything um but like for instance I had a film that I was kind of interested in seeing and I got the digital thing for it and so I invited about like six people to come over and watch it with me and so uh so uh it was like six of us sitting in a really cool little home theater and we had it on screen and it looked pretty decent uh now I ended up not liking the movie all right uh but that first 30 minutes having six other people in the room and we're all watching it and it's not like it's a good movie that I like and now I'm introducing it to you that that experience I'm used to but no we were all we were an open book it was a you know but I felt their eyeballs I felt when people laughed I also started feeling when they started losing started losing the thread in the movie but I ended up even though I didn't care for the movie I ended up having a really good time because we were part of an audience we were communal experience yeah all right keep making movies I know we go through this every time we see each other we keep talking don't quit all right I'll see you later thank you my friend it's a great book too all right let's meet our panel she is the chair of the editorial board and you a U.S editor at large of the financial times and author of anthro vision a new way to see in business and life Jillian tet is back with us and he is the historian and best-selling author of sapiens I've read it twice whose new book for kids is called Unstoppable us how humans took over the world Yuval Harare is with us great to have you here good to be here well I have two people here now who are really not Americans who I call the lucky ones because you know we are uh about to have an election here in this country same here I'm not sure who is luckier wow I'm not sure being from Britain is great these days either okay but I I think I can win this contest because we we are at a place here where the Republicans are about to elect a slate of almost all election deniers that's an amazing fact considering that January 6th was less than two years ago and at that time even the Republicans almost all of them condemned what Trump did now some of them voted for it in Congress but there was a lot of just in that time we've seen somehow Trump and his cohorts changed the entire Republican party to people who don't believe that Biden legitimately was elected president and the January 6 hearings we had them all year there were nine of them they laid out all the facts meticulously by Republicans turned out didn't change anybody's mind what I'm asking about is have our brains been rewired mostly by technology to where we really can't absorb information anymore and nobody I could sit here tonight and say the election is in 11 days you've got to get out there and vote and yes I will say that it won't change anybody's Minds it won't change anything people are going to do what they've already decided they're going to do and what they all see on their own phones based on their own algorithms well I'm going to leave it to you Val to give the academic aspect of this but if you look at some of the polling data recently there's two things that's amazing Reuters ipsos poll came out and did a poll about three weeks ago which shows that 40 of American voters feared violence and intimidation around voting in the midterms 40 that was even before we had um the Pelosi attack yesterday and the other thing is that if you look at what's happened in terms of attitude between the two parties to the other party 72 percent of Republicans and something similar around Democrats now think the other people in the other party not the party but the people in the other party are dishonest that they are essentially lacking in morals they're bad people and that is twice the proportion of six years ago so we've really gone into a kind of tribalism which is getting hardwired into the way that people are seeing politics and this cell phone technology is adding to it I mean you looked at this in your book sapiens haven't you in the future books yeah and I I think what we can all agree on is that something is broken in information system we have the best information technology in history and yet people cannot no longer hold the conversation can no longer agree on the most basic facts like who won the last elections so something is definitely broken in the information system we are not sure what it is it's not necessarily the phones themselves but you know people should maybe go on an information diet that we are so careful they're not going Joe I mean isn't that what you call data ISM when we can't resist I I think that's I think that's actually been the case throughout history with technology humans cannot resist technology you talk in sapiens about just farming which I would call the first technology and you say maybe humans would have been much happier remaining nomadic you know and I won't go through all the reasons why you say that and I certainly don't want to be foraging for food tonight uh it is Friday but I mean I know or take something more recent like the cotton gin we were ready to give up slavery in this country and a machine came along that made it much more profitable and they went let's go back to slavery I I just think humans cannot resist when the technology comes along and the phone is just the most recent example of that and the most virulent because I do think it is rewiring brains I don't know if it's the technology itself but the fact that so many people I cannot imagine reading a book and these are not they're not stupid don't tell him that you know everything is rewiring our brains just talking here and people listening to us the brain is constantly changing so yes we have to be very very careful about what we say especially in public like what we say here the words are like seeds that go into the brains of millions of people maybe so we should be careful about what seeds we are sowing if we sow seeds of hatred it will bring violence but also people need to be careful about what they take in the same way they're very careful about food that you have the diets and you have all these warnings on food like you have the list of This is 40 fat and 20 sugar we need this also like on a YouTube video Like This is 40 greed twenty percent hate if you want now to thank you one very important thing about technology it's very dangerous to think that technology is like Unstoppable that it's it's not up to us it's always up to us you can always make changes about how we can't roll the clock back and get it up in the 20th century you could use the technology of electricity and radio and television to build the Soviet Union a totalitarian dictatorship or you could use the same technology to build a liberal democracy it's the same in the 21st century [Applause] but I I actually think this actually I'm clearly addicted I brought it on set but you know these are addictive okay this technology it's designed to be addictive deliberately designed but it also does something else much more subtle it really plays into what you're talking about in terms of polarization which is that this has created what I call gen P gen playlist and by that I mean that when we were growing up if you wanted to listen to music you had to accept somebody else's preset package so like a vinyl record or you switched on the radio and someone else decided what was playing when today nobody under the age of 30 would accept that everyone wants playlists it's like listening to music when you want how you want it's the ultimate customization pick a mix culture and we're extrapolating that onto consumer culture our coffee choices I mean you go to Starbucks you want to order coffee you've got like 20 choices you have it with media you listen to you basically read what you want you have your friends you have your work you might go into work if you feel like it not if you don't feel like it that's played into the whole working from home thing but also it plays into our politics because we all think we live in our version of The Matrix where we can pick issues whenever we want and we can basically just focus on one thing at a time and then change our minds you know the idea of having old-fashioned things called parties is just so 20th century it's like literally a vinyl record for politics and I think that's playing into this sense of you know tribalism the sense of you know capricious unpredictable birth of energy that should then die down again it means that politics are becoming and again when you point out all these things we could do but people don't yes the labels on food say what the is in it and then people eat it oh it has fat and sugar and they go I can't eat this that's what they pull off the shelf so what and you know people could ignore the phone they don't they they could choose to go on a media diet but they're not going to we saw in the paper this week only something like 26 of 193 countries who signed on to do things about the environment have done anything we can't resist that either the convenience that is brought To Us by things that pollute is I've said this to the audience of many times like if you could tomorrow give up the TV remote and have it cure global warming would you do it well it's easy to clap it's not just of course the responsibility of individuals this is why we have governments this is why we have institutions this is why we have regulations to help us with the things that yes it's very difficult to do it individually um partly because it was designed to be difficult you know you have some of the smartest people in the world uh basically hacking our own weaknesses and using it against us behind this device you know some of the smartest people in the world they learned how to use this in order to get into it some people very upset today that Elon Musk took over Twitter and brought his sink with him um they happen to be an Elon Musk fan but what do you think about that is that a good idea that a billionaire take over Twitter because billionaires certainly own every other media Outlet I mean he's now officially immediate Baron um personally I have a lot of admiration for a lot of the Innovation that Elon Musk has brought to the world he has done some incredible things the problem with him is that he's becoming increasingly Godlike in the way he looks at problems right now and assumes that he can solve them and he is capricious and he's unelected and when I look at what he's done in Ukraine with something like starlink which is an incredible technology you know he explained what he's done well stalik basically is his little terminal that gives people internet on the move without having to have these cell towers which get hit by missiles very easily so in the early weeks of the Ukrainian War the Russian invasion he spread starlings across the country he donated some others were bought by you ukrainians and they basically meant that the soldiers and civilians had internet throughout the war which was amazing I mean incredible that was good and Tesla that was a good thing and relatable Rockets good thing but then bad guy then wait for it then in the last month or two he began to basically say first of all it wasn't clear who's going to pay for them and then he began to switch them off in some of the really important areas but they're on don't know he didn't do that uh actually I've been in touch with the ukrainians recently and yes in areas the the starlings were switched off and it's still unclear what's going to happen that's not what I read I read that he talked about it a little bit and then there were some what is tweeted is not always what he actually does right well he well like like a lot of people especially of the younger Generations they just tweet whatever comes into their mind I don't get that but that's that's how people are they're much more transparent than they used to be they the Privacy is almost something to be avoided well the issue is teaching and testing and constantly interesting ideas and that's a great way to hack a computer code it's not so great to try and do foreign I would just say this about Elon Musk first of all Twitter uh well we'll get into that do we really want to piss off the geniuses I mean considering that this week we learned once again that we're not going to solve the environment ourselves we're not going to do it by the model we thought we could do it by which is everybody needs to conserve more and not just do whatever you want because that pollutes that's not working that failed it looks like we're going to have to have a technological response to this I don't know if Elon Musk is the God we want to piss off I'm like I want to identify the people who might have a shot but at fixing this with technology so you're scared of him what are you scared of Elon Musk or I'm not scared of them no you sound like you're scared of them I'm not scared of them but I think this is not a technological problem I mean if you have a technological problem yes you need genius no I'm talking about taking over Twitter for instance oh okay that this is a problem of politics of Sociology of human psychology I'm not sure that he's necessarily the best one to to address it I mean his view of Twitter he often says it it's like the Town Square that we need to protect the Free Speech there but Twitter is not the Town Square I mean Tristan Harris recently said that Twitter is actually the town's Gladiator Arena not the not the Town Square and in that town square rewards moderate talk rational talk discussion that tries to lead to consensus and Twitter is more like a gladiator Arena that rewards extremism that rewards rage and you know you don't even fight there against other humans like in ancient Rome you fight against these big beasts the boats but but I I agree there is a lot of rage out there and it's terrible but but there's a lot of stuff that annoys us that you just can't wish away or ban but there is what makes it worse there are easy fixes for instance you know a bot tweets about 800 times an hour a human being but that's what he wants to get rid of okay so first thing I mean if first thing it does first day he comes to the office instead of bringing a sink is okay let's get rid of all the Bots and if this is difficult engineering problem then let's limit that was his main reason for dragging his feet on this deal I want to get rid of the bots so if it does that I think that's a wonderful thing right okay well he's doing that and another thing is just limit the number of tweets that you can make sure say five an hour yeah and that immediately puts the lead on all these Bots but what I would say is that when you when you tell people that they can't be heard they don't go away Donald Trump has been off Twitter he didn't go away he's going to absolutely get the Republican nomination next time and his people they didn't go away either they didn't self-deport because he wasn't on Twitter and you see there was an attack at a drag queen Story Hour at a Portland Pub I don't know why people are bringing their children to a pub but okay uh but then Nancy Pelosi as you mentioned somebody attacked her thinking she was home she was not her husband got attacked in his home you know this is this cold Civil War that we're in that we've been hearing about this is Civil Wars I'm going to be like the last Civil War it's going to be this kind of stuff and I think when you when you shut off that valve of letting people talk I think that stuff only gets worse but the thing is yeah I agree people need not just to talk but also to listen so we've created this wonderful technology that it is good that it allows everybody to talk and and voice their opinions which we didn't have like 50 years ago right but we now need to work on listening well and not just talking one of the people which is not more difficult one of the people I love to listen to on Twitter is Marjorie Taylor green I don't know if you know Marjorie Taylor green but she's really having a moment uh Trump is considering her as a running mate in 2024 oh there she is yes and she's also gotten a lot of rentable press and when the Republicans take over Congress in 11 days she's going to be very important there so we thought today would be a good time to do 24 things you don't know uh if you like to hear them I'm sure you would for example I've never been in a store without demanding to see the manager I have three kids two in high school and one who was murdered by Hillary Clinton my greatest fears are snakes spiders and Jews how we let a few of those groaners back in in a relationship I sometimes open the door completely unarmed foreign kicked off truth social for not comparing something to Nazis my mom drank while she was pregnant with me and even more after she met me I will work with the Republicans who dislike me because there's no I in team I think past rooms are full of groomers I'm trailer schooling my kids [Applause] I would have liked Schindler's List if it was shorter not the movie the list of Jews he saved [Laughter] [Applause] if I could meet anyone living or dead I'd prefer living because if I was dead what's the point um so did I cut you off before you were about to say something to our last discussion I'm sorry I'm just going to add one more thing which is basically part of the problem with Twitter is not just the question of you know people not listening and so you get sucked into these Echo Chambers these tunnels and there are things that they can do with the algorithms to actually force people to try and Collide more with the different tribe shock um and that's a lot of the problem right now people go literally live in alternative universes right okay so like Audrey Taylor Green University the way uh the way the Democrats apparently think they're going to save democracy is through Tick Tock I saw this week foreign Joe Biden had eight tick-tockers to the White House with a combined following of 67 million followers and he talked to them and one of them said a lot of the creators they called themselves creators I love that influencers you know you know uh talked about how they didn't get a lot of civics education in school they were excited to learn about the structure of government and this is the problem you know if we were starting at okay here's how to register to vote but we're starting at this is what government is I mean we're so stupid in this country another one of the kids uh Nia Sue she's a she has 8.3 million followers um when she talked about the midterms they thought she was talking about the midterms at her College I think I just think when you're trying to get the young people to vote you've already lost the election uh I just don't think I don't you know young people in this did they vote in Israel to young people yes yeah because they're also pressed into military service and they're just more much more you look what's happening right now in Iran with the young people uh rising up against one of the most oppressive regimes in the world sure and I think we should give some respect for young people [Applause] well traditionally 15 of them vote in the in the midterm election 15 percent under 30. so I respect them 15 I mean yeah I mean that sounds about right to me like for like three out of 20 have a brain in their head and the other I mean they have brains it's it I mean it's we have let them down I mean we don't teach anything anymore but I think it's also a lot of them think that tweeting is politics they think they're tweeting they're engaging in politics they're expressing their views they're not actually getting to The Ballot Box and the problem again with the issue about Civics classes is back to this idea of gen P that if you live in your own world on cyberspace with your phone you think you can literally fashion it around you as you want and the idea of boring government full of grown-ups and adults telling you how to live and imposing a structure on you just is so 20th century right I'm and that's a problem right I mean every generation has to find a way to say to the people who gave them life and sacrificed their entire lives for them you right yeah and just do the opposite you know if you listen to Jazz I listen to rock if you like your coffee hot I like it cold I'll wear my pants my underwear over my pants if it means I'm not like you but the thing is having military service in Israel is really interesting because I suspect it's one of the things that probably creates a sense of common identity and brings people together that you take young people and force them all to go and literally live together for a year rather than living in separate little tribal groups and I wouldn't go for the Army as the best way to do it yeah yeah it has its downsides of course but but it's definitely true you know I would like to see young people vote far more especially because at least in the US it could be the last chance I mean the next presidential elections in the U.S could be the last democratic election yes in U.S history and uh it's not a high chance but there is some chance that this will be will be the case and what people often don't understand about democracy is that democracy is not elections that elections are an important part of a democracy but it can turn into a ritual they have elections in Iran they have elections in Russia it's not about the election it's about understanding a very complex system you know understanding dictatorship is easy there is this one guy he dictates everything that's the only thing you need to know in democracy is so complicated it's all these checks and balances it's all these basically self-correction mechanisms right the whole thing about democracy is the ability to say we made a mistake let's try something else you don't have it well I mean and we have a system that I mean you two and your countries have parliamentary systems which make that change I mean you just elected a new Minister I would not hold up the UK as a great shiny example about it do you think right now um you know you had a live trust but you don't like the new prime minister yeah actually I do I think he is should we celebrate that more I mean this is kind of their Obama moment if people don't know what well it would agree they've never had anyone who wasn't white now they have someone from Indian descent I mean it was it was only yeah thank you three people um you know they're pre-halloween exhausted British politics we're saving it for the party tomorrow night yeah here's the thing about what's happening in Britain I mean you know British politics used to be really boring and then we became like Italy in terms of our political swings but without the good food and sunshine um sadly um so we've had a lot of turbulence um we've now got Richie sunak who is as you say Indian of Indian Heritage Indian Heritage what's interesting though is that if you look at the debates around him the controversies it's got nothing to do with the color of his skin in the UK right it's about the fact he's rich and there's a lot of Voters who don't like that in the UK and it's kind of interesting you know race and ethnicity plays out differently in London from elsewhere and the UK and there were people in this country who said there was a backlash and there wasn't no it's just I feel like sometimes people in this country they're so into victimhood that when something of a progressive Victory happens they feel deprived they feel deprived of having something to about I think the other thing the other thing is that in the UK race ethnicity color your skin is not viewed so much as being in boxes but it's more spectrum because there's been so much intermarriage um you know I've lived in London for years and I live in New York my own kids are mixed race and um people in London used to joke that everyone in London is coffee colored but on a spectrum from Double Espresso to flat white and because you know people are mixed up and so it's not seen as being quite so rigidly in boxes and that's a good thing yeah so um let me go back to the environment for a second because your book A lot of the stuff that I found so fascinating was about how what you call the cognitive Revolution when people around 70 000 BC learn to cooperate and this is what you say and I think you're completely right separates this from the animals is that we can have an idea and it's usually a myth it can be a lie like religion but you know if a million if a million people believe that you know Jesus is God and the wrong people have taken over Jerusalem you can get a million people to march on Jerusalem like they did in the Crusades yes a million examples of this kind of thing okay so cooperation we would need that to solve this environmental problem why doesn't it work there um I think we don't have a good story cooperation is ultimately as you said it's based on a story that everybody not just accepts and believe but makes you enthusiastic about it willing to make sacrifices and it really goes back again tens of thousands of years to the Stone Age we did not we're not adapted by Evolution to worry about our environment on uh on the atmosphere on on global climate but be but because it's Stone Age people you don't have a have any influence on that so you are programmed by Evolution to worry a lot about the tribe on the other side of the hill to worry a lot about people in your tribe who might be plotting against you but not about the effects of your campfire on what's going to happen to the to the environment and so and we are still programmed to worry about these things it's much more easy to press the emotional buttons of people when you tell them about the other tribe or about the traitors in our tribe then when you tell them about global warming so that doesn't sound very optimistic for solving this other than like I say with some sort of technological saving because I don't see people cooperating on them but even warning us for like 25 years now that doomsday is coming but even full technology for technology to save us we need to invest the money in the right places you know the important thing to realize about the problem of climate change that it is completely within human power to solve it we all know these helpless victims we can do that we have the scientific knowledge we have the economic resources it's estimated that we need something like to invest two percent or three percent of our Global budget as Humanity in developing the right Technologies and infrastructure to prevent catastrophic climate change now two percent of the global budget is a lot of money but it's completely feasible this is why we have politicians for their job is to shift two percent of resources from here to there [Applause] can ruins of this impact this is what we could do but they don't I mean one thing I love about your book is you never forget the animals you never forget talking about how this March of civilization that we've been on the biggest victims have been the animals everywhere we go humans say Homo sapiens or ecological serial killers yeah and we're not stopping that either the bad things that we have been doing from the beginning don't seem to be retreating I'm not quite so depressed because actually there is a younger generation coming out that cares a lot about climate change um and right now in America but they're doing they say they blame it on this generation but then it's like oh and you're not using cars right you're only traveling in Greta's sailboat you know they care about it they've tweet about it they don't do anything different but I think they're going to really important is that we don't lay the responsibility on the younger generation say on the teenagers this is not their job I mean this is our jobs as adults to solve it when they are 40 50 then it will be if they want to influence if they want to help by all means they should be heard they should be given the platform but it's very dangerous when people feel that well we can't solve it the kids it's not their responsibility to solve it true that all right thank you guys time for new rules okay new rule when a bear attacks a human don't tell me at the end of that story that the cops are searching for the bear what are they going to do put it in a lineup the bear attacked a hunter in the woods where the bear lives it's called stand your ground [Applause] numeral all political debates must now come with a skip intro button We Know Who You Are are you've been bombarding every media platform we have for the last six months plus your intro is never about you it's my dad worked in these mines my mom cleaned houses my parents came here with nothing great let nuts vote for your parents [Applause] technology exists to take this extreme close-up photo of an ant doesn't mean you should [Laughter] look at this thing it's like a murder Hornet cross with James Corden after the eggs come out wrong if this is what's crawling around in my yard screw the Orkin man my new exterminator is Sigourney Weaver [Applause] new rules since the price of butter has gone up a dollar a pound this year Land of Lakes has to bring the Indian back come on liberals she's an Indian she's in a field just pretend she wants your vote for more gambling [Applause] neural the parents who were always telling me that I should have kids have to explain why 80 percent of horror movies are children are the devil seriously I feel pretty good about my decision because apparently few stories resonate with audiences more than this kid's behavior is so up he must be the child of Satan and a doll thank you [Applause] and finally new rule of Halloween is too much for your fragile sensibilities and you're worried about seeing someone wearing something that's on the Forbidden costume list [Applause] just stay the home every year we go through this lists of costumes you better not wear unless the night of irreverent dress-up spiral into something that resembles fun [Laughter] here's an idea click bait websites I won't tell you how to harvest and sell my personal data and you don't tell me what I can wear on Halloween because [Applause] Halloween is supposed to be outrageous it's a festival of the sacrilegious and a celebration of the grotesque from zombies to ghouls to bobbing for apples and other people's saliva thank you yet every year there's a new list of offensive things we shouldn't do on the day that's all about being offensive you know what I want to cancel November 1st all scolds day when the good people announce which costumes the bad people wore BuzzFeed I mean buzz kill [Applause] has a list of 23 costumes they're literally begging you not to wear of course this year the number one No-No is serial killer Cannibal and Netflix sensation Jeffrey Dahmer eBay has already banned selling it because otherwise it would be impossible to find a blonde wig in aviator glasses [Applause] on biles tweeted put the Jeffrey Dahmer costumes back in the closet we ain't having it who's we what's with the Wii who died and made you the Great Pumpkin [Applause] I'm so tired of a handful of emotional hemophiliacs on social media telling us what we can't do on Halloween and by the way please put drugs in my candy [Applause] listen to these other verboten costumes on stupid lists this year including Queen Elizabeth because it's too soon yes 96 practically an ingenue of course don't even think about characters outside of your race and no no Genies because Genies were slaves okay no sexy school girls no Playboy bunnies no celebrities accused of pedophilia including Elvis you can't dress up as Elvis that's an entire industry [Applause] no zombie versions of deceased celebrities well there goes my zombie Angela Lansbury idea laughs no uh no unhoused person what we used to call a hobo the default costume of every kid in history no one with an eating disorder so goodbye skeletons and no transphobic costumes because if kids want to see drag queens they can go to Story Hour [Applause] also listen to this no Putin no Trump know anything related to the Will Smith Oscar slap no Johnny Depp and of course Amber Heard is out no [Applause] and nothing related to vaccines or covet or monkey pox so have fun kids and let your imagination soar can I tell you something kids these are all great costumes yeah listen to me I'm your last connection to fun you should wear all of them in fact combine them if you want have the queen in Johnny's bed [Applause] have Will Smith smacking a hobo be hitting on a mariachi band Jeffrey Dahmer is the perfect Halloween costume what is scarier than a guy who you kills you and eats you not necessarily in that order for sake it's Halloween which is not just a fun holiday it's a necessary psychic release yes Society is going back thousands of years knew that you had to have some release valve on the calendar to flirt with the Macabre and let the demons out to role plays or they wouldn't come out later for real Mexico has Day of the Dead Japan has Oban Haitians have fed good day it's not a coincidence that carnival comes right before lent and Halloween right before All Saints Day much the way getting blown at a bachelor party comes before the wedding [Applause] you know I find it so interesting you would think that a handmaid's tale costume would be acceptable since it derives from a completely woke approved show that condemns the patriarchy no buzzkill says no handmaid's tale costume either because it hits a little too close to home right now okay this is the life philosophy of zelenials things that are interesting might also contain something which could cause a moment of discomfort so ban it all it's not your fault kids your parents ruined You by over protecting you and now you're these and that is the craziest part of all this being irreverent unclenched and playful should be the province of the young but it's not boomers are supposed to be to get off my lawn crowd but when someone in a problematic costume shows up at your door it's literally gen Z telling them to get off my lawn except it's not even your lawn because you live at your parents house [Applause] it's doomed to wear this year then the most ridiculous one I could think of you this year I'm going as an Uber woke overly anxious perpetually offended 20 something would you like to see what I have for this costume I think you're going to really enjoy it okay first of all I have my the patriarchy t-shirt [Applause] oh yes and then I have a check from the patriarchy to pay my car insurance [Applause] okay I've got my uh my nose ring my I know my vape pen I've got my cloth surgical mask my surgical mask my n95 mask and my face shield [Applause] then after I leave the house I have my Klonopin to take the edge off my Adderall to put it back on I have my participation trophy my cat ear headphones to listen to sad music the stick that goes up my ash and the least for my support enemy and just in case anyone still doesn't get what I'm all about I have a wet blanket [Applause] Cultural Center December 30th at the Waikiki New Year's Eve thank you very much Jillian said Yuval Harare and Quentin Tarantino join us now on overtime on YouTube thank you folks [Applause]

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Published: Fri Oct 28 2022

Reddit Comments

[u/SadPatient28]

thank you for posting this (so i didnt have to watch maher.)

i cant wait to get my hands on this book.

what was the jim brown movie he speaks of?

[u/thepokemonGOAT]

Of all people Bill Maher? Dude’s stuck in 1995 culturally, it’s hard to watch.