Hannah Stocking | Club Random with Bill Maher

how are you hi great to see you good to meet you what do you think of that oh it's a i mean look at the i know you're out there i can smell cow vagina was everything that just brought me in you know you know what that's from what is it from well first of all this is called club running because everything in here is so random it is but it goes well yeah it's like everything didn't fit in my real house right up here and then at some point like i've had this place for like almost 20 years it became like a club random yeah but that's true because like there's i'm i know i was mentioning to like your producers that there's a lot of little idioms inside of this place that i actually own like this i have producers well there's news to me uh i thought i was just coming you know i live next door right yeah yeah they were telling me did you get a drink yeah you have a drink yeah i'm doing a sulfate free red wine regular sulfate free red wine it's organic yeah i just learned that um sulfates in the wine is what causes those wine hangovers i mean i'm always sympathetic to health stuff i'm very health conscious oh [ __ ] i mean like even this as i pick up a bottle of [ __ ] but you do have the mountain valley water very very health conscious stevia yes i'm sympathetic certainly always too anything that like oh could this improve my health and you know maybe sulfates in the wine it also sounds like something that could have just been made up by a bunch of chicks on the west side exactly i mean it's just a white it sounds it's it's very white like to know i mean i was just reading something like not that the whites are bad people we we've done very fine things but no i was just like reading something yesterday about beeswax candles and apparently they're natural the the nature's natural air purifier because they release negative ions that link to air pollutants but who's who's to know maybe you know that people are listening to this and saying these [ __ ] californians exactly you remember that sketch and i said no the california i do i do i i mean and i've always been a booster of california like i always hated me in the new york press because i was like no i like california greatest city in the world for you yeah not for me are you from california no i'm from new york oh you know that's pissed off about it because i most people moved here and they were like oh i missed the intellectual climate and i missed the artistic climate and i was like what about the climate climate yeah you know like as soon as i moved out here i was like oh it's january and i'm like not freezing and i'm laying by them you had me getting my vitamin d how long have you been in l.a 1983 i was 27 i just done two tonight shows so i was like that's what we did it's like time to move to california you know oh great so how did you get on the tonight show you know you're a funny comic in the clubs and they come scout and you know i mean they're aware of it's their business when i was a kid that was like only like a few new comics a year they were not like very off then when i just when i got into it every idiot whoever like told a joke wanted to be so it was kind of like getting into a marathon where you have to wait for you know a lot of the people who are going to be puking on the side of the road like you know it was very crowded field i'll just say that yeah yeah so there was a million comics but they would still come into the clubs and they would see and you know you could tell who was you know going somewhere usually yeah and then you'd go on with johnny carson it'd be like the biggest thing in the world you're you know bruh midfield as a show business person and hopefully he'd give you the old right like here we go now they made it into a white power symbol i mean i don't think it really is but they say that this is saying that is and what's funny is that um in like social media tick tock culture this if you do this symbol somewhere when somebody's taking a picture it's like oh i got you i didn't do a punch that's what so you like it's like a game and then like shortly after that it became a white power symbol so like i know a lot of my friends were doing that got attacked it was a whole thing but i didn't know you you started as a stand-up well johnny carson must have been in the clan because he was always going you know you wanted that so badly you know just to get the old approval from the approval that's funny stuff yeah but i i also feel like this symbol started as the okay symbol it is other things they just made something up to like catch people right exactly after you've already been doing it yeah it's a whole they wonder why you know i so many people these days are like bill why are you so hard on the left these days i'm like i'm just as hard on the right it's just that the left didn't used to do these things that make me go [ __ ] off you know like mind your own business and just stop being such a busy body in an hour now you're you know right you're right like stop being such an [ __ ] about things why am i going on that game like where did this go who started this too because it's been happening for so long like catching people the guy on jeopardy did you see that one of the guys who was like oh i think he won like three i don't know i don't watch jeopardy and why the media is like obsessed with this show i mean they cover it like it's national news this blows my mind like yeah i know whatever's going on on jeopardy it's like i have to know i mean yeah the demographic like the only demographic i know that watches it religiously my 90 year old grandma i'm like who else are you reaching no and i love the concept because i love that there are people who still care about knowing things and that should that's a show about knowing things my shows that way too yeah anyway but they're much more serious unless people are geniuses and the guy was like i guess he won three weeks in a row or something so he was just saying three like the players do when they make a you know a three-point shot they had to make some so you know it's just a way to say instead of you i guess you'd go that way or that way and then they said he was doing that and i think he was just saying i won three times oh no so they're making it into that right they made the jeopardy guy into the klansmen oh gosh and it's like yeah at that point [ __ ] off [ __ ] off yeah right i'm i'm with you bill we love you on that well good because if you're not you get thrown out of club random let me say it yeah i know my mom's here i will get a bouncer over here oh no i love like i had no idea i would ever be able to meet you my my parents are a really big fan of your show they watch it every every week i always love to hear that i'd be even more flattered if it was your grandmother because older people are generally wiser oh yeah so because they've lived longer mm-hmm i hate to break it to you kids i know so like the fact that your parents who i'm sure are they seem to have raised a very very charming area young lady so um i'm sure there are cool people yeah they must be they're like me yeah of course of course what are they gonna think about this i mean i told my mom about it and she was just like who who are you oh wow okay well um let me know how it goes and she's just like really like didn't really believe it she didn't really i don't know i think she just didn't believe it i haven't told your dad yet your parents are these are the parents you grew up with i actually fun fact i just turned 30 and i just moved out of my parents house like two years ago on purpose on purpose yeah yeah there's a lot of that you millennials you love your old your parents you like it because you're my best who else is going to buy saran wrap i mean that's just such like a random small task that i always forget they do my laundry i can focus on my career right come back there's salmon on the table it's called adulting i know you're adulting so you moved out to california wait wait wait no i'm going back to your parents okay okay because they're the ones who love me yeah so i love them well i love you too oh good but you probably do because your parents you know like so you're they're obviously very smart people people with great taste mm-hmm yeah and they stayed together as a as a family unit although yeah i mean they're still together that's rare very rare but also i would always see them together while watching your show so maybe you are the reason that my parents are still kicking yes i bring people together that's what i do i give i give i give and then what do i do i give a little more yeah because that's uh yeah that's cute so they watch me together and do they argue about it or they agree about it oh they agree they laugh my mom scratches my dad's back everybody's having that i thought you guys say it's balls but this is good too i'll take it like oh my god oh ruff imagining that sorry i'm very visual and i just watched that happen you don't think your mother still scratches your father's balls i hope not i really hope not i mean why would you hope not i hate you it's hard i mean i obviously wish for love and people expressing their love but when it's my parents there's something that triggers in the back of my throat it just makes me want to throw up i just want them to be happy like all my fans yeah so they raised you right on me that's good and you feel like they raised you right i mean i do i mean i'm still kicking today um you're 30. you expect to be dead in 28. i mean kick it you're kicking ass you're doing really good put it right there yeah kick an ass at 30. uh so yeah i do think they raise you right you did stuff with people i'm involved in attention attention i mean that's attentionism i'm always amazed that it's a under reported on company because it's so successful with millennials who want to know what the [ __ ] is up it's huge yeah they get anybody matthew siegel who's my great friend been here at a club random many times and he founded it and ran it and um they get anybody like obama can we interview you yes hillary obama they the the people who are you know important and in the know know oh if i want to reach the millennial illiterates who are actually going to vote yeah you know not the ones who are asleep in a ditch after being a birding man or something the one you're actually going to vote this is where we go to to reach them yeah yeah so for you to be on there which i think is a good real feather for you yeah yeah um i really loved working with them because you know we collabed on a lot of aspects about like just relatability within science and stuff i have a science background so i guess that's you know a good component of my parents you're the hot scientist you're like um dr christmas in the embassy of the james mon movie where um you know charlie sheen's uh ex-wife i'm sorry i'm what what was denise richards denise richards i'm sorry denise richards uh must be the alcohol but uh as you should yeah you deserve it but uh she was like doctor i think her name was dr christmas oh okay and it was in a show it was a movie it was a james bond you know it's one of the he was one of this is back in the day when james yeah and james bond was allowed to like like [ __ ] hot chicks that's you know now they completely pussified him i mean he on this one it's so it's so pathetic he literally takes his girlfriend and her daughter on his mission to save the world he practically stops off at target to bite tampons on the way to the underground layer yes it's because that's what we this is the woke world we live in right right but back in that day dr christmas and denise richards was hotter than the sun so it still is oh yeah and uh but also a brilliant scientist just like you looked at her and went that's not really possible but yeah i'll go with that you know the brilliant scientist yeah exactly yeah no i just um i don't know i grew up what is your science well i grew up in a small town and i really had no idea like what i'm doing now could even be profitable you know i would always think like okay yeah the most money i can make uh studying would definitely be a doctor so i'm gonna study to be a doctor and um i am you know more left-brained i think so science did come pretty easy for me so i i double majored in biology and chemistry and then to be like really competitive in that uh you know field to be accepted to medical school i did embryonic stem cell research wow and so it's just really really balls deep in it this is in college yeah in college and then um always had a passion for it and then yeah i mean after i graduated i fell into you know what i'm doing now but still i'm really always watching ted talks i've heard a lot of like academic research scientific research is [ __ ] i mean that it's so much politics and and like a lot of stuff that you cannot really trust what's in studies very often for a variety of corrupting reasons yeah pretty much like i feel a lot of articles on google are just kind of paid for and false and there's like forget what it is nhci or something there's there's some like website that actually has legit scientific studies and apart from that i really don't believe anything there was a senator i think it was ron wyden who said uh if you write a big enough check you can get any result you want absolutely i totally so that was that is your memory of it well yeah i totally i totally agree with it that's sad but so now you play a hot scientist on tv yeah and that's what i did in attention and so we kind of just collabed on a series uh we did a lot of you know skits and sketches that you know we collabed on and kind of targeted the millennial audience and so that's how i got involved with them well like anything that can engage people you know because the distracting level of that [ __ ] phone is just it's like trying i mean i really feel like trying to get anything done yes there are good aspects to it but basically i feel like the phone makes you a huge [ __ ] yeah much more passive aggressive and you know you can do things anonymously and yeah and ghost people and it just and then come up with an alibi easily yeah it's a whole thing and then also like disconnecting from reality too like my boyfriend does that a lot where i'm like hey like what do you think about this and you're just like you know that it's just yeah it's definitely that's really gross it's so right i hate that really i know so what's like your screaming guy who's looking at his phone it's a good point bill yeah maybe we should uh go to a therapy session right now i wonder what your mom and dad are thinking now i know that we finally stopped talking about his balls oh my god why do you got a [ __ ] number you keep god bringing back that video you're right i know five more times throughout this i'm gonna keep envisioning it it's gonna be a nightmare okay that's the last time nightmares but i'm so curious about your parents so what do they do so my mom she's a film editor oh she has movie trailers oh wow um and my dad he owns a coffee shop your mom edits movie trailers so she must appreciate the old inner world joke you know because there was a time when every comic in the world noticed that every trailer started with in a world exactly yeah yeah yeah every comic had a bit about that oh i don't know any of them but it's so true yeah so that's what she did yeah so that's what she did she actually has a lot of those commercials that start with in a world they all do yeah that i've seen it's so funny to say that wait so how long how long have you been in l.a right you're still not done with your family okay okay sorry i've added if i approve of your family okay okay and then your membership to club random will be processed and promoted you'll just see there next demetrius isn't that cool you saw the vip yeah it's so sick i mean i got a house and now i'm all into furniture and i just love can you read what that sign says at the bottom best friends only no below that below that you're the one with glasses i know i can't i can't see that either i can't remember it's something good though we'll go over that later yeah right later if i can get us some binoculars i don't know if i can get us in and it's only bottle service so oh okay do you have any cash with you no no it's 20. you don't carry cash no no way do you of course well actually the only time i carry cash is after i've gone to the strip club with some of my friends and they give me a lot of money to throw and i actually keep having girls never carry cash they're always like somebody will always pay what do i need money for have you seen me someone's gonna step i guess you're right of course we're supported by signal wire remember all of those classic sci-fi shows like the jetsons and star trek they presented a picture of the future where technology would make unprecedented 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against yeah and then that's why i'm all for getting the sulfates out of wine yeah but also to piggyback off of that i was learning about all that in covid and then i watched a ted talk about alcohol and the effects on on you and it mentioned that red wine is the only alcohol that's neurogenesis neutral so it's the only alcohol that doesn't kill your brain cells then i started being like oh wow well i'll just indulge in some wine and then i would have crazy hangovers then i learned about the sulfate free gimmick but still not good not good i have to throw a little yellow flag on the brain celsius it's not a real thing though exactly that goes back to what we were saying like what do we actually believe right i mean my thing with medicine is always i look at it i feel from a more of a maybe a bird's-eye view than where people are like a coveted they're so like focused mono on covet everything is covered instead of the whole thing and i've always been interested in health and and my overarching theme is that we are at the infancy of understanding how the body works and medicine if not they'd have cured cancer and parkinson's and a million other things yeah so so but just let's be humble about the fact that we don't know and this thing that you said about like kills brain cells i've heard that all my life but i also heard all my life things like metabolism slows with age and they just found out it didn't so really yeah so when i hear like kills brain cells i'm like maybe and maybe it's one of those that in a year so so does breathing i mean what does it mean it kills brain cells i've been you know yeah getting high on one thing or another for a long time yeah and i never forget what i'm saying i've been high on a lot of things for a long time and i never forget what i'm saying like really like how high no not high at all i mean i'm not too that's my lightweight i know people who've done so much more i mean like so much more nurse still i didn't get foreign till i was 19. that's pretty late in the game that is really late good yeah especially with this danger yeah and then that was always you know i thought more benign than lots of other things and you know everybody has a little flirtation with cocaine and then you find out how horrible that is and you know you you trip sometimes mushrooms i've done mushrooms but you know i'm much less of a drug addict than people think yeah yeah but also i think that's probably why like you're still crushing the game too i feel like a lot of people that get like a big you know moment kind of fall into that oh finish it so what what's your what's your secret wait so what what is your secret to what like have you been able to like still kill it after so many years clean liquor i mean living clean living that's what i meant to say um oh i don't know um i'm enjoying myself i i hope i'm killing it i know i'm killing it for the people who like it i mean there's a lot of people who hate me yeah but you know that comes with it yeah and uh they're wrong but you know yeah it's um i don't know i i think people in general have a bad attitude about age as you're in my age range 60s 70s they have a because it's a generally unhealthy country and people are not in good health to begin with they do see a lot of decline in that era and they just assume that and like i'm sure it'll come for me but like there's literally nothing in my life that i don't basically do the same way because i never [ __ ] grew up i never got married had kids i you know i didn't go through those pages look at me i'm still here in my [ __ ] with a hot trick yeah yeah so like you know my life hasn't really yeah changed and that's just say true of like most of the things that i ever did that make me happy i still do about the same way so like it hasn't caught up to me yet it will of course none of us are immortal but people just have a shitty view they think you're like done at 50 yeah exactly and like a lot of people are not even getting started i mean it takes a long time to figure lots of [ __ ] out like women it certainly takes a lifetime even when i look back when i think about like at 40 i was like oh i still had very wrong ideas right you know and did look looking back as douchey kind of thing yeah yeah but i would never do today right you know yeah i know i kind of view age as a power i also i was thinking the other day and i wish instead of how old are you instead of what level are you on like don't you don't you wish i could be like oh well i'm on level 30 and i'm on level how rolled you are because it's like leveling up in a game and it should be like appreciated and praised you're right and also like you're never too old or too young to really start but do you ever think that you would ever get married well mom this is what ariana huffington always says for 30 years you must get married you must have children i'm like i must not yeah but still you know you can do whatever you want she loves to tell that story about my mother my mother when she was 75 i remember we had a little party i was living in new york doing my first show which your parents probably watched you were probably too young for that one politically incorrect and until i got to know ariana and so we had a birthday in new york for my mother's came in with her 75th birthday i remember i gave her a diamond pin because 75 diamonds you know and ariana starts in my mother and like you know um you must encourage him to get married and my mother just went uh and in a nice way i mean this but just my mother you know she was in world war ii so she wasn't like any someone who took a lot of [ __ ] or like [ __ ] oh yeah i probably got it from her yeah you know and she just went huh hurry on it give it up give it a break exactly he's not gonna get married and that was back then yeah wait how old were you then oh i was in my 30s i mean that was probably yeah that was when i first was on that show and so did you ever like i know for me like as a just not right for everybody no totally for a lot of women i hate to generalize but i know for myself like it's like the oh i would love to get married but now as i'm getting older and i'm meeting men i'm like god do i really but did you ever have that like feeling or desire to or were you always like no that's just not yes but i think it was implanted i do like it from aliens and when i say aliens i mean the the culture uh implants this idea that there is you know look at movies there's one soulmate you know there's one perfect person and you're only with that person for the rest of your life and also it's like all the romantic comedies about you have to find it's like an easter egg hump there's an egg you know it's the perfect egg for you yeah and you're gonna find it and then you'll be made whole you'll complete me and all that crap you know and for some people it can work out there are people who have wonderful marriages from the beginning to end i know them you know they would be you know them but it's so few but so exactly that's exactly it and now um even in my generation i think that the percentage of you know divorces are going oh yeah way higher than what they used to be it's just you know people used to just be a lot more innocent basically yeah you know sex a lot less access to a lot of things too less sexually more innocent and less sharing of their personal and much more decorum but also yeah they're probably innocent because they weren't seeing as many stuff they weren't like hearing like crazy parties that's going on that yeah guys wore [ __ ] hats and coat and tie at a baseball game yeah girls are in from baseball game i mean they people just you know take care of themselves oh now it's just the whole country's as much as slovenly slobs and they they just absolutely yeah the girls are in the long course sets they can't breathe in that atmosphere it's harder to keep a marriage together i'm not sure why they're directly related but i think they are um so you what did your father do my father um well i grew up with him uh he had a chocolate factory at the time i mean you grew up with him well i grew up while he he's now doing something different i meant he i grew up while he was doing and handling a chocolate factory so he's pretty much like well he was with your mother yeah yeah they are still together uh always lived in the same house but yeah so he was willy wonka uh he owns endangered species where was this where yeah in oregon i grew up in oregon oregon really small town wow um but yeah and then a lot of his proceeds went to endangered animals um it was great he sold the company and now he's you know kind of retiring off of a coffee shop in burbank it's called base camp you should go it's really cool if i'm ever in a need yeah any kind of any kind of coffee pastry any kind of high i'm gonna write it down for me i will go there yeah yeah you should where is it in relation to that big giant big boy statue oh i know what you're talking about oh it's famous yeah bob's big boy yes yes or this is some giant it's kind of by uh disney studios disney on riverside i've heard of them yeah heard of them yeah so okay so your father's willy wonka and your mother is in a world yeah in a world yes and they both love you and they both love me and they love you mm-hmm yeah they kind of have to yeah and what do they think about what like you know this ascent you've been on and like how many millions of zillions of followers do you have yeah how many likes across all platforms maybe 70 million 70 million i mean that's like i always love that term followers because like i makes it always makes me think of jesus because like before social media who had followers a guy like him like a guy with a with a robe and a totally you're the first person to make that correlation that totally makes so much sense and people literally are actually literally in person following him and all i got is a stick yeah yeah but um but yeah i could ask my dad uh like hey dad what do you think i do he could still i don't [ __ ] know i have no idea i just know you make a lot of money that's it and so my dad doesn't really i mean he's like a greek armenian kind of hard ass he doesn't really know that i mean like a greek he armenian but he's just like like a heart all right now let's let's talk about the greeks and the armenians yeah yeah yeah greeks like ariana right i mean founders of basically western civilization yeah certainly the country fell on hard times for a couple of thousand years after that but still a great people great people so so warm and you know they have ancestors are gods they're women and sisters right guys oh well the ancestors believed in god believed in gods yeah they weren't i mean zeus himself i don't blink do you think zeus was greek uh jesus identifies as greek zeus was a greek god you know yes yeah so uh but like you can like something about europeans in general you know you kind of feel the that they have centuries of knowledge and history behind them you know there's just a worldliness yeah that we don't have as americans yeah you know informative languages just like people again like more decades usually you're a little more savvy yeah about [ __ ] totally if you're not you're you're progressing the wrong way mentally yeah what's your what's your ethnicity background i'm a ballerina and an asparagus um you're good because you oh he's turning it back i know and that's really a great quality i mean when people say something's someone's charming what they really mean is they were interested in me everybody loves talking about themselves you know who's a boar someone who talks about themselves all the time someone who says and what about you yeah but that that's what we need to see you're like this person's charming as [ __ ] like wow yeah i'll talk about myself because because like and i feel like with you it comes from a genuine place so it just makes me think oh well this is a this is a mensch this is a decent person because they're not just about you mm-hmm um so let me tell you that so let me tell you about that yeah back to me yes yes no i'm kidding um so i'm from two peoples who got their independence in the 20th century two peoples who are both very poetic and were very uh you know had rough histories the jews and the irish my father is uh was irish catholic you know of the kind of irish that came to america in the 19th century that a potato famine and you know a lot of irish came there's a lot of me a lot of people who i've met many guys who are like people say i look like you and i'm like yeah you're you're one of us right right right this irish mug you know right uh so i was raised catholic um unfortunately my mother is like i think hungarian you know eastern european jewish by heritage but i never even knew she was a jedi i was 13. what yeah how they just because they just mom didn't go to church my sister and my father and i went to church and we my sister and i went to catechism and i was so scared and when you whatever you do with a kid they think it's whatever is normal i never even questioned mom just doesn't go i never thought about it i had i had other things on my mind like i [ __ ] hate these nuns they scare the [ __ ] out of me yeah that's what i had on my mind yeah and so you didn't know anything about it i mean it just kind of came up at christmas one year yeah when i was 13 i remember i was kind of shocked yeah and then i put it together because like her side of the family but again they weren't like religious jews i've never been in a temple my mother's never been in a temple to my knowledge that we're just culturally you know and that's really the best part of it yeah you don't need the hair things have come down and the fuzzy hats in the summer you know i mean you don't need this thing you know i mean i'm sure yeah what a good reference i'll give you a pound on that yeah gradle now how do you know about dreidels i don't know i barely know about dreidels yeah well my my neighbor's jewish and i go to their shabbat every friday really see i've never been to that religious ceremonies yeah i had a bad experience with the catholics that is not as bad as many oh i mean i was never molested right and i'm insulted about it um no that that's interesting that you found out about being part jewish when you're 13. because i actually found out that i still had living family when i was about like 18 years i mean living fam oh that you never met that i never knew of yeah so my dad was adopted like oh really yeah and um apparently apparently this is the word on the street in my family is that my my greek family was in the gratian mafia so they were actually in prison for life then i went on facebook and then i found my long-lost cousin insane so i have like a whole big family now that i just found there's a greek mafia yeah yeah i guess there's everybody's murphy yeah i think there's they must not be very good because they're never in movies i mean like it's they must be a really uh second rate mafia i mean if you're gonna look for a mob they are never in movies it's always the russians russians or other other eastern europeans yeah like take in their serbians and those not to characterize but eastern european mafias are scary yeah i i have only the highest respect let me say that on the public record or the eastern european models i only need the highest respect they're they're a fine mafia but the greek i never heard of them uh yeah greek i heard of them when i found out about it all and the armenian side now mm-hmm that's like i know i don't look like it but you could tell if you saw my leg hair if i didn't shave it see now that's your version of scratch your brother's ball yeah i don't need to see that think about that i have a picture of my legs mid-quarantine i take your word for it okay we are supported by wine enthusiasts in greek mythology dionysus son of zeus and 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stream new episodes of the staircase on hbo max and subscribe to the staircase podcast on all major podcast platforms how would you characterize the difference between a life presented on instagram typically and that life in reality in reality um i guess it kind of varies if you're talking about influencers or creators it kind of varies on what kind of creating they're doing or if they're really open because there's a lot of people that are really open about their own struggles and mental struggles and family struggles and things that they're actually going going through and they present it and they let people know like their mental health what's going on with them so people can relate to them or there's other categories of people who just flex their bags and vacations and there's other people who just do comedy bits just to bring happiness to already such a negative world right um so i i think i would fall in the the category of bringing you know a positive light yeah i don't mean the price i'm talking about just the regular jaboni's who are like listen who are on it and are like fronting yeah like presenting a oh and then so it's kind of like beyonce's like sasha fierce like they like present some you know new character whenever the camera's on are you saying i think so i mean like you i'm asking you because this is why i love talking to people your age because i need to legitimately find these things out yeah yeah let me i'll talk so i'm interested in the i finding out like because my impression is that a lot of it is just people um yes presenting it's not like they're lying about life too much but filters angles choosing to just show the moments where you're doing great it seems to be a lot about wanting very badly to have everyone else who's following me think everything's going great either that or like enlist sob stories about your you know your mental problems right right right but let's just take that other category yeah no they're want to present this idea this facade that's not true and then they try to make it relatable to their followers and then their followers are still going through puberty they're just like but why can't i achieve this here's my it's impossible deep question for this to you why is it important why it isn't why is it important that other people think you're doing great why is that so it shouldn't be so important i think that is definitely a topic within social media because social media is so huge but i feel like that's also been a topic for before social media too i remember before social media i was always you know going to middle school dressed up pretending everything's fine you were doing this yeah i was and i was wearing my cool outfit and like pretending i wasn't just crying on the way here okay so i'm always like right humans always try to present their best selves you're right no matter what shows usually that's so true but it's more easily able to see exactly like i said about the phone it makes you it it's not like you're not an [ __ ] to begin with it just takes your [ __ ] qualities and exacerbates them you're totally you're totally right people were always fronting always people were always trying to you just couldn't do it if you had to go to high school every day people would see you all day yeah you know you can't fake that yeah but you can with a picture yeah i mean i mean there are there are a lot of people that um and often a lot of times i'm guilty of it too where it's like okay cool the camera's on like somebody's doing a story yeah we're having so much fun yeah she's so [ __ ] she said this cut and then we immediately just go back to like chillin so it is like it's just such an interesting dynamic of how you kind of you're getting your training as a communicator in a different era of technology than i did when i came up and other people have but it's the same basic thing the technology changes what they will never have too much of is good content mm-hmm there's more content it's flooded with it but it's insane yes it's that marathon i was talking about yeah you got a marathon too and at a certain point a lot of other people will be puking on the side of the road but i think when you know you're gonna advance in your career through different media the way you know like you see singers do it like they're a teen sensation and then you know lady gaga now is she's 30 or something it's more like for people that age you grow with your audience you know is that what happened with you like did i'm wondering like genuinely like did you ever ever have a moment and i know it never stopped you but did you ever ever have a moment where you were like puking on the side of the road like not doing well all of a bit over it like tell me i mean you never did like wow you're lucky it went right from no trust me i go through creative blocks i go through like to take a month off this is rough no but like when you were 23 were you doing this and that's what did it go well right from the beginning well yeah so okay yeah switch gears so how i started was it was interesting it was um i was doing my uh pre-med degree and my family while i was in college in the bay area they moved from oregon to l.a and so any spring break summer break winter break i couldn't go back to where i was from so i would go back to la and had no friends it was just my parents and my pets and then i also played volleyball in college so oftentimes i was always at the gym working out for volleyball and i mean in the middle of hollywood 24 hour fitness it's just a meat market i can't beat friends that way it's always guys like you know just like let me work i'm in the middle of it really that really happens yeah like that exactly it's just your earphones out number one it's yeah but it's not just once it's i go to a workouts 20 times it's it's insane they're starting to treat reality almost like it's tinder right it's like even worse it's worse than it's ever been it's worse than it's ever been it's the title of this yeah it's worse than it's ever been but um yeah like i always loved who raised you yes i do it always amuses me to hear attractive women talk about like episodes of guys hitting on them we can do another episode of this bill i'll talk an hour straight about it it's just it's endless comedy yeah and it is comedy too like how guys think that this would definitely work but the things they say are absolutely absurd but back what i was saying is i was at the gym a guy was with his girlfriend so green flag they come up to me they say something funny i say something funny back i forget what it was and they say hey um you're funny you should come out and vine with us tomorrow and vine uh it's r.i.p vine but uh it's non-existent now remember yeah so um it was six second videos yep and um too long i was like please i'm a busy man six second videos what you think i'm just sitting around in my underwear eating cheetos all day with nothing to do but yeah so i just thought vine was cat videos on the fly i didn't understand that people actually scheduled to vine so how i got into it was oh cool friends other than my parents and pets and so i vined with them and they shot a few vines i kind of saw how they did it saw the ideas they did then i came up with some concept it was nine years ago it's one of those relatable ones guys checking out girls versus girls checking out guys so the girls facebook star yeah and so the girl you know like sees the guy walk by they're like oh he's so cute and then the girl walks by the guys are like damn shown he's fine and he jumps on my back and like really aggressive with it like what we were saying and then um through that video it actually went viral and i got 100 000 followers in one day and then top that jesus yeah and so uh my friend was like hey you have a fan base now you owe it to your fans to come out with more content we're vining tomorrow so you learn how to come with three items brilliant you built on your base and you built a hundred thousand i built a hundred thousand but i was still like great um this is at least i can just have friends i never knew this would be something i could generate revenue from and so that's why i continued to go to college that's why i graduated never fully understand like all of this because a i'm not that interested in like well yeah it's it's already like such a beast and you're already such a beast it's not that it's just that like something has to come to me and when i saw you on attention that's when you came to me like an angel from above and i was like oh wow that's very smart and i'm telling you and you know you're 30 now and you could be like hosting the cbs evening news when you're 40 or 40 you know so i'm saying you're going to graduate to other things in media um because you know you're smart you know you you can handle it yeah um it's great so after you were a stand-up comic like when did you and you have that natural instinct that interviewer's innocence you go right i'm really wondering like what was your process after you broke out of stan or did the stand-up comedy interviews like when we first when we all first started at the clubs in new york in the early 80s we wanted to get on a sitcom that was the big thing and many of us did i did jerry seinfeld did everybody want that was it you were a comedian you did johnny carson's and then they saw you on johnny carson they put you on a sitcom like roseanne and freddie prinze and all these people and uh robin williams and then you became a big star for being on a sitcom that's what was in our mind when i was 23. then that changed over the time you know and then i did sitcoms and i was like no this is not what i'm really cut out to do so then there was a little period like where i was really wandering in the wilderness you know like i had done sitcoms and thought i was going to be like a you know the sitcom funny guy actor and it's like no and then you know show business is always partly luck you know comedy central was a new network they needed a show and i had a good idea for a show and then that's really but i was always meant to do what i'm doing i mean it was a waste of me as an actor because i'm not that great an actor and i'm much better at this and it's much more unique and you know i mean they could get another guy to play the office creep yeah i was in tv guide once on my first had come and it was like the show was premiering and they had the four characters gina davis was the lead um became a big star alfred woodard bronson pin show and a little thing under each of her to tell the audience who we were and under my name it said the office creep because that was the character and it was good because that that was the funny one the other ones yeah they didn't give the other ones that funny lines they were just long yeah they were normal people and i was the office creature no my billboard was awesome yeah you can look it up you can and it's so funny you can google youtube i will and i will when i get home get out your magic light box yeah do you ever have your magic light box with you sorry i don't even know what is it it's right there you would never leave it yeah it's right here i lose everything except my phone um you don't call it the magic light box no okay wait so what was the show you pitched to comedy central was it politically incorrect oh okay yeah great so yeah there were some years there where it was like tough because i was done with one form of my you know as a snake sheds its skin not that i'm a snake uh a caterpillar let's pick something nicer yeah i became a butterfly whatever but like there was a time and that that happens in many careers you know where you have a down point before you come back up even frank sinatra who was the biggest star in the world as a singer in the 40s couldn't get arrested in 1950 and then he had a comeback you know that's part of the plot of the godfather yeah they got him the part in the movie you know right and um so okay in that downfall of yours that's when you did the show with it was good that i it was good that i did not it's good that i did not get on a sitcom that was a hit because then i would have been the office creep for a while yeah yeah oh totally and maybe the audience would not have accepted me as you know something which you know is more like well not more like it's exactly what i think mm-hmm and who i am right i mean my whole like your ability to evolve is what made you well my whole life and also any successful person really always evolves in what they do i hope i mean my whole career and mindset has been from the beginning the thing i really wanted to do is to get on camera for the audience exactly what talking to me is like in reality because most of tv is just sickeningly fake yeah you just want to gag i do i can't stand it yeah and i get us pretty close on uh politically incorrect and then real time you know and that's but like i can't get closer yeah me getting drunk at my own house i can't love it i cannot get closer yeah it's been a lifelong struggle to get to this exact moment i love that for you okay so you like so tequila's your favorite did you ever like is it your favorite yes nice me too hard alcohol that's my favorite too so um wait so how much but you seem like you're very much into health i mean you look like you are because you look very healthy in covid i got like kind of you know i got into health and wellness and so i'm doing i'm like following what the health and wellness community is doing i'm doing exactly what you're shooting mountain valley water the best way everybody could have protected themselves from having a bad result with covid was by getting in better health better shape when you're in good health to begin with and better mindset too well mindset is part of your health and uh very much so i was learning i didn't even know this i wasn't even taught in school that how well i i learned in college but you know i just i had no idea the negative effects that stress has on your body too which is just so insane to me and so you know kill you yeah absolutely it could cause autoimmune diseases of course well it i mean you know medicine is such a complex amalgam of factors like stress but also toxic pollutants that are around us which are in everything it's in the food it's what you eat but yes in perfume furniture yeah i mean we live in that kind of world and then there's factors we're not sure of i mean electromagnetic energy i'm not sure the phone is great having all that oh that's all that electromagnetic energy this thing i put on my phone it's supposed to like block you know what that's called i don't know it's called an amulet yeah it's like a little thing you wear on your on your neck to ward off evil but it has no accessories but that's what a lot of masking was during not all so asking some masking was totally appropriate but some of it was just an amulet yeah this is going to ward off this evil and it's like you know what so are you are you like dairy-free or gluten-free or did you change well gluten i'm not sure that again may be one of those things that um started at a book club yeah i mean it's a real thing i just don't think it affects like nearly the numbers it's just one of those things that liberals boy when they didn't jump on a excuse me i had the crabs for dinner no that was that was the chair um i when they want to jump on some [ __ ] oh they do but yeah like the basically it's bigger than gluten i don't need bread oh you don't bread is not good for you i'm sure i hope we don't have a bread sponsor for this show but i don't think so but i mean at least that's what i think you know what i'm not dispensing medical advice don't [ __ ] flip your wigs even though a lot of what i said comedian was more right than what the [ __ ] you know official people said i said right from the beginning stress sugar sleep the three s's there's a bug going around eat stop eating sugar get enough sleep don't stress they did exact opposite lock themselves inside and over ate and then stayed up all night about something that was yes a real thing and could be a dangerous thing but was hyperventilating was not necessary for most people yeah utah in the middle of the lack of vitamin d huge huge you know one of the other things i said from the beginning vitamin d and now i just saw there was a study that says yes most of the people who've been dying from this covid have have been lacking in vitamin d it's not rocket science it's not like i i'm a genius scientist who made that up i know doctors and i read stuff and it's like obvious vitamin d is key and we're we are depriving ourselves of it with this yeah i actually i recently did um like a breath test and a blood test just to see my levels and i'm like severely deficient in vitamin d and i also heard about this other study and not sure if it's true or not but there's this doctor that was talking about how a lot of people aren't able to process vitamin d from the sun and so they actually have to take supplements right but you need the sun to convert it that's it and the sun is not the enemy people have these they demonize things in medicine these days you know like cancer well it can give you yes of course anything you can over you can kill yourself drinking too much water but you know basically you need some sun and if the sun is not horrible for you and maybe some of the stuff that's in sun block is not great for you i think i saw that study recently again one of those like carcinogens what else don't you know what else did you get wrong stop looking at me with the white coat and the stethoscope like when have we ever been wrong a lot just have some [ __ ] humility about it exactly it's always been trial and error damn it you're having me yelling again all right i have to this was more fun i love talking with you we could go on for hours we could you know when i like a millennial i really like millennials not the majority of them but like the good ones like the third that they come to my shows and i know they're good ones because they know this is in the safe space but when when they're not [ __ ] they're great yeah you're not a [ __ ] either and i respect you bill

Channel: Club Random Podcast

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Id: I4L0iZzG064

Length: 63min 28sec (3808 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 17 2022

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[u/o0flatCircle0o]

Literally who

[u/[deleted]]

Yikes. Based on this CR episode IMDB screwed up Bill's history.

Bill states his Dad is the Irish Catholic

Bill said his mom is the Jewish Austria-Hungry

https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0005175/bio?ref_=m_mn_ov_bio

[u/[deleted]]

Glad to have Club Random while Real Time is on hiatus.

Please be careful about perpetuating Celiac/Gluten Intolerance is overhyped. It is a legit medical diet for a subset of the population, and is much more involved than avoiding bread, and eating gluten free at a restaurant. It is not a diet one wants to be on for a lifetime if they don't have to be.

Thanks

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[u/kasper619]

She was great

[u/bigshaboozie]

Apparently all it takes for Bill to show interest or curiosity towards a younger guest is the guest saying their parents are fans of Bill's, lol. I actually enjoyed this episode more than I expected to

[u/Bruce_Hale]

"A lot of medical research is bullshit." - Bill Maher

[u/Largue]

Surprisingly good for being a younger guest that is Instagram-famous. I can't believe her dad is the founder of Endangered Species Chocolate, I love that stuff!