I Hate Bill Maher

People who want episodes that are as long as possible, congratulations, I left all the bull shit in this week. Diego got kind of drunk on like 3/4's of an ounce of whiskey and his cats went super saiyan for the first 25 minutes. Bill Maher addresses the Truth Social post. Like, a lot. It's an absolute disgrace that this show is on television.

00:00 - intro/some chatter

6:50 - real time recap begins

22:20 - bill addresses the post

41:59 - the interview/a parade of worms

1:03:20 - the panel

1:52:37 - new rules

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It's an odd feeling, to long for someone to be worse at what they're doing so that you can find it more entertaining. This week, Bill Maher manages to find a baseline of... not competency, but perhaps "not being pure shit"(?) and it's a little dispiriting for myself and my returning guest, Josh Boerman. Look, he still humiliates himself, but the mush mouth, the dozens of lip smacks, the total lack of knowledge about what he's talking about; it's here, but it's just... lesser. That is until the final New Rule, at which point we get to fill the quota for raving "what is he talking about?!"

Also, I fucked up some clips but it's because I pulled them while holding a sick baby. SORRY I'M SUCH A GREAT DAD!!!

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00:00 - intro

1:06 - bill maher news

9:35 - real time recap

29:03 - i bite my cheek, and proceed to do it roughly a dozen more times over the rest of the episode

29:08 - resume the recap

1:24:42 - new rules

1:53:45 - g'bye

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If you like when I am rude to the guests you're gonna love this one. I know I do, I love to mock the guests!

So, my guests this week were Michael Edison Hayden and Jared Holt, the hosts of Posting Through It, and the conditions we are recording this episode under are... UNIQUE, to say the least. The Real Time episode itself has an all time funny monologue due to flubs and insane joke choices (just wait for "Muslim Week"), as well as a mush mouthed buffoon getting racially uncomfortable around two black guests. It also was recorded, without hyperbole, six weeks ago, so fuckin' EXCUSE ME if I don't remember every fucking thing that happened?!?!

00:00 - opening spiel

01:54 - intro/bill maher news

12:09 - judgement free question zone

20:18 - real time recap

21:20 - a shocking revelation

23:05 - recap continued

1:30:23 - new rules

2:02:41 - outro

Buy Mike's book "Strange People on the Hill"! Listen to Posting Through It! Go see Mike & Jared & Christopher Mathias talk at NYU (pre October 28th 2026)

Hey, you can even check out my episode of Posting Through It here (you can hear me get kind of drunk and tired about 2/3rds of the way through it)

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ANNOUNCEMENT: The show comes out on Thursdays now, and Patreon episodes come out on... the weekend. At some point. God willing. I just need the extra day for both scheduling and editing reasons.

You know, sometimes you have your podcast where you make fun of a guy you hate, which means experiencing a lot of that person you hate, and you're sure this has absolutely poisoned your brain with irony beyond the scope of what any other person's brain could handle, and then you have two professionally online Zoomers on the show and realize you actually know nothing of irony poisoning.

Wow, look at that, I put a little work into the episode description this week! Pretty impressive, right? Anyway, this week Spencer Barrows and Liv Agar joined the podcast, and it took every bit of strength in my 41 year old body to not constantly ask them "hey, this isn't cringe what I'm doing, right? I'm not being CHEUGY????" They make the judgement free question zone look absolutely pathetic, and then we talk about Real Time season 24, episode 30, which is the rare modern Real Time episode where Bill Maher was NOT the worst person on the panel. Does that mean he was well behaved, perhaps even normal? Of course not, don't be a damned fool.

00:00 - intro/bill maher news

2:29 - question portion

16:25 - real time recap

1:09:46 - new rules

1:25:44 - psychic damage + plugs + final question

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Complicatedly Named Podcast Haver Tom Harrison is this week's guest, for yet another nonsensical episode of Real Time that is less "cutting edge look at current events" and more "grating conversation with your worst Aunt & Uncle who post way too much".

I'll be honest: this week I'm really struggling to write the description for this episode. I guess I could say "specifically they talk about this, this, and this", but I don't know, who cares? And I don't want to be like "we make some great jokes, such as" because if you've downloaded this you're almost assuredly going to listen to it, so why spoil the jokes? Really I'm just experiencing that thing where I finally bought something I had been thinking about buying for months, waited as the pants got hemmed, then finally brought it home, tied it on, and realized it's not going to solve any of my problems. It's a nice unstructured suit, and the parts can be worn as separates, but but it's also a little hot. I don't know, did I just simply get sucked in by the excellent marketing of those men's heritage clothing brands that seem like they were worn by fur trappers but in actuality they were started in Venice Beach a decade ago (I'm talking about Buck Mason). Also, Los Angeles is about to get hit by it's standard October Surprise (an insane October heatwave) and this one's going to be fucking B-A-D bro.

Tom was a fun guest.

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Okay, well, this one's REAL LATE but you know what? It was worth it, because this week I welcomed returning guest Gita Jackson, who injects more fashion talk into the episode than has ever happened before? This Real Time has annoying guest after annoying guest, from a credulous AI moron, to a center right Dem, to one of modern day's most racist guys. And then there's Bill Maher, who's kind of all three of those!

Got. His. Fucking. Ass.

Plus, hey, you're not going to believe it but this episode also has an insanely nasty and vicious final New Rule. Go figure! Also, Bill Maher talks about how he doesn't care if AI kills us all so many times that I think he might be suicidal. ALSO I got the comic wrong, the computer says "I am alive".

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Oh, did you enjoy your week off from modern day Bill Maher? Well whether or not you did, it's back, so you better be ready for one of the most IN-FUCKIN-SCRUTABLE final New Rules he's ever done. I'm sure I have typed that before, but I swear to GOD bro, I have never meant it more. And you know who can back me up on this? Podcaster and literal teacher of religious history John Brooks. That's right, no yahoo comedian this week. AN EXPERT (I'm remembering last week I had a labor journalist, so I don't really know how this is different, but this is the angle I decided to take with the episode description, which I always hate writing, so I refuse to come up with a new one.) There's an extremely funny conversation about AI in this episode that includes an all time absurd quote from Bill Maher.

Also this episode is late because my wife is out of town for a wedding, so I am parenting solo this weekend. That's right, if you had a problem with it being late, you were attacking a single father. I bet you feel pretty shitty now, don't you?!

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THIS EPISODE WAS RECORDED WEEKS AGO! I'M SORRY IF IT'S SOMEHOW WILDLY OUT OF DATE!

...but not that sorry.

Oh boy, I was fucking whacked out of my gourd on my recently reupped Ritalin prescription on this one, so it's good the incredibly patient journalist EMMA ARKELL joined the show to listen to me go bleh bleh bleh. It's an off week for Real Time, so we dipped way back into the archives to talk about Real Time season 6 episode, aka THE FIRST EPISODE OF THE WGA STRIKE! Not the strike people reading this are likely to remember, but the one that happened back in 2008 when every writer's room was almost entirely white men. I watched a video of the WGA president at the time addressing strikers and it's insane how white the crowd is.

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Booked at the last minute month continues (wraps up?, most likely) with Ella Dawson returning to talk about an episode of Real Time that features someone she knows from real life... or should I say "Real Life" (you know, like the show I'm always talking about on here.) Look, there was some good stuff to make fun of through the entire episode but the part I really can't stop thinking about happens at the start of one of the New Rules and I'm just not sure if we'll ever know what truly occurred in that moment. Anyway, young people bad.

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