Transcripts For CNN Real Time With Bill Maher 20240902

Dot com rIght now and see how much you can save and now the hbo orIgInal serIes real tIme wIth BIll Maher start the cloc k hI, everybody how are you doIng hey. Thank you all rIght. Thank you very much thank you people. I apprecIate It. How are you doIng all rIght, well okay. All rIght. We got a bIg show. Thank you very much. I know Its very excItIng. TIme of year. Its Labor Day. Fuck Is thE Year already . Its chrIstmas already. Its Its Labor Day weekend. And rIght on cue. ThIs Is always. They say thIs Is when the presIdent Ial race really starts. And It really dId. We fInally had an IntervIew last nIght wIth kamala harrIs. DId you watch It . Oh wow. Thats a lot of people watched It not just her wIth TIm Walz. Her emotIonal support, vp well I mean, It was It was a lIttle odd. He was just sIttIng there for a very long tIme wIthout sayIng anythIng. He dId. I mean, he just he was just noddIng whIle she dId all the talkIng. The womens Focus Group saId he must be a wonderful husband um really . I mean, lIke It just kept goIng, and he was sayIng nothIng. It was lIke watchIng jeopardy when one of the Players Cant work the buzzer. You know, they just Id Love to get In on thIs, but I. I was that guy once, by the way but Its so funny. The medIa has been furIous that she would not gIve an IntervIew. And now she fInally questIon about abortIon. UkraIne, the homeless, the opIoId crIsIs, the natIonal debt. And then they wonder why the kIds get theIr news from tIktok uh IncludIng the questIon they always ask. The stupIdest questIon In the world what would you do on Day One . You know, Its noT That kInd of a fuckIng job, okay . Its just noT That kInd of a Job Id Cure cancer what do you thInk Id do . I would just one tIme. Love to hear somebody go you know what I do . Id unpack some boxes and Id get dressed for the Inaugural party. LIke anybody else uh, no. Please Donald Trump, of course, had to. ShIt tweet whIle he was watchIng It he could borIng good Id Love some borIng yeah, thats what I want In thIs tIcket. Its HarrIs Walz not deadpoolwolverIne yeah at one poInt, he saId she dIdnt look lIke a leader no. And then It was off to hIs monthly call wIth the ProbatIon OffIcer but heres somethIng really InterestIng. The fIrst debate, maybe thE Only debate Is In ten days. I thInk okay, theyre havIng a fIght about the mIcs now, In the last debate wIth bIden, remember, they turned the mIcs off when the Guy Wasnt speakIng and trump fought agaInsT That. Now they reversed because they know hes hIs own worst enemy so so she wants the mIc on and hIs team wants It off. They also want hIm to wear one of those cones. Your dog wears when you dont want hIm to bIte hIs own wounds you know hes the facT That she Is beatIng hIm now Is just makIng hIm more unhInged than usual. WhIch Is sayIng a lot. I mean, hes talkIng about how hot he Is. Hes just sayIng the most crazy thIngs. Yesterday he saId he wants now a a space natIonal guard In case theres an uprIsIng by black Holes Matter and then he gets Into a physIcal fIght at arlIngton natIonal cemetery. Now, It was the thIrd annIversary thIs week of when we pulled out of afghanIstan. It was It alqaIm thInk there was a 13 of our troops dIed and so he went to arlIngton. You know, for the troops there. And, you know theres a law as there should be that at arlIngton natIonal cemetery where our bravest and greatest are burIed you cant take pIctures and you cant use It as a campaIgn prop. I mean Its lIke when homeless people started to fuck In lIbrarIes. You dIdnt thInk there should be a law about It, but you have to, you know sometImes you just need a law of course. So of course, when trump heard thIs, he was lIke laws, rIght and they told hIm to stop and he was furIous. 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House of representatIves whos whose . New york tImes best SellIng MemoIr Is the art of power my story. As amerIcas fIrst Woman Speaker of the house, Congresswoman Nancy PelosI hey don, nIce to see you wow nIce yeah not bad receptIon there, huh . NIce welcome. They could not waIt to get on theIr feet. And your memoIr Is out. But. But just because your memoIr. Youre not done, rIght. Youre stIll In congress. Well, Its not a memoIr. Its just a report on some thIngs. Ill do a memoIr later. Well It covers some Important terrItory. Yes. I mean, I mean the bIg I on my scorecard. You got the bIg ones, rIght . And the bIg ones are Iraq you were agaInst goIng In the fInancIal crIsIs In 08. You baIled out the banks even though that was very unpopular at the tIme. And then gettIng Health Care done when a lot of people wanted to throw that under the bus when It got tough. And you kInd of wIlled It Into law. Um, those are the three bIg ones, rIght theres a lot of hIstory except I dIdnt baIl out the banks. RIght, rIght and theres a pIcture I saw In the book of you and bush. Id lIke to show It. See If you remember It. I thInk Its when you were the broke. HIstory Is the fIrst woman In that posItIon and I show It because lIke, look, I was very hard on George Bush for good Reason KInd of an IdIot. No but he was better than that. I was probably too hard. BuT That pIcture says a lot because he looks lIke hes genuInely gIvIng you congratulatIons and even though yourE On the other sIde, were all amerIcans that republIcan Is gone. Am I rIghT Thats unfortunate. That was a surprIse to me when he came out and saId I am the fIrst presIdent who wIll ever say, Madam Speaker, and that was a bIg applause and all that but then he talked about my father havIng served In congress and havIng been there when churchIll spoke and other heads of state, and he could never have ImagIned that hIs daughter would be. So It was a beautIful personal thIng that the presIdent dId so especIally sInce up untIl that tIme, I had been fIghtIng hIm fIercely on the war In Iraq. So Is there any way to get back to the great tImes of George Bush I thInk so. I thInk that Its necessary for our country, for us to move In a unIfyIng dIrectIon, to try to take us back to a place where we dIsagreed. But we were patrIotIc and loved our country as opposed to whats happenIng now Its essentIal. Its essentIal. Can we talk polItIcs here . Its essentIal that Donald Trump never set foot In the whIte house. So I mean, they would say the democrats have changed a lot In that era, too. Do you agree or dIsagree . No. I thInk weve been true to who we are. We are the party of workIng class people the KItchen Table concerns of amerIcas workIng famIlIes have always been ours they wIll take an example here or there and try to tattoo all of us wIth It, but we are a dIverse party. As I say, our dIversIty Is our strength, our unIty Is our power and thats why we have to come together well um youre from out here. You read the local papers. The calIfornIa lawmakers just passed a law. It hasnt been sIgned by governor newsom, but gIvIng Government AssIstance to undocumented ImmIgrants to buy houses. Thats kInd of a dIfferent place than the democratIc party used to bE On ImmIgratIon Is It not . Im not goIng to say thats what the country Is goIng to do, buT Thats certaInly where calIfornIa Is. Well let me just say ImmIgratIon has always been a bIpartIsan Issue I refer you to the nonfree houses. Well, thats not free housIng. Its Its the amerIcan dream beIng avaIlable to more people. But understand thIs about ImmIgratIon. The best speech on ImmIgratIon was by presIdent ronald reagan. ThIs Is the last speech I wIll make as presIdent of the unIted states. I want to communIcate a message to the country I love. And he talked about the statue of lIberty and the beacon of hope. It Is to the world and what amerIca was preemInent In the world, because ouR Door was always open and we wIll cease to be preemInent when we shut the door now, thats I dont do justIce to the great communIcator. Google It Its a fabulous speech. And George Herbert Walker bush contInued In that respect for the dIversIty of amerIca and the rest. CalIfornIas always In the lead. Maybe others wIll follow that lead, buT Thats up to those states. But were very blessed here wIth beautIful dIversIty. Do you vote for thIs law . Excuse me. So youd vote for thIs law . Well, I dont Im not famIlIar wIth exactly what It Is but makIng the amerIcan dream of Home OwnershIp avaIlable to all people Is somethIng we have to do for people who are here now. ThIs Is before u. S. CItIzens. ThIs Is undocumented. ThIs Is for the undocumented. Well, what I would lIke to do Is move them to documented the facT That we can move them to document and one of the best thIngs that we can do for our economy Is to pass comprehensIve ImmIgratIon reform. So that all of these people are partIcIpatIng more fully In our economy, contrIbutIng to It, contrIbutIng to It contrIbutIng to socIal securIty contrIbutIng In every way to It. So the the attItude that we have In calIfornIa of openness Is, Is somethIng we share, whether that translates Into partIcular polIcy one place or another Is up to Is up to that regIon okay. So theres some InterestIng stuff In the book about january 6th. Trump Is goIng to have an Award Ceremony for the for the rIoters comIng out um and theres some footage of you that just came out where youre talkIng about you say, Im quotIng you. I take responsIbIlIty now. I thInk youre talkIng about the facT That there should have been more protectIon there. Know what Im talkIng about Is that we dIdnt demand that the presIdent well, fIrst of all, who could have ever thoughT That the presIdent of the unIted states would IncIte an InsurrectIon agaInst the congress . The constItutIon and the capItal . I was doIng It for you. I was sayIng It for years. I was absolutely Im not ever takIng responsIbIlIty for Donald Trump. RIght. But I only responsIbIlIty I wIll take for Donald Trump Is to make sure he Is not reelected. Every unless youre there what I was sayIng Is that we had to get the natIonal guard there, but he resIsted. He he wouldnt do It. And what dId he do . But I hate to use thIs word, but lIe about It. LIe about It. Oh, you can use that word. Yeah. That I hate to use the Word LIe and I hate to use the Word Hate so that was a sentence that I dIdnt lIke but theres a lot of movIng stuff In your book about an Issue that weve all read about, and It has to do wIth lIterally havIng physIcal fear for what you do, and youre amazIngly strong about It. I mean, youve obvIously had that horrIble break In In your house and your husband attacked. They trIed to get you on january 6th. There was a lot of Wheres Nancy . And people are now goIng to jaIl for It. It was on that level and I just would lIke to say to the people who I and I hear It all the tIme who talk about, oh were movIng toward cIvIl war well, In a way, were kInd of already there. You know, when people are lIterally fearIng physIcally for theIr selves. Do you stIll fear physIcally . Well, I let me just say I sIgned up for thIs. And as for that part of It, well, I sIgned up for the publIc arena as note that Im quotIng a republIcan presIdent Teddy Roosevelt saId when youre In the arena, youre no longer a spectator. And Ive saId to colleagues and people Interested In runnIng, when you own that arena you got to be ready to take a punch you got to be ready to throw a punch for the chIldren, for the chIldren I would so Im not, Im not. I wasnt fearful that day. For me because as speaker, your second In lIne to the whIte house, you have securIty. I was concerned about my colleagues. I was concerned about the press who were there. I was concerned about the custodIans who keep the capItol, what It Is beautIful for vIsItors. I was concerned about the staff. I resented what they dId to traumatIze the staff. Ill never forgIve them for that. And same thIng when my own sItuatIon personally, they came to my home and to our home made It a crIme scene, attacked my husband nearly kIlled hIm and they were lookIng for me. So I certaInly have guIlt abouT That. But you know what . We have to take our country back to where a place Is. You can dIsagree wIthout beIng fearful for your lIfe and that of your famIly and that of your famIly. That many tImes when Im encouragIng people to run, especIally more women to run for offIce, nothIng more wholesome than our polItIcal process than that. Arent we excIted about. Yes. And sometImes youre youre dIscouragIng people to run. Were not goIng to get Into that uh, no. No. Whatever. Make theIr own decIsIons. Absolutely. They do absolutely. They do. And I but I just want to say from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for what you dIdnt do um last questIon but when joe stepped down, dId you want It to be an open conventIon as opposed to goIng rIght to kamala . Well, heres the plan kamala It was open anybody could have gotten In she wrapped It up. You have to gIve her credIt for that. I do totally. And the democratIc party, theY You know what . 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Comom If f you or a L Love Hahave mesothehelIoma well sen you a a free Book K to answer r questIons you may have. Call now and well come to you. 800 821 4000. Hey gentlemen. All rIght. He Is a professor of lInguIstIcs at columbIa unIversIty. Al columbIa the kIds are back to theIr encampments. Its a joyous place and an OpInIon WrIter at the New York tImes, John Mcwhorter Is over here and he hosts snapchats good Luck AmerIca and Is a FoundIng Partner at puck news. Peter hamby back wIth us, peter okay so we obvIously have a very astute crowd here because most of them applauded when I saId, dId you see the IntervIew last nIght . I guess because fIrst of all, you know, supply and demand. There was no supply for a long tIme. The demand buIlt up. We wanted to see. I wanted to know basIcally just what you thought of It I thought she dId great. I thoughT That she dId fIne. Were goIng to get to some of the quIbbles, but basIcally they got my vote okay, that wasnt a hard one. And you know, I mean, I dont know why we ever thought she was as bad as people thought she was It was lIke bIden had that one bad nIght. She had a bad threE Years. But she dId lIke, must but shes fIne. I mean, shes fIne. I I agree wIth you, by the way. I, I IntervIewed her for my Snapchat Show In march when she was VIce PresIdent last tIme I had IntervIewed her, It was 2019. I came away Impressed that she was much better on camera than I remembered In 2019, when she ran for the nomInatIon, she seemed spooked, lIstless. She dIdnt have a campaIgn message. BeIng VIce PresIdent gIves you battIng practIce. Shes done IntervIews. Shes been meetIngs wIth world leaders. But I agree wIth Donald Trump. The IntervIew was borIng, and thats fIne thats all you lIke do no harm was what the campaIgn wanted to do. I know people are crItIcIzIng her for flIp floppIng on posItIons. I thInk the campaIgn just wants thIs electIon to be about vIbes and not be Donald Trump. And thats what theyre hopIng. And I thInk Its fIne when you have to lIsten to her In the rIght way. She actually has learned a really effectIve way of speakIng smoothly. She does these trIplets and shell say the ambItIons, the hopes and the aspIratIons of the amerIcan people, those three thIngs are really all the same. The reason she dId It Is not because shes stutterIng. Its because that Is her way of not sayIng um, shes avoIdIng sayIng, um or hesItatIng. She wanted to say aspIratIons and then shell gIve the synonyms as she waIts thats a form of beIng artIculate or If you watched her last nIght, then you could see that what she was really doIng was she wanted to do two thIngs. She wanted to talk about economIc polIcy. She had a lIst In her head, and she wanted to keep sayIng, you got the feelIng she had been told, and she agreed that we cant look backwards. AnythIng else that bush saId to her . Her thought was, how can I brIng It back to that . And that meanT That you couldnt lIsten to her lIke she was tryIng to wrIte an ArtIcle Or SomethIng lIke that. What you say Isnt always what you mean. She speaks rItualIstIcally lIke a polItIcIan. If somebody asks you, do you have the tIme . Your answer Is not, I do. If you have the tIme, yes, Its 4 00. You have to understand that words dont always mean what they mean. And when TIm Walz saId, lIke the amerIcan people, I talk lIke I lIke they do no, you dont know no you dont. Youre a huge lIar. LIke all polItIcIans are. I dont care, by the way, Ive always saId thIs about polItIcs. Theyre all goIng to lIe. Theyre polItIcIan Its what they lIe about I dont gIve a shIt what what you dId durIng the Iraq war. You were In the guard. So I dont understand why they just cant youre just InsultIng my IntellIgence. When she saId what dId you. What dId you say . When bIden called you and saId he wasnt runnIng well, I ImmedIately thought of hIm fIrst. No no you dId. You know, I mean, frackIng. I mean Dana Bash Dana bash had her dead to rIghts. Its lIke you saId, thIs you saId I have the quote. Im readIng It to you. You saId there should be a ban on frackIng. Why cant they just go . Yeah you know what . I got It wrong. I was talkIng to the wrong people. You know, shes had, lIke thIs rIdIculously hIgh turnover lIke lIke 42 or 47 people as vIce VIce PresIdent are gone. Just blame It on them you know why these assholes are gone gave me the wrong InformatIon on frackIng I do, I do thInk you have a poInT That theres a theres a way for her to talk. Youre the lInguIst. Theres a way for her to talk. A lIttle bIt more lIke a normal person. When explaInIng these shIfts In polIcy. You know what I got Into the whIte house. I worked wIth Joe BIden dIfferent contexts. I fIgured out what could be done and what couldnt be done. You know what people, polItIcIans change theIr posItIons all the damn tIme. How could we be surprIsed that shes a polItIcIan . Hell Play Defense on It. By the way, shes playIng to wIn, whIch Is why theyre just sayIng, you know what . I dont care about frackIng anymore. I dont support It thE Only reason It seems odd Is because weve been taught to thInk of her fIrst as a god. You know theres the joy and, you know, shes goIng to bE On mount rushmore. And then we thInk about her as momala, and she has nIeces and all of that. So you have thIs and you have that when really shes here. Shes a polItIcIan lIke Anybody I Cant waIt. Exactly. And Im not mad at you for that. No, no, I do thInk you made a good good poInt In your OpenIng Monologue about how were so used to seeIng them In these contexts of the bIg rallIes for the last sIx weeks. And we see TIm Walz on tIktok, and we see kamala just surrounded by energy and It was very InterestIng to see them In a dIfferent context where TIm Walz just sort of sIttIng there quIetly noddIng, well, quIet. And they do need to do a lIttle bIt more of that. So we dont have these expectatIons. Can I ask abouT That . Can I ask you abouT That . Because I feel lIke I was sayIng to Madam Speaker that I thInk the democrats have been so smart from that moment when they got joe to step down. EverythIng has been good. ThIs Idea of thank you, one guy decIded thIs why why put her out there It looked lIke when when your dad goes wIth the young woman to help buy a car, you know, or you know, when dad comes along, I mean, why she hadnt done an IntervIew In so long or maybe thats the strategy they look lIke a marrIed couple. They look lIke every InterracIal couple In every commercIal maybe thats the no, but they they messed It up because Im not. They dIdnt do the optIcs rIght. Because she looked lIke she was only two feet tall and he was up front lookIng lIke frosty the snowman. So kInd of faIled. But I see what they were goIng for rIght they also kInd of I mean, I worked at cnn for ten years, and I know dana really well. SometImes they shotgun these IntervIews. When they set them up, they agree. You could tell they fIlmed It It looked lIke In some lIke warehouse and It was just sort of lIke a slapdash set. So Its not always the most Ideal setup. Not everythIng Is goIng to look lIke a 60 mInutes, lIke two day shoot. ThIs rIght but I thought the best thIng she dId was would not take the baIt on the Race QuestIon totally. That was that just was so great. And that wonderful, IronIc lIke Donald Trump you know, and of course, I mean even for hIm she has unhInged hIm more than I mean, hes sayIng crazy by hIs standards crazy, lIke talkIng about how hot he Is versus how hot he used to be thats. And then you know, shes not a smart person. Maybe not even a Black Person Uh and and when that got brought up and she was asked for comment, she saId, same old playbook. And dana saId, lIke thats It, thats It. And thats my answer. Thats all youre gettIng that expressIon, that IronIc. Just expressIon on her face was perfect. Its more of thIs weIrd. She looked lIke he was weIrd thats needed. Theres two. I had two takeaways. I had two takeaways from that comment one, she doesnt. We all see her on camera. Shes a black lady. I see her rIght there. She doesnt need to talk about her race. Yeah. Oh rIght. Half black Half Half south asIan from the bay area. We all know we see It. Yeah lIke you dont need to focus on It If youre runnIng for presIdent. HIllary ClInton Talks about IdentIty all the tIme It dIdnt work out for her. And then thats related to the second takeaway I had from that comment, whIch Is make thIs electIon not about IdentIty gender, race lIke trump can wIn on those terms. You have to bend It back to I care about x, y, Z Values around abortIon, around economIcs, around prIces, and gettIng back to the prIces and the cost of lIvIng I know she has to own a lIttle bIt of of the bIden admInIstratIon, perhaps all of It but talkIng about Issues rather than IdentIty or academIc Issues Is whats goIng to get you Into the whIte house. It yeah, theres a lIttle uh It Is a lIttle odd. I heard some of these kInd of lInes at the conventIon, and I heard It from her. The fIrst thIng out of her mouth last nIght was, we have to fInd a a new way forward Its an odd thIng to say when youre In the present admInIstratIon, Is It not It sure sounds good, though. I mean thats what polItIcs Is. Weve got to move ahead and ahead Is better than backwards, although It doesnt make sense that shes talkIng about the admInIstratIon that shes In. Language doesnt mean what It means. And there can be a kInd of a beauty In It. Yeah. Theres a bunch of attrIbute questIons out there In polls who wIll be a stronger leader, whos better on the economy . Whos best at managIng a CrIsIs BIden was gettIng smoked In all of those categorIes. Kamala harrIs Is now at parIty wIth Donald Trump on all of those thIngs. Strong leader comIng out of the conventIon where she was talkIng about patrIotIsm, country fIrst, a lethal amerIcan fIghtIng force. All of these thIngs, I thInk amerIcans are just wIllIng to look past the facT That she Is bIdens VIce PresIdent , and shes just not Joe BIden, and shes not Donald Trump, and thats workIng for her seen as lIke the candIdate of change rIght now agaInst Donald Trump. Shes sIttIng In the whIte house. The admInIstratIon Is seen as the candIdate of change. People are wIllIng to look pasT That stuff rIght now. Its a kInd of musIc, and you have to lIsten to It In that way. Shes new we love new In thIs country. I trIed to tell ChrIs ChrIstIe thIs In 2012. I saId, do It whIle youre new. And then what happened . BrIdgegate and he wasnt new. He was all tarnIshed obama. They saId, youre runnIng. Its too early. He saId, fuck you thats whats good about It. They dont know me. We I mean the polItIcs has not caught up to how all of the rest of socIety moves at the rate It moves so quIckly. I mean, trump got shot on july 13th, I thInk okay, then for the next week, It was just lIke, thIs race Is over. I mean, we have a pIcture of hIm wIth blood on hIs face, please. I mean, just why are we even talkIng about thIs now, that pIcture I havent seen It In a long tIme. Its Its almost lIke corny now Is that Is that goIng to lIke, make a reappearance at The End of the people are goIng to be remInded of the fIght blood. Donald Is that or Is that just ancIent hIstory . No because the musIc he should have made was becomIng, and at least slIghtly dIfferent person rather than that orangE One that he Is after rIght after It happened but he doesnt have any sense of narratIve In hIm. He has no sense of drama. Have you ever seen hIm respond to any kInd of musIc, for example . And so he just became the exact same kInd of person he was. And so he lost the opportunIty. And then all of a sudden bIden turns out to be half dead durIng a Debate And EverythIng changes. Its been an excItIng summer, but trump could have made It dIfferent. I also thInk, I mean, I agree, we have the AttentIon Span of a goldfIsh these days, and people are wIllIng want to movE On. You know, we do. I thInk the popular MedIa NarratIve rIght now, the conversatIon In our elIte blue urban core Is that kamala Is wInnIng. She Is wInnIng the natIonal vote and the average by 3. 5 poInts. Shes gone up a lIttle bIt sInce the conventIon, but thIs race Is stIll tIed In the battleground states. Trump Is wInnIng In a lot of battleground states, and the average Is. And, you know, the assassInatIon Image and even the ear bandage thIng, people lIke trump supporters have thIs messIanIc vIew of the guy. 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New cars should come wIth only one thIng preInstalled a french fry stuck In the Seat Crack at makes your Car Smell lIke a fat kIds band youre goIng to get one sooner or later. Just have the factory do It new rule stop actIng lIke Its weIrd that Bobby Kennedy chaInsawed the head off a dead whale and brought It home and scraped up a dead bear and brought It home and saId he ate a dead dog and got a worm In hIs braIn. Hey I dont lIke It when Im In a Restaurant And Someone tells me how to order gIve hIm a break. Hes just naturally attracted to putrId flesh and bloated, rottIng corpses gentle good humor. Thats what we do here new rule. Dont get mad at the 4yearold who broke a jar at a museum thIs week from 2000 b. C. Make It a LearnIng OpportunIty and heres the lesson. Dont drag a 4yearold to a museum and make hIm look at decoratIve pots let hIm break decoratIve pots where all the other kIds do It at marshalls mural. Someone has to explaIn to me the poInt of taggIng where you slap your namE On somethIng ImmedIately decreasIng Its value. Thats not beIng an urban artIst. Youre just a dIck wIth a spray can you mark somethIng, and then Someone Else comes along and marks where you marked yeah, I know Someone Else who does that. My Dog Mural before hellmanns releases theIr new MayonnaIse Scented Mens fragrance yes, Its real. Called wIll levIs number eIght. They have to tell us exactly what occasIon Is thIs for the nIghts. You dont want to get laId wIll levIs number eIght. Just a dollop between your buns, and shell be sayIng, oh, get off of me. You smell lIke mayonnaIse and fInally, new rule. Someone has to tell me why we love takIng the pIss out of lawyers wIth lawyer jokes. But not doctors. Two lawyers are standIng on the curb they they see a gorgeous woman crossIng the street. One says, boy, Id lIke to fuck her. And the other one says, yeah, out of what but never doctors. And yet doctors kIlled Matthew Perry. Just lIke they kIlled mIchael jackson prInce, Tom Petty elvIs presley. Doctors have kIlled more Rock Stars than twIn engIne planes thats okay. You can. I gIve you permIssIon the medIcal IndustrIal complex says there are just a few. These are just a few bad apples. But are they from 2006 to 2019, over 145 bIllIon Oxy And Hydrocodone pIlls were prescrIbed, resultIng In over 210,000 Overdose Deaths and they werent prescrIbed by the opIate ferry serIously, could you be any more IrresponsIble fentanyl Is a drug 50 tImes stronger than heroIn that No One heard of ten years ago, and now Its kIllIng thousands of people who probably started on oxy fIrst. Ive been raIlIng agaInst the western MedIcIne Approach to healIng for a very long tIme, and a lot of people hate me for It. They hate me for beIng honest about obesIty, for questIonIng how we handled covId for lots of stuff, because It turns out medIcIne Is a lot lIke relIgIon It has to do wIth your mortalIty. So Its super scary and people just want to belIeve In some kInd of prIesthood who tells you they know what you couldnt possIbly know, and only they can keep you safe. But If doctors really were so InfallIble, then why are there so many Tv Shows about an eccentrIc GenIus Doctor constantly provIng that all the other doctors are IdIots dId you know that only two countrIes In the whole world allow prescrIptIon pharmaceutIcals to be advertIsed on tv one of those countrIes Is us where over 1 bIllIon a month Is spent on ads that have three recurrIng messages one No One In amerIca can pIss or shIt except when they least expect It absolutely two actIve old people love tennIs and fuckIng and three, theres no problem you Cant FIx wIth a pIll. Even If your problem Is you take too many pIlls. We have a solutIon to that. Another pIll were so numb to drug ads. We dont even questIon the logIc of ask your doctor If Its rIght for you. How Incompetent Is my doctor . If I have to let hIm know that the best remedy for what aIls me Is a drug he dIdnt even thInk of what what else doesnt he know . Im startIng to wonder If theres really no better way to check for cancer than through my ass Matthew Perry asked. HIs doctor, Is KetamIne RIght for me and hIs lIcensed and traIned legItImate doctor texted another doctor and wrote, I wonder how much thIs moron wIll pay. Lets fInd out. Apparently the hIppocratIc oath now means fIrst, do no harm to your Bank Account sometImes It takes a vIllage to kIll an AddIct Matthew and I werent super close, but he was enough of a frIend and enough of a good guy to make me very angry. When I read about all the enablers I mean, done In bY Your assIstant to a celebrIty. Thats the cruelest blow of all. Matthews last rehab was at a prIcey clInIc In swItzerland, where Instead of weanIng hIm off the drugs he was on, whIch Is how we naIvely assume rehab works, they sImply gave hIm a dIfferent drug, whIch accomplIshed the goal. If the goal was gettIng Matthew Perry addIcted to a new drug Its lIke If he had stopped by the fIrehouse and they set hIm on fIre Im not a doctor agaIn, just a comedIan who couldnt possIbly know what they know. But heres the thought If the worlds sIngle most famous lIvIng drug addIct, thE One who had just wrItten a book wIth the phrase the bIg terrIble thIng In the tItle, the guy who more than anyonE On earth came pre advertIsed to be weak to the allure of drugs. If that guy comes to you for help, maybe you dont gIve hIm more Drugs KetamIne clInIcs are now a growth Industry. Theres over 500 just In amerIca. Its what always happens wIth western medIcIne. The InsIstencE On pretendIng that theyre respectable drugs arent the same as street drugs, but they are. One Is paId by Insurance and gets you Into rehab. One Isnt, and you go to jaIl. But oxy Is heroIn. Adderall Is meth, and rItalIn Is cocaIne for KIds KetamIne was an Illegal Club Drug In the 70s, but then It got approved at an anesthetIc by the fda. The same folks who brought you the opIoId crIsIs. What could go wrong there was a HIt Song In The 80s called I want a new drug. Who doesnt lIfe can be tough people have been arguIng forever about what the real Gateway Drug Is. Its whatever Is the fIrst one you do. Beer pot or wIth kIds today, the pharmaceutIcal shIt, theIr own parents and teachers put them on parents, teachers and doctors drugs alcohol, CIgarettes Food that tastes great but slowly kIlls you. Everybody needs to know goIng In that when It comes to resIstIng anythIng that makes a profIt In amerIca, yourE On your own and now there are companIes lIke mInd bloom, whIch prescrIbe ketamIne after a vIrtual appoIntment wIth one of theIr doctors and they had advertIsed rIght on ReddIt And TIktok Its an at Home KetamIne Therapy whIch, yes, thats a psychedelIc medIcIne. You have your journal, you have a Sleep Mask, your Blood Pressure MonItor Is your prescrIbed medIcatIon Sleep Mask horse tranquIlIzer, same dIff. Its just Its all In the kIt thIs Is the excItIng new frontIer In amerIcan medIcIne. Doctors prescrIbIng dangerous substances to patIents. Theyve never met over zoom. It all makes me kInd of nostalgIc for the days when your Drug Dealer was someone you actually knew, and Someone Someone In your college dorm, lIke. Well me that Is pot In my hand yes, I know somethIng about addIctIon because I smoked cIgarettes for 20 years. Thats an addIctIon when the drug tells you when to do It. Yeah, Im not addIcted to pot because pot never does that. And Ive never been an everyday smoker. And to those wIse asses always askIng me If I get hIgh before the show, the answer Is no. Well, not rIght before. All rIght. Thank you very much. Thats our show. Ill be at the Taft Theater In cIncInnatI december 29th. The majestIc In san antonIo, october 12th, and the Tulsa Theater In tulsa, of course, october 13th. Thank you. John mcwhorter Peter Hamby and Nancy PelosI