My first hate watch type podcast I listened to was “The West Wing Thing” and Dave from that podcast would often squirm like a slug who had salt thrown on it when they mentioned Bill Mayer in person. I’m in Australia, so this show wasn’t really on anywhere regularly, maybe cable tv ? But like Will has said, everyone has heard of Bill somewhere . I also remeber being somewhat into the new atheism stuff and seeing the trainer for his religious movie but never caught the whole thing. I remember seeing eps of Real Time on YouTube or somewhere and always feeling like it was pretty mid and disorganised but I never had enough ways to watch it weekly. Anyways, the podcast! It’s fun, it’s a blast from the past and I can see why Bill Maher needs to be hated. What’s most perplexing is how he keeps getting work. I worry for Will ( the podcast host ) when he is doing a show without a guest, he gets too upset , a little like Dave Anthony on the west wing thing but he could get that way about Aaron sorkin at any point in his podcast. That podcast had an ultimate alternate reason for exisiting. It was a big old smear campaign and payback at Aaron Sorkin for being a terrible head of the screenwriters guild and the podcast also had the secondary role of radicalising liberals to the left by whaling on the Democratic Party which was quite successful, it opened my eyes to how screwed American politics are and also how bad my own countries is though we aren’t as far down the road as the USA yet, a lot of people want us to get there! So yes I was saying that I worry about Will, when you’re on your own you get very upset sometimes , what Im trying to say is I’m not sure exactly what the true purpose of this podcast is. It’s entertaining but is it a good use of your time? Maybe go talk to your wife, you’ve made enough , you are correct, Bill Maher is horrible, move on with your life.
