140 episodes
Club Random with Bill Maher Club Random w/Bill Maher
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4.2 • 2.9K Ratings
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Bill Maher rewrites the rules of podcasting the way he did in television in this series of one on one, hour long conversations with a wide variety of unexpected guests in the undisclosed location called Club Random. There’s a whole big world out there that isn’t about politics and Bill and his guests talk about all of it.
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John Fogerty | Club Random with Bill Maher
It’s a Creedence Clearwater Revival. Bill and John Fogerty on John’s goal of making songs that sound good in a car, when John sang on The Ed Sullivan Show, the subversive messages in John’s songs, John gives Bill his signature flannel shirt Fortunate Son, the working class appeal of certain music then and now, the incredible longevity of Mick Jagger, the leap from popular band to legendary band, the Woodstock that broke bad, John’s love of the Grateful Dead, and much, much more.
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Listen Now: The Sage Steele Show with Matt Barnes
Sage Steele and Matt Barnes on the top ten players to get technical fouls in the NBA, the truth behind Matt’s recent incident at the high school, Matt’s attitude on playing the villain on the court, Matt’s favorite player ever in the NBA, succeeding at life after basketball, Matt’s incredibly tough upbringing, the hypocrisy of the NBA’s substance testing policy, Matt’s podcast network, getting booed in front of his kids, and much much more.
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Katie Couric | Club Random with Bill Maher
Bill and Katie Couric on Bill’s Today Show appearance and what Katie said about Bill on a hot mic, what’s in that dropper Bill puts in his soda water, Bill’s gift to his longtime employees, Katie’s review of Bill’s new book, why the loudest, meanest voices are the ones that get heard, the astrological sign of Jesus, doing Club Random vs. Real Time, the genius of Andy Warhol’s fame prediction, the complete lack of trust in the media, Mr. Beast trying to cure peoples’ ills, and much, much more.
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Listen Now: The Sage Steele Show with Gina Carano
Sage Steele and Gina Carano on what it feels like to sue Disney, how Elon Musk came to Gina’s defense, how conflict can be better handled at the corporate level, the odd timing of corporate resignations, the hypocrisy of hiring practices, the smear campaign against Gina, Gina’s rock through all of her travails, Sage having her livelihood threatened, being “sidelined” vs. fired, the healing power of the gym, and so much more!
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Billy Dee Williams | Club Random with Bill Maher
Bill and Billy Dee Williams on the difference between cockiness and arrogance, A.I. making us live longer, Billy’s storied career, Billy’s new book on his very colorful life, why certain people with tough upbringings turn out fine, the big bang theory, Billy’s Lawrence Olivier moment, the different schools of acting, and George Carlin’s influence on Bill Maher regarding religion.
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Listen Now: The Sage Steele Show with Drea de Matteo
Sage Steele and Drea de Matteo on the reason for Drea’s Only Fans journey, Drea’s crazy childhood, the things you need to do every day for a happy life, getting along despite political differences, the friends Drea lost with her choices, the power of forgiveness, how Drea’s Sopranos character was a rat, why Drea’s house is covered in crucifixes, why liberal Drea likes Tucker Carlson, and Drea’s new clothing brand Ultra Free.
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Customer Reviews
A gem of an episode with John Cleese
I’ve always suspected that the most successful comedians are serious intellectuals, and this episode is proof. John and Bill are delightful in their wide-ranging discourse, demonstrating genuine curiosity about the world. And as an alumnus of Cornell University I was taken back to my freshman year at the cold, dreary (but ultimately wonderful) university on the hill. Bill, I too, contemplated leaving after my first year, completely convinced I had no business being there (the school of architecture was particularly rough)!
Sage Steele
Bill and the pod are great, but the continued efforts to force feed Sage Steele’s podcast are beyond annoying. She is a whiny professional victim. She is literally everything Bill purports to dislike about today’s society, but he keeps putting her vapid show in his feed. JUST STOP!
This show is a mess
I've long enjoyed Real Time as one of the few media venues where people who disagree engage in something approximating open and honest discussion, seasoned with some pretty shrewd (and funny) political commentary from Maher.
This is not that. Rather, this seems to be an expression of Maher's apparent obsession with celebrity. The guests are frequently vapid and uninteresting, leading me to skip the majority of episodes. But even when the guests are worth listening to, Maher often gets so high and tipsy that he literally can't track the conversation. He'll make a point or a joke, the guest will respond to it, and Maher reacts like he has no idea what they are talking about or how they even got on the subject. It's frankly a bit embarrassing--and more than a little frustrating--as a listener, made worse still by the cloying neediness of the man as he sweats all over his famous guests, grasping for a word of approval.
Maher's habit of mistaking his own level of conviction over a position as an objective gauge of its accuracy is also on full display here. That seems to get tamped down a bit on Real Time, but here you get to seem him have a sort of a reactionary fit any time his various anti-science views come up.