I Hate Bill Maher

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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