Welcome back to Chester's news wrap.
Bill Maher has done it all from comedian to actor, political commentator,
television host and now podcast host club random with Bill
Maher features a wide variety of guests from Quentin Tarantino,
mike, Tyson jimmy Kimmel for a series of hour long, one on one conversations
joining me Now is Bill Maher himself. Bill, I'm such a fan, Welcome to the show.
Thank you so much for coming on.
Thank you for having me. Of course.
Why did you decide to get into the world of podcasting?
Well it's the law.
Everyone
has one. It's true.
I didn't want to be dragging my feet.
No, I, I just, you know what, I resisted it for the longest time, which was silly,
but people kept telling me like when I was out to dinner,
you're so interesting on all these other topics that you never get
to on real time because it's basically a purely political show.
Um why don't you do a podcast?
So I thought, you know, I have a great place to do it,
which is what we're looking at now.
I have this little crazy rats color in my
property that sort of became the party house.
It's kind of like a little nightclub and I thought, you know, I could build this,
I could put the cameras in the walls,
I could kind of reinvent how they do podcasts
because I think most of podcasting looks horrible.
It's just in somebody's house or something. It doesn't have any production value.
I said this place has a real charm to it.
If I built the cameras into the walls, just like the big brother house,
I could kind of like,
combined podcasting with reality television have
just me and the person I'm talking
to it in this room and then we would be having a drink,
we might be smoking a jazz cigarette if you will.
And I think you could get something out of people that
we're not seeing and that's how it's pretty much worked out.
I'm looking at the guests and some of the clips from your show,
This looks like a fun time by the way behind you.
I just want to check, is that a pole behind you?
That is a poll that
I just wanted to confirm,
I thought it was and I wanted to make sure so some people might call it a stripper pole.
Let's just say it's an all purpose pole, but it just fit there.
You know, I had also seeing the sign from my old show, politically incorrect,
which just fit there.
The whole point why this got to be called Club random.
Is that everything in here is very random because I don't live here. I live next door.
Okay,
lucky enough to get this property which is next to me and there
was this funky place that was here and it was kind of dilapidated,
but I said there's something about it.
It's just, it's just kind of vibe to it.
It's sort of this underground bunker where you could
really have a party and not feel like you,
you could ever get so messed up that
you're ruining anything here because whenever you spilled,
it would only make it better.
So everything that wound up here is stuff that wouldn't be in my real house,
not that my real belongs in
design magazine, but it's,
this has like the crazy stuff that didn't fit anywhere else.
And so where else was I gonna put that sign or you know,
and then the pole just kind of fit.
I have to say, it's very cool. That looks like a very cool spot.
And I know I'm only seeing a small section of it.
What has been,
what have been some of your favorite conversations or guests on the podcast so far,
because you've really interviewed everyone in your career,
but who was your favorite, at least on the podcast?
Well,
I never say favorites because that everybody you don't mention is very mad at you.
And, and also, honestly, I'm so high, I don't remember who the people are.
I don't remember what we were talking about, that sort of the charm of this show.
The other reason I wanted to do this is because my I show my real show real time.
That's what I work on all week. I work very hard.
I want to make it exactly the show I want to do.
I mean, there's some written elements that, I mean,
just the last 10 minutes of the show, new rules into the editorial.
I do I probably spent 20 hours working on something. It takes 10 minutes.
Um and the people who are on real time are, you know, sometimes very serious people,
senators and governors and people like that.
You know, you can't be in the kind of frame of mind, I mean to do this show. Um
but this show, that's the charm of this show.
It's not mostly political, it's whatever we're going to talk about.
I have no agenda, I have no planning, I barely know who the guest is when I walk in,
I just walk in that door and I think what I'm trying to
prove every week is that I can talk to anybody for an hour.
Uh And you know,
luckily the producers have provided me with wonderful people to talk to.
Really fun, interesting and almost all universally famous people.
So it's not like I'm working with the D team here.
Um but it's been a pleasure to sit down with
people many of whom I've known for years but never
really knew and it's amazing after an hour here in
this setting uh with a couple of drinks etcetera,
I do mean etcetera, wink, wink.
Um we really know each other and there's something fun
to watching people kind of get to know each other,
even fall in love in a completely platonic way on camera
and I think that's what you see on this show.
You know, I followed your career for such a long time.
I know for a fact you can talk to anybody for an hour,
but to bring all these elements in, this seems like a fun podcast.
And that actually leads me to my next question.
Why do you think your podcast is resonating with your audience particularly gen z?
They're loving this?
Well, because I think you just said it, it's funny. I don't find most podcasts funny.
I mean, there's a couple, there's some funny people doing,
doing podcasts out there not to take anything away from them,
but nothing has a nighttime feel
uh, they all look like they're taped in the day, uh, completely sober, you know,
a couple of times.
I mean, joe Rogan will light up a joint I did when I was doing his show there.
Um, but it's not like a nighttime atmosphere. Uh, this has that kind of night time.
We're in a club, you can hear the people said to me, I can hear the glasses clinking,
I can hear the ice, I can hear the drinks being poured.
It makes me feel like I'm out with people,
the people you're talking to and we're just
having this good time and it's very relaxed.
I mean, look, the younger generation,
that's the time in your life. If you're not partying, you should be
Listen to me kids, get out there and party,
this is the time because then you're gonna get married.
You know, taxes, you have kids, you have a mortgage,
people could be yelling at you boss, you're not gonna be free as you are,
luckily I serve as a kind of a example for them.
I've never been married, never had kids.
So like I don't have those strictures on me,
I can keep partying till I'm 100 and I plan to.
Um but that I think is the part of the appeal is that there's no agenda.
We're just at a nightclub doing what we do, just talking and you know,
getting a little wasted and it recapitulates their life.
Bill, I have to say for many of us, you are living the dream life.
It's such a pleasure to talk to you.
Like I mentioned, I'm a huge fan, I have been for decades. Thank you for coming on.
Bill Maher, host of the podcast, Club Random with Bill Maher. Thank you