Comedian/Writer/Long time close fiend (intentional) Eliza Skinner joins the show to talk about a parent's love (for Maher). We also explore whether or not Bill Maher likes... anything, really??? I'll be honest, I'm insanely exhausted trying to write this description right now and I just truly have no mental energy to do anything. That's why this episode was so late, I had a lot to get done. Okay?! Fuck!!!!!Anyway, Eliza's great, very funny. Goodnight!

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CONTENT WARNING: Roman Polanski comes up in the context of his horrible crimes, and while we don't mention the specifics, we do mention Bill Maher mentioning the specifics.

Finally, I get another absolute pervert for Bill Maher on here. Comedian John Hastings joins me to talk about his theory on modern grift culture's role in Real Time's resurgence, the complete and total absence of effort throughout Bill Maher's entire career, and a tonally bizarre episode of Real Time that gets completely fucked up by an absurdly inappropriate throwaway joke. But on the upside, it's the least amount of sexism from Bill so far. So, I don't know, that's good...?

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P.S. I told you I would sound better and it would be on time this week. Each of you owes me twenty dollars.

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I don't want to go on a rant here, but this week writer Sophia Benoit really gets tossed into the Real Time meat grinder when she's given an episode to discuss that has Dennis Miller on the panel. Has experiencing her mother and former step-father's Bill Maher fandom as a teen prepared her for such an experience, or will she suffer the same amount of psychic damage that Dennis Miller himself does when Arianna Huffington takes a pretty mild shot at him. Also, the evils of American Pie.

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Oh, also this should be the last week that my sound is bad and that the episode is so late, since I got a new mic and that means I won't have to spend so much time attempting to tweak every God damn thing I said during the recording. Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.

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