Overtime – Episode #700: Dave Barry, Rep. Wesley Hunt, Paul Begala

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Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO Late Night Series, Real Time with Bill Maher.

All right, who are with our panel?

A humorous is non-memoirist, new memoirist world-class crown, Dave Barry, and he's a Democratic strategist and CNN political contributor, Paul Bogawa, and the Republican congressman from the 38th in Texas, Wesley Hunts.

Okay.

For the panel, what is the panel's reaction to Arnold Schwarzenegger saying that immigrants should behave like guests?

Well, they're truncating that a little, but that is basically what he said.

And he is, of course, an immigrant himself.

He came here with nothing but a loincloth and a a jar of

protein powder.

And look how far he goes.

I'm not mad at it.

I'm not mad at it.

I completely agree.

Okay, good.

And someone should tell Elon Musk.

This country took Mr.

Musk in.

We gave him freedom.

We gave him an opportunity.

We gave him $465 million of a loan under Barack Obama.

By the way, he paid back early.

I give him credit for that.

But we made him the richest man in the world.

All he does is dump on America.

So he ought to be a pretty good guest, too.

I don't like Mr.

Mark.

I think Schwarzenegger should learn to speak English.

Going down.

Get down.

If he wants to stay on you.

Okay.

This is for you, Dave.

What do you make of the Californians who are moving to Florida?

There is a...

And

neighborhood, I have Californians moving in.

We have lots of people coming.

Everyone makes fun of Florida.

Florida has got a bad reputation.

But I mean, think about it: there are 23 million people in Florida.

And is it fair to judge 23 million people because of the behavior of 21 million people?

But they are lured.

They come for the culture by which I mean we have no state income tax.

And they like that.

They like that a lot.

That's what I mean.

He's not a humorist.

He's a comic.

He's funny.

You know, there's the difference between a humorist and LLL.

Okay.

For Wesley, what was behind the rightward shift of black men toward Trump in the last election?

I think I touched on that a little bit.

I think whenever you have a candidate like Kamala Harris, that clearly was not the choice of the Democrat Party, when she got shoehorned into that space, and then you tried to roll out Megan Three Stallion and Lil John the Eastside Boys, everybody else tried to say, hey, hey, black men, let's vote for this now.

I mean, it just really didn't work.

Well, most of them still did.

Well,

one in three black men.

One in three black men in the state of Texas voted for President Trump.

Okay, well, that's East men and in the state.

Well,

I'm being very specific here because it does matter.

We are seeing a seismic shift, and that's the most vote, the highest vote that we got in the Republican Party in the history of...

No doubt about it.

Trump did better with minorities across the board each time he ran, including the time he lost.

He fought.

You can ask me if I thought that's it.

Oh, come on.

But, you know, he does want to like take Trump putting the Robert E.

Lee name back on buildings.

I mean, are you down with that?

So when I was at West Point, I actually lived in Robert E.

Lee barracks when I was there.

And as I said.

Robert E.

Lee went to West Point.

Yes, he did.

That's why the barracks are named after him.

And so my brother, sister, and I all matriculated through West Point.

We all graduated.

And I will never forget walking under the threshold of Robert E.

Lee Barracks and thinking to myself, damn, this is one hell of a country.

Because only in America can someone like me walk into a building named after a Confederate general and then be a successful West Point graduate.

If we start changing the names on buildings, then every single building would be named Jesus Christ based on perfection.

Let's talk about where we have come from.

Well, maybe not to you,

but to us.

Maybe not to you, but to us.

I don't know about Moses.

I bring that up because I want to talk about the progress and the idea of us changing names on buildings actually doesn't take harkeness back to times where they weren't as good.

And that's what I'm saying.

And how can we not?

Oh, I am, my wife is, I've been black my whole life.

Yes.

So far.

Still,

my wife is white, and we have three biracial children.

And I cannot wait to show them and take them to places that that wasn't always the case.

There was a time when your mother and daddy could not be married.

My children are going to have the opportunity to be second-lining down in New Orleans, and then my wife is from Iowa.

They'll be on the farm with their grandfather in Iowa.

That is America, and I do not want to take down these statues and change the names of these buildings because they're a reminder of what was.

And if we don't remember it, we are doomed to repeat it.

So there's a reason for it, I see.

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What did you think of Whoopi Goldberg saying

it's worse to be a black person in America today than a woman in Iran?

You know, I say we were talking about the trans issue before, and the New York Times really has come over on that to the sort of the sensible, liberal, not crazy woke position.

I think this is a great first step toward getting the Democrats back to sanity.

And a second good step would be, we've got to do something about the view.

I really believe that.

I mean,

it's huge in Iran, though.

You know,

imagine the view in Iran.

You can't even tell which one is which.

My district in the great state of Texas is actually a white majority district that President Trump would have won by 25 points.

As I said, I'm a direct descendant of a slave.

My great-great-grandfather was born on a Rose Down plantation.

I am literally being judged not by the color of my skin, but by the content of my character.

That's the progress because like a lot of white people had to vote for me.

A lot.

So I don't even ever want to hear Whoopi Goldberg's conversation about how it's worse to be black in America right now.

That's a bit far.

And my father, who's 75 years old, he was a man that was in the French quarters that had to go get a sandwich to the back door of the building.

And his son is now a United States congressman in a white majority district in Texas as a Republican.

That is America.

That's America.

So let's celebrate that.

Yes, and one of the ways we celebrate it

is Juneteenth.

It's a Texas holiday.

It began in Texas in Galveston.

Galveston, Galveston.

General Granger came and read the order number three that finally abolished slavery months after the war because the word took a time to get to Galveston.

We celebrated that when I was a kid in Texas, but it becomes national a year or two ago.

And Donald Trump doesn't want to celebrate that.

To me, it's exactly what you're talking about.

It said 600,000 people died so that we wouldn't enslave people anymore.

And the fact that

freedom won is a good thing, and we should honor that.

That's what Juneteenth's about.

And I don't know why

President Trump doesn't want to honor that.

So I don't want it.

I don't want Black History Month.

I don't want all these days for make everybody feel special.

I'm the 80s baby.

Everybody's too sensitive anyway.

We're all Americans anyway.

This holiday.

That's what Morgan Freeman said.

Morgan Freeman said.

I can't agree more with him.

Yeah.

He said that to Mike Wallace.

He said, you know, I'm an American.

Do you want to be called a Jew American, Mike?

No.

White people celebrate Juneteenth, too, and non-Italians celebrate Columbus Day.

I'm all for any holiday.

I'm a half Irish.

Do I get half the day off on St.

Patrick's Day?

A lot of people.

Oh, you get half drunk?

Everybody gets St.

Patrick.

Everybody gets fucked on St.

Patrick's Day.

That's a good point.

Did you have a question for the congressman there?

No, are you telling me you're black?

Yes.

We don't see color, right, Dave?

We don't see color.

I'm the Raker.

We don't see color.

All right, one more.

This is for you, Dave.

What do you make of the Lakers selling for a record $10 billion, the highest price ever paid for a pro sports team?

Oh, my God.

$10 billion.

Yes.

I mean, it's amazing.

I bought into the Mets in 2011.

So you lost.

You owned part of the Mets?

I did for 10 years.

Wow.

Mets sold 40% of the team, not all to me, to a select group of

minority investors.

And at the time, they were about to...

Oh, you're black too?

Yeah.

And like,

I was amazed that I was, I mean, it took like all the pennies I had saved my whole life, but I was like, amazed, how can I do this?

This must be so many richer people in New York.

I said, sports teams are always going to go up, especially the one in New York.

The Mets at the time, they were in the shitter, so they were undervalued at $750 million.

And they sold, and they have sold out all the, I don't own the team, part of the team anymore, because they sold a few years ago to a billionaire, for $2.4 billion.

So I made a good profit off that.

But that was only a few years ago.

And this is the New York,

New York, this is New York, that's the Hicks.

Sports franchise.

So four times that for the Lakers, $10 billion.

I don't know what the question is.

No, I just think, you know what I mean?

I've just said,

it blows my mind.

The reef is, I just, I really, I just wanted to say this is the day after Juneteenth.

I just really want to thank God that black people were allowed to play in sports because otherwise it would be valued nearly that much.

Let's be honest.

Oh, oh, if the NBA was all white, they wanted to value the NBA.

I'll tell you how you can.

It would be a good buck.

I know.

I was sitting at a Laker game with, I won't say who, because I'll say I'm name-dropping, but a big black

stone.

No, no.

And I was saying, by Bill Russell, what a great player.

And he said, yeah, he played against a lot of white guys.

All right, we're off for a summer.

Month, just one month.

He'll be back August 1st.

Thank you very much.

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