Overtime – Episode #629: David Sedaris, Scott Galloway, and Annie Lowrey

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

Okay, here we are on CNN with our panelists this week.

David Sederis is over here with his new book out.

Professor of Marketing at New York CERN School of Business, Scott Galloway, and the great writer for the Atlantic, Andy Lowry.

And here are the things that people want to know about.

Okay, a group of conservatives recently said they want to create an AI chatbot of their own

to combat liberal bias.

Can we, well, I've heard there was liberal bias.

I heard, I've read that, that chatbot is a little woke.

Can we expect AI to be used as a political weapon in the near future?

I think it already is.

I mean, it's funny that you create something that is supposed to be smarter than everybody and above it all, and immediately we're breaking down into, you know, we're going to, that's what it's going to be.

You're going to have the liberal chatbot and the conservative, right?

Yeah, and there's some myths.

Like traditional media, I think it's hard to argue that there isn't oftentimes a liberal bias because it's mostly overeducated people in urban centers.

But with respect to new media and technology-driven media, there's no evidence that there's any sort of bias.

They don't lean left, they don't lean right, they lean green.

They're all about money.

They really don't care.

As a matter of fact, seven of the ten each day, the most viral pieces of content are usually from conservative commentators.

So there's just no truth to the notion that at least online media has a conservative bias.

Hmm.

I know people.

Oh, all right.

David, is there any material you wouldn't perform in red states?

Oh.

You know, I think I've heard you say this before.

You know, I'll go to Oklahoma and people say, who was there?

And it's like

everybody who didn't vote Republican is there.

So I don't know.

Or that there are some who did.

I hope they all come.

I welcome everybody in my,

and I'm sure you do too.

I don't like it no

no no I do I but I don't like you know like sometimes you do a show and you get a laugh from people and you think eh that didn't feel right to me I don't want to pander to the audience no you know I don't want to so I'm happy to go to a red state right and and quite frankly there is more to make fun of on the left in the last five years I mean I'm seeing it I see it in your book too you know people ask me that all the time why do you make fun of the left more because you're providing comedy for a comedian.

That's what you're.

Yeah.

So it's the blue archipelago, right?

All the cities are blue.

If you just want to talk to Democrats, you just go to cities, right?

Regardless of the state.

Exactly.

I mean, Alabama.

I've been, I played Mobile, Alabama.

Yeah, the only thing, you got to bring your own hotel, though, when you go to

that state in Columbia, L.A.

One of the times I was in Alabama, I swear, there was a bass fishing something

the same night.

And I was going out to the show.

And there was a crowd, I swear to God, there was a large crowd walking one way that I could tell was for the bass fishing.

I won't go into details.

And then my crowd was going in the opposite direction, and it could have been any city in the country.

So, I mean, and that's Alabama.

Okay, what do you make of

G and Putin's meeting?

Well, boy, they exchanged friendship bracelets, didn't they?

Gee and Putin.

You go first, but then I will tell you.

I think that's the biggest and scariest news of the week.

While we're all scared about, I don't know, we're worried about trans swimmers or worried about our kid marrying a Republican, the real threat is an Axis power forming between Russia and China, and it should be scary.

China,

you know, China of today is different than China 10 years ago, and they're not a competitor.

They're adversaries and maybe even enemies.

The swing boat will be India, but we should absolutely be...

It should have sent chills down the spine of every American seeing those two together.

Well, I mean, I was mentioning on the

show that

in the 20th anniversary of the Iraq war,

I think this is a result of that.

I think,

you know, when, well, in the sense that Xi and Putin see America, they saw 20 years ago we invaded a sovereign country.

I mean, we would make the case that we had reasons that Putin doesn't have in going into Ukraine, but that's not how they see it.

So their view is, and yes, China and Russia never had any love for each other.

Even during the Cold War, when they were both communists and they should have been allied closer, it was very frosty.

But their idea is we have to just be, number one is to be anti-America.

America is the one that's trying to bully the world.

We've seen it over and over again, and we have to line up against them.

That, I think, is the scary part, is because they're going to get more people to join in on that premise.

Yeah, and I think that there's the eternal folly that wars are won quickly, which we learned twice that that wasn't true recently.

And I think that the Russian engagement in Ukraine is going to last for many, many, many, many, many years to come, weakening that state considerably.

And it's terrifying.

I don't know.

Okay.

A school principal at a Florida school recently resigned after parents complained that students were shown Michelangelo's David.

Oh.

It's a nice sculpture.

Was it really appropriate, or just an example, of parents being too fragile about what their kids are taught in schools?

Wait, was this principal had to resign because he shot David is a great work of art?

Now, yes, the dick is out.

But,

well, it is.

And it was no bigger than the students.

I was going to say, it would probably bolster the confidence of a sixth grader.

Yeah.

I mean that's a very,

you know, the name of that statue should be it was cold out.

I serve on the board of my kids' school in Florida and the notion that we're trying to pull the gay or the straight out of them is just ridiculous.

Schools aren't trying to turn kids into woesters.

We're trying to turn them into warriors.

And these culture wars that divide us and use schools as weapons to inflame some weird imaginary problem in schools.

It's just, it's another example of instead of working on the things that actually affect us, people want to figure out what offends us so they can raise money.

It's a bullshit topic.

Yeah, it's um

you know the

CNN, watch your mouth.

Oh sorry.

Keep your swear words out of your mouth.

You know, the Southern strategy is the most effective political strategy that we've seen deployed deployed in the United States in the past hundred years.

And I think that we are seeing Republicans attempt to turn anti-trans legislation, anti-LGBTQ legislation into a kind of version of the Southern strategy that whips voters up.

And I think that it remains to be seen how that, you know, certainly in the midterms it didn't seem to work terribly well, but of course, what's at risk is the health and safety of children and the rights of Americans to live how they want and love who they want.

So, yeah, it's awful.

Okay,

Kirsten Cinema.

Kristen or Kirsten?

Kirsten.

Kirsten.

Kirsten.

Okay.

Kirsten, see?

I got it.

Kirsten Cinema.

She's the senator from Arizona.

She's now an independent, right?

She was elected as a Democrat, but was not quite Democratic enough for the party or liberal enough, so she's an independent.

Recently said she's not going to eat in the cafeteria anymore because it's just

old dudes eating jello.

Did you hear No.

Well, I'm telling you.

See, aren't you glad you're listening to this show?

You know what?

I lost so much weight eating Diet Jello.

Really?

Jell-O's great.

I don't think that's the point she was going for,

but

as a tangential topic.

It's regular jello.

Well, sure, it's all sugar, like everything else in it.

But diet jello, it's 40 calories for the whole box.

And you're feeling hungry, and you eat two boxes of jell-o and you're full and that's 80 calories.

Jello.

We drink it here on CNN.

We haven't.

Okay.

All right.

It's got to be.

Any thoughts on the old people drinking Jell-O?

Because you're

fucking.

I think

what you were saying is that our elected representatives are probably not representative of America.

The average age of American is 38, the average age of an elected representative is 64, meaning every time someone like AOC is elected to Congress, someone else is dead.

I mean, it's

we, and what do you know, cost of living adjustment, biggest in history for Social Security recipients, and the tax credit, the child tax credit gets stripped out of the bill.

We don't have a representative government.

We have basically people who are much older running our government.

We need more youth.

We have the second oldest elected populace.

We don't have a representative government.

I'd also say

cinema is one of the few politicians, I think, on the Hill who retains a capacity to surprise.

And,

you know, that is the feel of it.

I would also kind of like to tell it like it is.

I mean,

I don't think she was making so much of a political statement as just saying, I don't want to eat with Stenny Hoyer.

Yeah.

I think a lot of members of Congress don't necessarily want to sit down and eat with Kirsten Cinema at this point either.

All right.

But we love all politicians in this show, but we have to be mindful of advertisements here on CNN.

So eat your jello and we'll see you next week.

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