Overtime - Episode #371 (Originally aired 11/13/15)

Charlie Sheen is an icon of decadence.

I lit the fuse and my life turns into everything it wasn't supposed to be.

He's going the distance.

He was the highest paid TV star of all time.

When it started to change, it was quick.

He kept saying, no, no, no, I'm in the hospital now, but next week I'll be ready for the show.

Now, Charlie's sober.

He's gonna tell you the truth.

How do I present this with any class?

I think we're past that, Charlie.

We're past that, yeah.

Somebody call action.

Aka Charlie Sheen, only on Netflix, September 10th.

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

God, I hate liberals.

Okay, welcome back.

All right, so Michael Steele, who will be the next GOP candidate to drop out of the race?

Oh, good, good question.

That's going to be tough.

There's no incentive for anyone to get out right now.

Pataki?

The way the primary is set up.

Pataki?

The way the primary is set up.

His wife said to him this morning, you're running for president.

You got to go.

No, no, the way the primary is set up, between February 1st and March 15th, everybody gets a proportion of the vote.

So I hang in there and I get a little piece, I get a little piece, and I gather leverage at the end.

Plus, you can live in a hotel and charge meals up until the day you actually say you're out.

So if you've got a half a million bucks sitting in the bank, I might as well run for another two weeks and spaghetti.

Exactly, yes.

Sarah Palin dined on that for a long time.

Astra, how can non-Muslims support efforts of moderates?

Great question.

They can speak the truth.

Yes.

You dared to do what?

You stood in front of a hotel and you said, boycott this hotel.

Well, that wasn't that hard, really.

Right.

But you took a position, and it's not easy.

See, I have an issue with that because it's kind of tokenism.

The people who won't eat the gazpacho soup at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Okay.

You know, I mean, if they think that they have a problem, that they think that that's going to solve the problem.

No, they don't think it's going to solve the the problem.

It just shines light on the problem.

Right.

And I'll tell you what happened for me then is because you dared to do that, and then your wife dared to take on the issue of the Taliban, and that Afghanistan

early.

Then I decided that, yes,

we've got people who talk common sense and last month put a change.org petition, my first one ever, hashtag boycott Saudi.

Because

right?

And that people have to have the courage to to stand.

And make illiberal ideas socially unacceptable.

That's exactly.

So even if it comes off as elitism or all of these other names and smears that are thrown on people, take it.

Take the hit, right?

Right.

It's not that

going to kill you.

Yeah, because you have to, because did we protest when...

And also, I may say, excuse me.

Do some research.

Right.

I think a lot of Americans have no idea.

They know a Muslim in America where it's great to be a Muslim because you can be a cafeteria Muslim or you can leave the religion.

That's not the experience of the billion and a half Muslims around the world for the most part.

You can't just up and leave the religion.

You can get killed for that.

You can't just be gay.

You can get killed for that.

Yeah, I mean, so you bring spotlight on those poor atheist bloggers who are being hacked to death.

Yeah, and we're the liberals standing up for that.

And you had that great line that he said, if we were chopping heads in the Vatican Vatican Square, would we think there was something wrong with that?

Right, they chop off the heads of the homosexuals.

Yeah, so I was against the chopping off heads.

I just want to say that.

You're one of the first people to stand up.

You took a position.

It was a little wobbly, but I said no.

I think this is what.

And what we're going to do is, I know when you guys go home, you're all going to sign the petition, no all-male panels.

Each one of you.

We almost never do.

I had to put that in.

No, no.

We almost never did.

Bill wanted to hang out with the boys one night.

One night.

And I tried to the party.

JJ is transitioning.

So, again.

I'm tired.

I didn't want to bring it up.

I didn't want to be rude.

For Paul Riser, what can you tell us about your new project regarding Johnny Carson?

I'm not sure.

I might get a spot on the show.

Oh, no.

He has been out of it for a while.

Wow.

Is that up?

You've got a Johnny Carson project?

I don't know about this.

I'm working on a show that takes place

when the Tenai Cha moved to L.A., and it's about a kid who gets a job in the entry-level thing.

We have access to all the shows, which most people have not seen, so we can intersperse footage of the show in the thing, and it's going to be a very cool show.

Oh, wow.

Is this on another platform?

It's on another platform.

It's just in a pill form.

Remember, Johnny, you wake up and you go, I enjoyed it.

Johnny used to say, it's on another network, but now it has to be

another media delivery system.

They used to tell me that.

I couldn't say, watch NCI on another.

I couldn't say CBS.

There's only two other networks.

Was Congress right to ban Guantanamo Bay detainees from relocating to the U.S.?

Oh, this is so stupid.

You know, I think one of the last things Obama would like to do before he leaves office, check off his list of stupid shit, is to close.

That's the first thing on his list.

And that might change now.

Close Guantanamo.

Why?

Because of Paris?

Yeah, because of Paris?

I think so.

I mean, how many civil

liberties would be eroded because of this?

You know, they go, I want, oh, maybe we shouldn't

profile.

You know what I'm saying?

Well, it's interesting because they say none of the surveillance, for all the gajillion dollars we spent on surveillance and NSA this and tracking that, they say this entire Paris thing, there was nothing.

But they had no that for all the protection.

Because they stay in Guantanamo, they are not American citizens.

As soon as they come to this country, they get the right.

They get all the protections and the right.

That's why they're 90%.

You have the judicial problem, then you also have the NIMBY problem, where the question becomes, which state do you send them to?

Which federal system do you put them in?

Well, not to mention,

if they weren't bad when we put them in Guantanamo, I can rest assured they don't like us much coming out of Guantanamo.

Wait a second.

We're not describing what the Republican response to this is, which is that these guys are so dangerous that they cannot be on American soil, like they're the Ocean 11s gang like they're some sort of criminal masterminds who even if they're in a supermax will find a way to break out.

Because I can tell you that I went down to Guantanamo took the Miami Air jet that the Miami Heat uses when they're not taking journalists down to Guantanamo sat in the spectator gallery Khalid Sheikh Mohammed the mastermind of 9-11 comes in he's got the full-on Pakistani clothes that we've bought for him at halal co in in Fairfax County, Virginia, because we're culturally sensitive he's not wearing a prison jumpsuit he's got his white hair dyed red from berries that he got so he has the pious muslim look it's a signal and so we're bending over backwards doing this cultural gymnastics instead of just prosecuting them right and that's what we need to do right we need to just even if it's a

point whatever intelligence you were going to get out of them after 15 years you should have gotten it right so we said we should free free the ones that are innocent, quote unquote, and then prosecute the ones and not put all these hoops through.

Okay.

Thank you, panel.

Thank you.

Thank you, Panchell.

Thank you, audience.

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