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yesterday they have a gut shot, straight shot, flush draw. I

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don't know what that's not. I'm gonna tell you right now. I'll give you a gut shot. Sorry to offend you. So yesterday, Zacho,

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you talked with Bill Maher. We're about to play that interview. But Bill

1:18

Maher, thee Bill Maher, Bill Bill from real who's the boss? That's

1:23

him? No? And of live different different stroke. What did you ask

1:29

him about? All sorts of fun stuff? Mostly is that right? Because

1:33

he's a big proponent, was very good. I asked him about weed he

1:36

owns that bit in California Woody Heroes. Yeah, he was delivering weed.

1:40

I'll talk about it. But he was talking about delivering weed with Woody Harrelson.

1:45

May I ask you a question about it before we even start the Why

1:48

did he want to be on the radio with you? Ah? He is

1:51

going to be playing the Mystic Showroom on Sunday night Mystic Lake dot com.

1:57

You get your tickets so he will be doing his his comedy stylings and I'm

2:04

looking forward to uh to checking it out. Because uh, I'm an I

2:08

have not seen a stand up yet, so it's outstanding. Can have you

2:13

ever seen the movie Religious? It's great. You should watch it. It's

2:16

very religious. It's very good, very very good. Can't wait. Yeah,

2:20

very good. You should watch that. And uh good, Well, I'm glad to hear that it went well. Did you piss him off anyway?

2:23

Do you say anything that? No? I don't think so that's great.

2:27

I hope I didn't. They got it's very political, so you know

2:30

that's not your thing. Sorry, But how do you guys feel about podcast

2:34

previews? Like if you listen to Dana Carvey and David Spade, Yeah,

2:38

they do this all the time, right, They do four or five minutes

2:40

where it's we're about to talk to Kevin Nelon, and Kevin Nelon says this,

2:45

and he talks about They basically give you the bullet points of the interview

2:49

you're about to hear, which is what we're kind of doing now. Yeah,

2:53

And obviously you have the other ones like a smart List, where they fuck around for five minutes and then do the the ramp up teas were whoever

3:01

books it the other two have to try to figure out who the guest is,

3:05

Yeah, I definitely don't love the preview bid, which is what we're

3:09

doing. But you know what I'm saying, wat Yeah, quick thing here

3:15

if we want to not talk about the interview we're about what does that mean?

3:17

So I you have a thing? Yeah, So I was in that

3:22

was messing around chat gpt there during in the box and uh, I wrote

3:28

write a show theme for the Power Trip Morning Show in the style of the

3:32

Fresh Prince of bel Air rights and kind it kind of there's a kind of

3:38

slaps, it's it's all right, it's here at sweet slot. So now

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this is a story all about how the Power Trip Morning Show turns your mornings

3:46

around. And I'd like to take a minute just sit right there to tell

3:50

you how this crew became morning show players players, Yeah, and Minneapolis born

3:57

and raised on the radio where they spent most of their day. He is

4:00

chilling out, Max and relaxing all cool, entertaining the listeners and breaking the

4:04

rules. This is just the same thing. Okay, how about this h

4:10

where is it? When a couple of guys were up to no good started

4:15

making trouble in their neighborhood, they got in one little fight and their boss got scared. He said, you're moving to mornings now being prepared. That's

4:20

kind of true, right, No, no, but I like it.

4:25

It's clever. This is where it was weird. Um. They laughed and

4:28

joked, they played their games with flair, and they shoted to the audience

4:30

We're glad you're here. How did you say that? Looked at their kingdom.

4:38

They were finally there to sit on the morning show thrown as the hosts

4:42

of the air Morning Show thrown. I can tell you this, man,

4:46

I don't know if it's a good poem or not, but it makes me want to poop. We're glad you're here. I thought you stood something was

4:50

weird about that. Just you didn't do this in two thousand. Yeah,

4:54

that's crazy. Anyway. It may have just been a coincidence that Chris says

4:58

that in chat Gypts that our listeners are glad that they're here. But it

5:01

might not have been. Maybe it's world famous. Maybe people all over the

5:03

planet know about it. I'm gonna We're glad you're here t shirt. Yeah.

5:06

Man, I wonder if Bill Maher's people listen to this first five minutes

5:11

and go, why did we agree to be on this so much. People

5:14

don't give us. You don't think they give a shit. Why don't they care? You don't think they do a good All they want is for us

5:17

to sell a few tickets. Man, a good point. That's what they

5:19

want, for us to do some tickets. Let's ticket. I'm a huge

5:25

fan of Bill Mark. It sounds like you are. Yeah, me too,

5:28

that's fun. It was weird man to for about forty seconds of this.

5:32

I think they tricked you. I thought it was Ryan. Oh really

5:36

yep, yep. Actually wouldn't you could have gotten me. I thought it

5:40

was, especially since the way like because it was the way it was set

5:43

up was he's gonna call this studio at three thirty, So that's all I

5:46

had, And that could have been did you call on time five minutes later?

5:53

That's close enough, that's ga. He's probably on with some other radio

5:57

goofball. Yeah, who was wasting his talent? Zat even waste his time?

6:00

You know, we're wasting the time of listeners who are trying to listen

6:03

to you interview Bill Maher Right, should we get to it? Have we

6:06

gone the appropriate amount of times? I have a lot of hair pants,

6:12

Yeah, you have a lot of pair of pants. Yeah, like jeans,

6:15

yea, like three ship. I own one pair of jean and I

6:20

have like two pairs of pants that the zipper comes down all the time because

6:26

and so I never remember which ones they are. And this is one of

6:29

the pairs of them. I'm sorry. When I finished the day wearing these

6:31

pants, I'm going to tear them up and throw them in the in the

6:34

trash. Fantastic, like like five times today I'll be walking around on my

6:38

balls, will be hanging out of my pants, and this time it'll be

6:42

an accident. Well, maybe you get us a pants endorsement, because there's

6:45

a salesperson who's peeking through the window looking at us, like, what are they doing to guy about that? I don't know. We're doing a pot

6:50

tell you about it. I tell you. I gotta go meet with some

6:53

clients. Here's Bill Maher with Zacho Zo. Good job. Bill Maher will

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be playing the Stick Showroom on Sunday night, eight o'clock. Starting your tickets

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at Mystic Lake dot com and Bill joins us now on the Power Trip after

7:09

party. Bill, thank you so much for your time. How are things

7:12

out and I'm assuming California? Correct? Yes? They're pretty good. I

7:17

was at the Laker game the other day. I got to see that Game

7:21

six where they won over the Warriors. So I'm trying to make the best

7:27

of my forced time off. Of course, we have a strike going on

7:30

out here, so I have been forced to be unemployed this month. Well,

7:34

it's it's nice to hear about playoffs past the first round here. We

7:40

don't hear that a lot out in Minnesota, So enjoy it out there.

7:45

One thing I'm excited about. I think this might be a perfect week for you to come here because you could be capping off a pretty historic week in

7:51

Minnesota. I believe we're very close to Governor Walls signing a bill that will

7:57

legalize recreational marijuana here in the great state of Minnesota. I know you've been

8:01

kind of on the forefront of this movement a little bit. What is your

8:05

reaction to now, I mean, we're getting close to basically half the country

8:09

having a legal weed in their state. Well, of course, I think

8:13

it's great. It's funny you mentioned that because yesterday I was hanging out with

8:18

my friend Woody Harrelson, and he owns a pot store out here called The

8:22

Woods, which I am a minority are in and we were delivering some of

8:28

the pot yesterday as kind of a publicity stunt to show people that when you

8:33

order from the woods, you never know who's going to show up with your

8:37

bag of weed at the door. But just the idea, we were saying

8:39

to each other, just the idea that you can order pot, you know.

8:45

I mean, we're both over sixty now. We remember the bad old days. I remember what Woody was arrested for. Like I think he planted

8:52

like a hemp seed somewhere and you know, as a stunt and got arrested

8:58

for it. And the and I remember going through airports so much of my

9:03

life sweating, you know. And I would take like the littlest bit of

9:07

pot and put it in a ball of Kleenex and hide it under my nuts,

9:13

just sweating that the dogs would not sniff it, and I'd be thrown

9:16

out a line and put in Guantanamo Bay. And now I can deliver pot,

9:22

I can own a pot store. I can smoke it like freely on

9:28

my podcast Club Random every week and blow smoke right in the face of the

9:33

camera. I mean, things have changed a lot. And for the people

9:39

who take despair about how sometimes this country looks like it's moving backwards, and

9:45

sometimes it does, as we recently saw with losing the right to have an

9:48

abortion in a lot of states. Yes it does look like sometimes we're taking

9:52

three steps forward and four step back. But also just take solace in the

9:58

idea that on a lot of issues. Gay marriage is another one. You

10:01

know, gay marriage lost on the ballot thirty five times in every state.

10:07

It was put on for years and years and years, and like four years

10:11

later it was the law of the land. So look, we're always late.

10:16

Everybody's laid on everything. Obama was laid on gay marriage, and JFK

10:20

was laid on civil rights, and Lincoln was laid on slavery. That's human

10:24

nature. But things do change. And when I traveled the country now,

10:30

it's funny. When I used to travel I would look up what states is

10:33

it legal? What states just have it medical? And okay, I can

10:37

do this, I can do this. Now I don't even look because you

10:41

know what, if anybody ever arrested me in any state in this country,

10:45

my attitude is, Okay, you're the one who's going to be embarrassed,

10:48

because it's just not where the country is. Yeah, you mentioned that your

10:52

podcast Club Random, and I just think it's a great exposition, if you

10:56

will, of just how harmless it is. Because these people have made Marijuanato

11:01

this big villain. And when you watch your podcast, you guys, just

11:07

you and your guest, you know a lot of times your guest partakes as

11:09

well, and it just looks like a decent chill time, which is really

11:13

what that side has been saying for the longest time. It isn't this big,

11:18

huge monster. It's just a way to feel better for a little while,

11:22

right, I mean it never was. I mean we always try to make the same old arguments. It's so much less harmful than liquor. It's

11:30

not really the gateway drug. The gateway drug is always beer. We don't

11:35

need to study it anymore. It just makes you eat cookie dough. I

11:37

mean, all these things we tried for years and years and years. And

11:41

of course there are still people who are not on the page. And I'm

11:45

looking at you, Joe Biden, because I was just saying how everybody's late

11:48

on everything. Well, Joe Biden is late on this one, very late,

11:54

and I think it's probably because his ne'er do well drug addict son Hunter.

11:58

Biden was someone who was trapped in the terrible things that happened, which

12:03

sometimes when you become a drug addict. And he probably thinks it's because marijuana

12:09

was how he started down that road. But it really has nothing to do

12:13

with marijuana, Joe, And you should really get on the page because you're

12:16

way behind, especially for someone who never turns down a progressive thought on anything.

12:24

Whatever they come to him with trans whatever, he's all on the page,

12:28

but somehow with marijuana, he's terrible. He he's not for even decriminalizing.

12:37

Yeah. I want to talk about this too, because you've been now on television for almost three decades now, between Politically and Correct and now Real

12:46

Time, and it's such a unique show and I think more more important show

12:50

than ever to have because while you are obviously left leaning liberal, but you

12:56

are able to you know, see it clearly and call out your your own

13:00

side for certain issues. And that's very, very unique in a media landscape

13:07

now that it's just more and more partisan, more and more echo chamber say

13:11

whatever the audience wants to hear, basically, and you don't really seem to

13:16

care what the audience wants to hear you want to say what you want to

13:20

say when you you know, when you go in for a show like Real

13:24

Time or Club Random, whatever, do you your relationship with your audience seems

13:28

to be some of the most unique of any show of any platform out there,

13:33

because you really seem to keep them on you on their toes. Well,

13:37

I hope so. I mean, I certainly have paid the price for

13:39

that along the way sometimes because you're right, I'm not going to let the

13:46

audience dictate what I think. But I think that is the bond and always

13:50

has been with my audience over those three decades, is that they respect that

13:54

politically incorrect. First one on the air, they told me, you know,

13:58

you really can't do a s like this is because you're a host,

14:01

and when you're a host, you don't want to alienate half the crowd.

14:05

And I said, well, but in real life, people sometimes don't agree

14:07

with each other politically and they still can be friends. No one, no

14:11

one thinks that's a deal breaker. Let's see if it works on television. And yeah, it does work on television. And I think recently because we

14:20

seem to have gone through a kind of a transformation in this country where liberalism

14:26

kind of divided into old school liberals and then, well, I guess what

14:31

we would call the woke woke, which I certainly didn't have a problem with

14:37

at the beginning when it was just meant alert to injustice, but then it

14:39

morphed into something that in many ways became kind of ridiculous, and it very

14:46

often became the opposite of old school liberalism. I mean, liberalism is about

14:52

lifting people up, and wokeism is very often about just catching people at doing

14:58

something petty. And liberalism was always about defending free speech, and the woke

15:05

people don't even want to hear about free speech because it might interfere with their

15:09

feelings or give them anxiety. So I'm defending something that I always believed that

15:15

I haven't changed. My politics haven't changed at all, but the politics around

15:20

me have. So I think in the last few years, yes lost some

15:26

audience that were the woke people. They kind of left the building. If

15:30

I don't just completely agree with everything that they now sign on too, I'm

15:35

out. And that's fine because I gained I think a bigger section of people

15:39

who I would call common sense people. And when people ask me, you

15:43

know, why do you make fun of the left more because you're more ridiculous

15:46

than you used to be. I didn't used to have the material. I'm

15:50

a comedian. I go where the funny is. And you people very often

15:54

you don't want to text things. You just want to rename them. I

15:58

remember when I used to do the show. Do you remember Comic Relief?

16:00

Yeah? Okay, Comic Relief it was. It was to help the homeless

16:04

and Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg Robin Williams hosted it. Okay, you can't

16:11

even say homeless anymore. We gave that name to them because we didn't want

16:15

people calling them bums or vagrants or hoboes. But now it's got to be

16:22

people experiencing homeless. What's next, wonderful, well meaning person who fun full

16:29

to their own is taking a dump on my driveway? You know, it's

16:33

experiencing homelet That doesn't solve the problem. They're still experiencing it on the sidewalk.

16:40

So that kind of stuff, you know, renaming everything instead of just

16:45

fixing it. Words you can't say a college has now come up with all

16:49

these lists, like you can't say master bedroom, or you know white paper

16:56

or you guys, you guys no can do is on their list insane.

17:03

You're not supposed to say insane, which is bad enough. They took away

17:07

the R word, which is so needed in this country because this country is

17:11

so are virgin you can't say? But I guess those are people experiencing,

17:18

not getting laid. I don't know, but there's plenty of material here on

17:25

the that there didn't used to be, so if you ask me why I'm

17:27

doing it, And also most of my stuff is still making fun of the

17:30

Republicans and especially Trump, who's very much back on the scene. Did you

17:36

see his town hall the other day? Yeah? Yeah, And obviously people

17:38

going after CNN for quote unquote platforming him. But on the other hand,

17:44

where do you stand on that? Do you want his words to show him

17:48

how ridiculous he is or would you rather them not give him the spotlight?

17:53

It's a ridiculous argument. He's the front runner for the Republican nomination of the

17:59

press. Okay, there were a news organization, you're not going to give

18:03

a platform to the person who half the country wants to be president who was

18:08

the president. Of course, that's not platforming, that's doing your job as

18:14

a news organization. And I thought they did a tremendous public service by putting

18:18

him on. Because I watched that whole thing, I got to say this

18:21

for Donald Trump. I mean, there's few people who have been meet or

18:26

harder on Donald Trump than me. I also was the one guy who for

18:29

years was saying he's never going to leave, even if he loses the election,

18:33

He's going to try to stay, and that turned out to be true.

18:36

I have a long, long, long list of things of horrible things

18:38

he says about me. He does it all the time. He said it

18:41

last week. I'm a crazy person, I'm a waco, I'm a nut

18:45

job. I'm a low rating sleeves bag. It rolls off his tongue.

18:48

So we are not friends. But I gotta tell you, this guy is

18:52

probably the best instinctive politician I have ever seen in my life. And I

18:59

do mean think because he doesn't think he's crazy. He's both stupid and crazy.

19:03

Doesn't matter as a politician. He had that crowd eating out of his

19:08

hand. They loved him and when she and Caitlin Collins is very talented,

19:15

she did as good a job as you can do. Every time she tried

19:18

to trap him or corner him. It was just he brushed her off.

19:25

He just rolled over her. And again not her fault. She did as

19:29

good as you can do. He is just a hard guy to defeat in

19:34

that arena. And it's good that people saw that. It's very good because

19:40

this guy very easily could win the next election. Great, and you've obviously

19:45

been pretty gone in those predictions that I know, you know years ago,

19:48

where people were mocking the idea of a Trump presidency or mocking the idea of

19:52

a Trump holdout and not leaving office when he was voted out. You've sort

19:57

of been on the ball and I've people just continue not to listen to you.

20:03

Oh absolutely, they never will, and that's okay. That's all you

20:07

can do is put it out in the water, and then you know, what often happens is that other people pick it up and somebody else says it's

20:12

somebody who's a little more shall we say, mainstream, and then they'll listen

20:18

to it there. So, you know, if that's the service I do,

20:22

I'm thrilled, and I hope that people understand that Donald Trump is not

20:29

over. He's just this is just an interrectum possibly between his his his two

20:37

presidential terms, and you know that this has to be addressed now, you

20:41

know it's there's no other way it's going to happen. When I have dinner

20:45

with my friends, they always say that, you know, maybe Trump,

20:48

maybe he'll die. Okay, that's not a plan that. First of all,

20:52

he's not going to die. He's never going to die. He's a

20:56

city roach that the worst he eats and lives, the stronger he gets.

21:02

I mean, Joe Biden, look, I love Joe, and he is,

21:07

you know, eighty, and I think he's a good eighty. I

21:10

think he's not what they say. He's definitely not senile, he's not frail.

21:15

He's just a normal eighty. But Trump is only like four years younger,

21:19

and there's just nothing about him that looks that age. I mean,

21:25

he doesn't look like a young man, but he just has a robustness about

21:29

him. I don't I don't understand it. He lives on ketchup and burnt

21:33

steak and meat loaf, and you know, he just got the worst diet,

21:37

the way never exercises. He's fat, He's doesn't matter, it's just

21:44

something in his DNA. I think his father lived to be a hundred or

21:48

something. That's not a plan. He's not going to die. And as

21:52

horrible as anybody is that that shouldn't be planned to wish someone to die.

21:56

No, we have to. They did the is it with Ruth Bader Ginsburg?

22:00

Maybe she'll live forever? Okay, she didn't live forever. He's not

22:04

going to die. Get a better plan, Get a better plan. Indeed,

22:08

Bill, thank you so much for your time. I cannot wait to

22:12

see you Sunday. I've been a big fan of the TV show, on

22:17

the podcast and everything. I've not senior stand up comedy in person yet.

22:22

For those who are are interested and maybe are in the same boat, they

22:25

haven't they have seen your show, they haven't seen you live. What can we all expect Sunday night at Mystic Lake. Oh, you can expect to

22:32

laugh your ass off. I mean that's the point of stand up comedy, you know. Stand up comedy is pure. The show I do on HBO,

22:38

It's a comedy show for sure, that uses the headlines and what's going

22:42

on in the news as our fodder, of course, but it varies between

22:48

funny and serious. Now, the subjects I talk about in my stand up

22:52

show are pretty much similar to what I talk about on the show, although

22:56

I do a lot more stuff about my personal life and sex and romance and

23:03

stuff like that, movies, drugs, rock and roll, you know.

23:07

So it is a lot more varied. It's a ninety minute show. But

23:11

you know, I don't I'm not never interested in talking about trivial things.

23:15

Some comics or geniuses at that they can talk about the trivial. I like

23:18

to talk about things that matter, that are kind of weighty but makes them

23:22

very funny. When you do stand up comedy, people expect to laugh their

23:27

ass off every fifteen seconds. They want to be having a belly laugh.

23:33

That's what stand up comedy is. That's what's so different about that from doing

23:37

a television show. You couldn't do that for an hour every week, but

23:40

I can do that for ninety minutes for you when I come to Mystic Lake

23:45

Awesome Sunday, May twenty first again. Tickets at Mystic Lake dot com.

23:48

Bill Maher, thank you so much for your time. Have a great week,

23:52

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