 The reason I watch Bill Maher every week is because I think Bill Maher is the only motherfucka that's out here telling the truth. Okay. I just really do. Like Bill Maher is out here telling the truth about what's going on without compromising motherfucking democracy. You know, he was talking, he always talks about how we are normalizing so many things that we shouldn't normalize anymore, especially in government and he was just talking about how Trump is at the point where Trump was just committing crimes in your face now. And it's like, Democrats are just like, whatever, like they don't give a fuck no more. He's beating them into submission to the point where they're like, fuck it. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. And I just, I just like watching him, but he did this about a couple of weeks ago. He did this whole rant and the rant was really about, hold on, it was from a New York Times article. Okay. That's what he was referencing. And the New York Times article was entitled, our food is killing us. And it was a quote that reads, poor died is the leading cause of mortality in the United States. Then he listed all the terrible health conditions that are caused by obesity and he talked about how obesity is a huge part of a healthcare debate that nobody is, is having. Right. And he actually said something that we have said on this podcast a million times. If I'm not mistaking the first Bernadette podcast, the star shame enterprise was actually about how shame works. I've had plenty of people come up to me and say, Shalemain, you shamed me into losing weight, whatever, whatever. Now, by the way, I wasn't attempting to shame you, you know what I'm saying? If you have something, you know, that's about you, that you're ashamed of, if I say it to you, you'll be ashamed, right? And I think that's the thing with shame, right? The thing with shame is it don't matter if I say it publicly, if I put you to the side, if you're ashamed about something and I say it to you, that's inside you. It's inside you. You can't be offended by something that you don't feel insecure about. You can't shame me if I don't got no fucking shame. That's it. I don't give a shit. I've been talking with a list for 30 years. You can say whatever list joke you got. I don't give a fuck. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? You can say whatever about me. It don't bother me if it don't bother me. Exactly. Right? And the thing about being a fat or obese, whatever, that's something you can actually change. Yeah. And people like to say, oh, what about people who are sick and they have disease? We're not talking about them. We're talking about you eating fucking dumplings all day. Majority of the people in America who are fat are fat because of overeating and lack of exercise. That is a fact. You can argue with me till the cows come home and there's no where you're going to read that doesn't tell you otherwise. I've never met a fat person that works out more than me. You know what I'm saying? Never once. I've never met one. So the problem with Bill Maher is he's a political pundit who actually also happens to be a comedian. Yeah. So when you're giving people this medicine, you throw a little candy in it. Yes. And even though it's truth and jokes. Yes. When he says fat shaming works, I don't think, I think he's looking at it and I can't speak for him. I'm just saying that's the way we also look at it because that is what it's called, right? If I tell somebody, yo, you fat, lose some weight, they'll say stop shaming him. I'm not though. I'm just telling that person, yo, lose some weight. You want to be here, right? You don't have a heart attack or whatever. So I'm not doing it on purpose. So I think when Bill Maher was saying that, that's what he was saying. He's not saying go around and just be teasing fat people for the sake of teasing fat people. He's just telling them, yo, if they big, let them know. Yeah. If they obese, let them know. You encourage them to get in the shape. James Corden. Nobody ever lost weight because of compliments. Yes. And James Corden said, I have nothing but respect for Maher. I think he's terrific. I watched his show last night, but he said, what, he said, what did James Corden actually say? He said fat shaming. Oh, Bill Maher said fat shaming doesn't need to end. He needs to make a comeback. And James Corden basically said, fat shaming is wrong. And he, all I'm saying is he made it all about fat shaming. He made it all about fat shaming, but this whole conversation was bigging in fat shaming, but being that we're only focusing on this, the one line Maher said about fat shaming, we're dismissing everything else about obesity and health care and overeating and lack of exercise. Like we get so distracted. You know what I mean? We're not distracted. He's been a parasite. You think he's just. Parasiting, man. Mm hmm. That's all he's doing. He's finding a bite that he can use to virtue signal on and then he can, you know, pat himself on the back and all his followers can be like, oh my God, you're so good. You're so right. Look how evil that person was. You shine some light on how evil they were. Parasite behavior, dude. Parasite, dude. Yeah. I'm not mad at James Corden for his opinion. You know what I'm saying? He has the right to his opinion. I am. Because you enable people being fat as fuck. And that's an unhealthy thing. It is an unhealthy thing. Would you let your kids be obese? I would. I would have a light for him to have that conversation about Bill Maher. Here's the thing. I have no problem with you pushing back on the fat shaming thing. If you equally big up all the things that you agree with that he said. Yes. I did say he's right. Obesity is a real thing. And lack of exercise. And people are down to a little bit. But big that up just as much as you make a point about the fat shaming thing. You can tell Bill Maher you can do all of that without encouraging fat shaming. Whatever. But just big up the good and what Bill Maher said. As much as you big up what you deem is negative. Yeah. You know it's tricky with a show like that with Bill Maher because he's a comedian, but he is serious. Yes. And I think you get into trouble there because it's like, well, you can't just be a comedian the second motherfuckers give you pushback. And then all the other stuff you say that's serious. You go, no, that's, I meant to me. I meant that all of that. Yeah. You know, and I think that's where a lot of comics like is, I think it's tough for comics and most people in general, just to be content and just be entertainment. But just because it's a joke doesn't mean that it's false. Absolutely. Joke just, joke just means intention. Yes. But if he only did jokes, he could joke about that all he want. And then it's totally fine. But the fact that the beginning was serious and he was giving these serious points. It's almost like he's using the comedy as like a way to get out of jail free. But that's why I like Bill Maher. And that's cool. That's what I love. I think Bill Maher is the best host on television. Who's not Stephen Colbert? Yeah. You know what I'm saying? But Stephen does something totally different. Right. There's nobody I liked it. The only other person I used to like to hear that did what Maher did with John Stude. Yeah. John was phenomenal. Phenomenal. Yeah, yeah. Maher is Maher. I think Maher has killed Mike on this show all the time. Cause he gets it. Maher is center. Yeah. As much as people act like Maher is left-leaning. No. Maher is center. He's left. This is as much as you consider the right. It's just that right now, the right needs a lot more criticism. Right. But he's also heavy on the left. Like he's heavy on the criticism the left needs right now too? He hates the left. Listen. He thinks the left is responsible for the puthification of society. Yeah. All this cancel culture shit. Y'all. He calls the left a shooting, a circle of shooters. What do they call it? Mexican shooter. Huh? You fucking racist. Yeah. What do they call it? Shooting. If everybody's shooting each other in a circle, everyone's dead. Not a circle jerk, a circular firing squad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So everybody's killing each other. Everybody's in a circle. Everybody's shooting each other. You end up killing each other, canceling each other out. That's what the fuck it is. Yeah. You know what I mean? So he's just as hard on him as he is on the right. But I just like him cause I feel like there's nobody out there that's stating the obvious more than motherfucking Bill Maher. Yeah. And he's like, yo, y'all focus on such trivial shit. Like I really don't care if Donald Trump tells somebody to go back to their fucking country. Right. I care about the legislation Donald Trump is implementing that might really send you back to your fucking country. Yeah. We gotta start dismantling systems. Yeah. I'm gonna fuck about the little colorful language that's used here and there. But systems don't get retweets, bro. What gets a retweet is calling someone an asshole for what they said. Well, I'm not in the retweet. I'm in the actual work. Now we talking. You know what I'm saying? Dismantling systems takes time. Dismantling systems take time and they both take hard work to do. Yeah.