Aaron Rodgers | Club Random with Bill Maher
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What does Bill Maher say when he first greets Aaron Rodgers?
All right. I said only reigning MVPs would I talk to at this party. Oh, it is. I'm sorry. I was about to yell at the crew. Right. Aaron Rodgers. Good to see you. Man of his word. Thank you. You said you would do this, and you fucking showed up. You're the man. And Bill Maher hits you up and asks you to be on his show. Thank you. I have to ask you, though.
How do they discuss the upcoming NFL season and training camp?
I mean, I didn't realize until yesterday that your season starts a week from tomorrow. Yeah.
Wow.
Last
few days of vacation. Right. This is the calm before the
chaos. Yeah, right. You don't have to practice every fucking day. No,
we get the weekend off. It's great.
You need that. What is it like going back to school?
The first day of training camp is for sure.
Aaron, I got you a cigar. Oh, thank you. I saw you smoking it on another Lesser podcast. Do you smoke or? I don't smoke that. Why not? You know, I was going to ask. Well, first of all, as someone once said, a cigar is a cigarette without any manners. I don't know what the kick is. Like, I understand what... What do I understand about marijuana? Because it gets you high.
You're making me not want to smoke this thing. I'll
put that
away, all
right? Yeah. No, I want you to be happy here. I'm so... I want to have a little 42 with you. Okay, great. Yeah. Right. It's the last week... It's Labor Day weekend. Come on. Come on. How much? Well, four till you're happy. All right. Yeah. There's plenty here.
Why does the conversation shift to cigars, smoking, and Aaron’s preferences?
Thank you. Yeah, I mean, I... This is incredible, by the way. Oh, isn't this a great setup? This is amazing. I get very upset when people call it a man cave. A man cave is something a married person has that has a fish on the wall. This is a nightclub, right? It is. I mean, there's the VIP room.
I want to invite back when it is a nightclub, though.
Yeah, please. I had parties in here for 20 years before we made it into this.
Yeah.
But you see the VIP sign and it says, best friends only, drink what you like.
Stab is 2021.
Yeah, exactly. Year two, drink what you like, say what you want.
Oh,
okay. Which is my... credo in life as well as here, you know, I've always tried to make the closest approximation of my real life as I can on television. When I did that show, Politically Incorrect, that was the beginning of it. I think Real Time on HBO, which is not a broad, you know, it's a cable network. You can say fuck and whatever the fuck you want. It's the best. Right. That got closer to it. But this is the closest. This is exactly what my life is. I love it. I love it. And I know you can't... It seems
like in real time, that's you, though.
Oh, totally. Yeah. It's just me in a suit, and we're talking politics almost the whole time because that's what the show is. This is... much more informal. And I started this because people kept saying to me at dinner, like, you know, there's so many things you talk about that are interesting that you would never go to on real time because it's really a weekly wrap-up show. I got to talk about what Biden's fucking doing and shit like that. And that's not my whole, that's not all of me. This is closer to me. I love it. You know, we get into politics. I mean, I'm sure we will, too. But, I mean, I have, I mean, look, I never know what I'm going to say. That's the other thing. On my show, I prepare everything.
Here, I prepare nothing.
Really? Because it seems so off the cuff. I
mean, you're so
brilliant, but it seems
so... On real time. Yeah. Yes, because I try to make it look like that. That's what... There's an Italian phrase, sprezzatura. They used to say Joe DiMaggio embodied it. It's making something that is hard look easy. I would say that is very much what you do.
I would send it right back to you.
Well, I'll try to hit the route over the middle, Aaron, and then you can hit me.
Those are the easy ones. You've got to get the back shoulder one down the sidelines.
I have to say about football... That of all the sport things, I've thought of this many times because I have a basketball court here. I have a pitching machine. I hit balls every day.
What medical topics, like statins and plant‑based medicine, do they explore?
Oh, it's the greatest warm-up. Even if you don't feel like working out, you'll always feel like hitting something.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does Bill Maher say when he first greets Aaron Rodgers?
0:01–0:28
2
How do they discuss the upcoming NFL season and training camp?
0:28–1:38
3
Why does the conversation shift to cigars, smoking, and Aaron’s preferences?
1:38–4:31
4
What medical topics, like statins and plant‑based medicine, do they explore?
4:31–1:04:19
5
Why do they criticize U.S. defense spending and militarism?
1:04:19–1:19:07
6
How do they frame personal medical autonomy and the abortion debate?
1:19:07–1:30:53
7
What NFL games and viewing habits do they discuss for the upcoming season?
1:30:53–1:42:28
8
Which sports announcers do they admire and why would they host Jeopardy?
1:42:28–1:59:33