Arianna Huffington | Club Random with Bill Maher
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Why do some cultures revere older people and how does that contrast with the U.S.?
Are you comfortable?
I'm so comfortable. I love this chair. I want the chair.
I like the chair. The chair. I like your skirt better than the chair. You like my skirt? I mean the furniture is from the eighties. It's like well it's club random. It's random. Mm-hmm. I mean you couldn't find I don't think Maybe a set designer could find this somewhere. It's just s it's beyond ugly, but it is of the era. Not that I'm trying to do the eighties, 'cause everything here is from some different I mean, it's truly random. But um You you remember this room when I had my I remember you talking to Barbara Streisand right over there in the middle of the room. Uh was that was on my sixtieth birthday party?
Your sixtieth birthday.
Right. I mean that's before we made it into this, but Yeah, that was a very eclectic group. I
but also you know how I haven't been here since the pandemic. And you've built sort of it seems to have grown. Like there's the tree house and there is the other guest house, but somehow it feels There's more. More structures. No.
I just lit them. I mean I took me a long time to get this place, like I mean, even this place, which is like a dirty little rat scalar, which is what I love about it, um, it took me a while. You know, I've been I've been here twenty years. Can you believe that? I mean and didn't you tell me that we know each other thirty?
Thirty. Because I did and it's so amazing because Chuck and Chris, I've known them for thirty years. They were there when I did the first politically incorrect in New York. In nineteen ninety three. Oh,
Chuck and Cr the producers of this podcast. Yeah.
And they were here. And And Jack told me how Remember when we were nominated for an Emmy for Strange Bedfellows that we did with Al Franken?
I blocked out the Emmys, Ariana, but I don't know. I've been nominated for forty of them. So they all just kinda go into one
But that was the only one I was nominated for. Right. When you
and Al Franken did Strange Bedfells. Strange Fellows
as part of politically incorrect in bed together.
Right.
And um and I said Chuck reminded me that I said to him during one of the intermissions that I said, Chuck, I just really want to get out of here. And he said, Great. He said, I'll drive you home. I said, Really? So he drove me home and he and my mom and Agapi, my sister, sat down and had dinner.
Really?
Um instead of watching the rest of the Emmys. And my mom, do you remember my mum? Of course. She loved you. My mom loved you and my daughters loved your girlfriends. Because they always felt that they were more their age.
Well they were. Still are. But um
And they talk to them instead of the all the people who ignore them. I mean
that's been a long time since I brought girlfriends around to you. I mean it's been a long
But it's been a long time. It's thirty years. You used to bring girlfriends around. Oh, I think Actually I hired one of them. Do you remember your science girlfriend?
Of course.
So I I have I
mean of course
she was amazing, gorgeous, brilliant and I hired her to be a science editor at the Huffington Post. And you remember she launched this series which was I think your idea. Talk nerdy to me.
I produced that. I yes.
So what happened? Talk nerdy to me, such a great franchise.
Such yeah. Um Probably shouldn't get into all this. Uh you're right. Beautiful and brilliant and um absolutely Uh made to be a science communicator. the I th I've always felt that, you know, I mean she had not even thought of that career. You know, I said, This is what you should be doing and of course she took to it like a doctor water, 'cause as she says, she was quite brilliant, so she could adapt to anything very, very quickly. I remember we were going around to m like meetings Um, she was twenty five at the time and and you know, so young and also no familiarity with show business really. And yet after like the first two meetings, she was so hip to like what was going on. Like we get out of the meeting and she'd say, you know, that network probably needs something in their eight PM slot that I'm like, whoa.
Um yeah. Uh but
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why do some cultures revere older people and how does that contrast with the U.S.?
0:01–8:22
2
How did Arianna Huffington’s humble Greek upbringing shape her career?
8:22–16:06
3
What is the story behind Bill Maher’s yearly birthday gift to Arianna?
16:06–24:35
4
What did the Harvard‑Virginia electro‑shock experiment reveal about gender and pain?
24:35–32:40
5
Why does the “generation with no beef” (Gen Z) seem different from Millennials?
32:40–40:54
6
How do Arianna and Bill define and criticize modern social‑justice warriors?
40:54–49:20
7
Why does Bill call himself a ‘bad environmentalist’ and what does he think of Elon’s Twitter takeover?
49:20–57:30
8
How did Arianna’s divorce and Bill’s comment about making her kids cry affect their families?
57:30–1:04:44