George Santos | Club Random with Bill Maher
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What lies did George Santos finally admit were false?
While you were remodeling your backyard to make it more, you know, Zen-E, uh, we were remodeling our merch store to make it more random. We've slapped our new logo on t-shirts, tie-dyes, hoodies, and hats, and all with premium printed labels. Look. I wasn't kidding. We have it because tags are like the junk mail of clothing. All merch is available exclusively at clubrandom.com. Once again, that's clubrandom.com. I could tell when someone's lying.
You got
it all out of your
system. I
What was present like? Awful.
I was there for twenty three days and then the warden put me in solitary confinement. What'd
you do?
Hi. How are you? Look
at oh. Friendly grey guest should greet me this friendly.
How are you? Some
of these motherfuckers don't even stand up. Oh, that's so bad. Well, you deserve you deserve it.
You deserve for people to stand up for you.
Some of them have been ninety, that's why.
Hey, uh
See this thing? What is that? Well, now you're from Brazil, right? Yeah.
My family's from Brazil.
I was born in New York. George, we're gonna have to get to something. We'll get to it, yeah. This thing is I'm from Brazil, I believe. That's a quite a Really? Yes. I had a friend who was an art dealer, and this is quite a valuable um
Is it like a Bossa Nova type
band? Yes, and it's you it plug it in and these these motherfuckers like they move. They move and and play? It's fucking creepy. It's very like the shining. You know what I mean?
Yeah, Annabelle meets the shining.
Yeah. So uh Brazil, but
You're from you were born with I was born in New York City. But your parents are from Brazil? Born in Brazil. They're so it's funny, my family is an immigration chain of chaos.
Right, 'cause you also say you're a Jew. Jewish. And your your grandparents were in the
Holocaust? Um my mother's grandparents, so my great grandparents, uh, were in in Europe during the Holocaust. Uh there was a dislocation. As Jews? Jews, yeah. My mom was so they
so they lived through the Holocaust.
They lived through it and they migrated to Brazil, part of that great exodus. And then some ge uh genealogists from France, uh hired by the New York Times, said I was lying. It's a story I was told my whole life. So
it would be funny if we found out today that you've been telling the truth about everything. I'm not counting on that, George.
Well, you know, look, I I've been proven right on a lot of stuff in recent times. Uh well, okay, I d look
And and again I'm not here to
adjudicate. I'm here to have a conversation.
I'm not either. We're not a c have you seen this podcast before? I have. It's we could see it. I'm just a I'm just a guy who likes to fucking get high with somebody. And I I I love it. And eva i I look, I'm also cold bullshit, bullshit and that's probably gonna happen. That's great, yeah. Yeah.
George, I got
I don't think I'm
breaking news to you. I've said a lot of bullshit in my life. Hey, I went to prison, Bill. Let's just put it that way. Uh I heard you had a good time. But uh I don't know about that. Uh no, I'm sure. No, I'm sure you're
not
that
the the consensus is that you kind of Pinocchio your way into Congress. And I have to tell you your reputation again, I'm not here to attack you, but I mentioned by the way, I'm very excited you're here. I'm so excited. So like when they told me it was it came out cr. It was last minute, yeah. Yeah, it was last year. Chuck was so great. Uh your your staff amazing. They are great. And uh I was like, Oh my gosh, and I told someone who uh is a very uh dear friend of mine, uh that and this is a a twenty eight year old uh person, and uh I said, George Santos and she she went The liar guy? Oh wow the person who's not like that much of a news hound. Yeah. That's what the headline was. But you know, uh if you can uh tell me, uh like this this uh I thought, you know, it sounded like what they were saying was that uh y your grandparents escaped the Holocaust by being born Catholic in Brazil.
You're saying they left they lived through the Holocaust. They There was Do they have stories of
Living through the Holocaust? My great grandparents, not my grandparents.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What lies did George Santos finally admit were false?
0:00–8:25
2
How does Santos describe his experience in federal prison and solitary confinement?
8:25–18:26
3
What does Santos reveal about his family background and heritage?
18:26–28:23
4
How does the conversation explore Santos’s sexual orientation and gay Republican identity?
28:23–36:15
5
What are Santos’s thoughts on moving into show business and Hollywood?
36:15–45:00
6
How does Santos discuss his political career, campaign finance crimes, and future plans?
45:00–54:15
7
What does Bill Maher say about media bias, cancel culture, and political tribalism?
54:15–1:07:55
8
What final reflections and take‑aways do Santos and Maher share at the end of the episode?
1:07:55–1:23:02