Judd Apatow | Club Random w/ Bill Maher
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Why does Bill Maher start the episode with a casual drink chat with Judd Apatow?
How awesome is it that I can drink and talk to Judd Apatow at five in the afternoon. This is this is a this is what you've always wanted. And People say I've been mean to Jesus, but the man does not take offense, apparently. Yes. So do you have a drink? I do have a drink, right here. Oh you do, good. We're joining you. You know, my parents used to Watch the clock. like kids in school waiting for the bell to ring. Yeah. Because like before five, you were fucking drunk. And after five it's cocktails. They hit it hard. People in that that's the Mad Men era, they fucking drank. I don't know if that's your paradigm. My dad'll do that. But not before five. How far would it go? Well, my father was Irish, shall we say. He was tense in his job.
He was a newsman. Yeah. Um so you know, in the days when you had to read the news like with a stopwatch because it was live on the hour on the radio station. It was for a tense job. Yeah. The best conversation I ever had with him was when I was in college and I was stoned and he was drunk.
Yeah.
You know? Uh but he was never somebody who didn't function or was drunk on the job. Yeah. He'd just like you get home and boy, you need to Unwind. You know. And did he mind you unwinding? He was so fucking naive about it. Yeah. One time My friend and I this is the first year I'm smoking pot. What year is this business? This is nineteen seventy five. And you're twelve. Nineteen Nineteen.
And uh Nineteen is the first time you spoke pot? I spoke pot in sixth grade, Bill. Look at me, I'm the straight one between us. We're pot in sixth grade. My best friend Ronnie Garner, his brother, followed the dead, and he grew pot in his room. And so one day we said, Let's smoke that pot, because we were young animals. And no one was paying attention to us. We were like latchkey kids. And so we were so scared we went to where they were building condominiums, like half-built condominiums, like a horror movie. And like we like took like one puff each, and then a security guard was like, You and we ran for like seven miles. I don't think the guy even turned and took a step, but and then that was it for a couple of years.
Young Animals, by the way, is a good title for you. Yes. For something, right? Yeah. Young Animals. I haven't written that movie yet. The sixth, seventh grade here. I would go right around the title. I would just go right for the title, Judd. But uh so listen to this story. My I'm nineteen, we're my first year, you know, I literally would like my friend would when I was home, you know, from on vacation. Yeah. from uh my wonderful time at Cornell. Okay, so I'd be with my friend. He was the one that introduced me to the Pod High School friend. He would come over and we would smoke like in the car in the driveway and then sit in the driveway for an hour 'cause we were just laughing at the glove compartment. I mean, that first year, the drug worked so well, at least it did for me, especially as a laugh drug.
Yeah.
That you ca you're just hysterical. Almost like what mushrooms would be uh later in life. You know, you mushrooms is always a laughing drug. But one time we it was the dead of winter, it's on winter vacation and we're driving Smoking in the car, doing bongs. We had a little bong. We do it at Yeah, we didn't know. Well, I could have been in jail now. So uh We Roll down I say roll down all the windows when you had to roll them down. Yeah. In the Pontiac. Yeah. Dad's Pontiac. Because we gotta air out the car. No seat belts. No seat belts. No airbags. No. Nothing, just our wits. And here's our wits, besides smoking at red lights. So I say roll down all the windows. to to air out the car before we get home. It's like ten degrees out.
We pull in, we forgot about the windows. So my father shoveling snow, he comes over and he says It's ten degrees out. Why are the windows all rolled down? And any other father who wasn't like so trusting in his son would have known why.
Yeah.
And I just said, Oh, uh, he farted.
You know what the the lesson I was your dad was a terrible journalist.
He didn't sniff that out at
all. But it you're right.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why does Bill Maher start the episode with a casual drink chat with Judd Apatow?
0:01–6:11
2
How did Judd recount his teenage pot‑smoking adventure and the chase by the security guard?
6:11–13:03
3
What reasons does Judd give for refusing a DNA test and his concerns about privacy?
13:03–21:07
4
How does the conversation explore the future of human‑machine integration and Ray Kurzweil’s predictions?
21:07–28:47
5
Why is George Carlin’s legacy and the upcoming documentary highlighted in the show?
28:47–35:52
6
What insights are shared about Maude Apatow’s role in “Euphoria” and the family dynamics behind it?
35:52–44:30
7
How do they discuss the challenges of making comedy movies during the pandemic?
44:30–52:10
8
What reflections do they share on fame, legacy, and the next generation of comedians?
52:10–1:03:20