Ep. #742: Jessica Tarlov, Kevin Roose, Christopher Rufo
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What is Bill Maher’s opening monologue about gas prices and Trump’s attitude?
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I uh first wanna say thank you if you're here, uh, because the price of gas is at an all time high, so unless you walked here to the studio I assume it cost you something to get here. Yeah, so it's like six dollars a gallon here. And uh Trump, I gotta tell you this guy, he is a different kind of politician. Normally the the president when the gas prices are higher, like we're sorry, we're gonna do anything we can. Trump is like stop your bitching. Really? He's He said it yesterday, he said it's a very inexpensive price for what we're getting done in Iran. And this is while he was campaigning. Uh Really? Apparently for the Democrats.
But yeah, that's his
This is his attitude. Stop your bitching about all high prices, not just gas, beef, everything else that's high. He says save your money somewhere else. Buy bargain brands, get your own snacks at the movies. If your son is getting remarried, have the Russians pay for it. There are ways. A ways to cut down on your budget. But you know Diesel, uh which I never use but I uh they they use it in trucks. That's at an all time high. And you know, when the trucks cost more money, everything goes up because trucks bring everything here, so that raises the price of everything. Everybody's paying more. Macklemore today uh had to Had to pay an arm and a leg for a giant fake prosthetic Jew nose. Are you not following that story?
I I I see people what what what what is he talking about? What wha I is that is that s insulting? Is he right? Is he Okay, if you're not following this, uh Ed Sheeran, you know him? Same people are like, who the fuck is that? Okay. Asha, big big big big rock star. Apparently he's old buddies with McLamore from fifteen years ago back when McLamore had his one hit. Uh so So Ed Sheeran let McLemore be his opening act in on his tour. And when I say act, I mean a guy who goes out there and repeats lies about how Gaza is a genocide. I proved it last week with facts and figures, not that they care, but that's a lie. One hundred, thank you. Uh and the lie about, you know, we're we're only supporting the Palestinians, even the river to the sea means all all Jews die.
Okay, so Robert Kraft, uh who is a s a rich guy, owns the Patriots, owns the stadium where m this concert was about to take place, he was understandably offended by this and he said, You can't play my stadium. So now Macklemore's fans hate Ed Sheeran. Ed Sheron's own band won't play with him and uh Ed Sheron needs a new opening act. So today Britney Spears said, Hold on a minute, I c I can juggle a few things.
Uh
And look I I see a story like this and I'm like, I honestly don't care if AI kills us all. I really don't. It's just s everyone is just so stupid. Listen to this. AOC was asked uh yesterday, would she uh change the channel on the radio if Ed Sheeran came on and she said yes, yes I would. You know what AOC? Way ahead of you. I've always changed the channel when it's Uh but really I Really, I don't care if AIC AI kills kills us all, because our brains, oh, by the way, here's a great story. And then this is actually big news. Would have been bigger news if it wasn't all this going on. Uh Stanford uh the researchers found out that the major discovery, our brain is really two brains. It's two organs. That's what they call the hinn brain, which carries out basic functions of life.
And the other one uh gets you to gamble when you see Yeah. Um AI AI just have at it. Really AI. I don't care anymore. This situ but this AI situation has become so alarming that the leaders of the AI companies now have come forward to say we need a slowdown and we need greater safety controls, which can only mean one thing. We're already fucked. And There's gonna be a big President Xi of China, who's the big rival with AI, he's coming and all the AI techs are gonna be there with him.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is Bill Maher’s opening monologue about gas prices and Trump’s attitude?
0:01–7:26
2
How does Kevin Roose explain the early ChatGPT scandal and AI mis‑alignment?
7:26–14:18
3
What are the six new instances of AI mis‑alignment that the guests discuss?
14:18–21:52
4
How did the Hugging Face hack‑up unfold and why is it significant?
21:52–28:29
5
Why does President Trump claim AI needs no guardrails, and what do the panelists think?
28:29–35:13
6
What is the panel’s view on the U.S.–China AI race and potential global fallout?
35:13–43:02
7
How do the guests assess the political fallout around the Ed Sheeran/Macklemore concert controversy?
43:02–50:29
8
What are the final takeaways on AI safety, economic collapse, and the next four years of politics?
50:29–58:07
Speakers
1 identifiedMore from Real Time with Bill Maher
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