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Club Random with Bill Maher

Sam Harris | Club Random with Bill Maher

3/9/20261 hr 50 min

Bill Maher and Sam Harris go head-to-head on some of the most explosive issues of the moment — and neither pulls punches. Maher defends his dinner with Donald Trump while Harris pushes back hard, sparking a debate that expands into the left’s blind spots, sex differences in sports, media narratives, and the influence of Joe Rogan and podcast culture. Then the conversation turns personal. Harris reflects on nearly losing his home in the Los Angeles fires, while Maher explains why anxiety spirals might actually be a meditation alarm. Along the way they touch on geopolitics, Tucker Carlson, Iran, and the...

Clips

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Two thoughts on Iran
“You were right to”
The no‑win Trump dinner
Was it worth the pain?
Charlie Hebdo litmus test
“Capable of breaking everything”
Charlottesville context mattered
Maher’s case for meeting Trump
Second Amendment silence
Gender apartheid first

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Bill Maher· Host0:00

    I don't know about you, but I'm a big fan of green in all its forms. [laughs] Get it? And for fellow lovers of, well, green, the Club Random merch store has you covered. Uh, grinders, papers, and Zippo lighters [laughs] all designed to support your relationship with green, wink, wink, whatever, and whatever philosophy comes with that for you. H- head to clubrandom.com and bring home some random. That's what we depend on you for- Mm ... Sam.

  2. Sam Harris· Guest0:32

    Thank you.

  3. Bill Maher· Host0:33

    Yeah.

  4. Sam Harris· Guest0:33

    Well, I've, th- I'm glad to bring w- this- No ... painful moral analysis. Club Random.

  5. Bill Maher· Host0:39

    Yeah, I never took it personally. Um- That's, I don't think that's quite true.

  6. Sam Harris· Guest0:43

    I think you did take it personally.

  7. Bill Maher· Host0:44

    I took- And you were right to take it personally.

  8. Sam Harris· Guest0:46

    Club Random.

  9. Bill Maher· Host0:47

    Hey, pal. How are you?

  10. Sam Harris· Guest0:50

    I'm good.

  11. Bill Maher· Host0:50

    I'm glad you could come by.

  12. Sam Harris· Guest0:52

    I've made myself a gin and tonic.

  13. Bill Maher· Host0:53

    Awesome.

  14. Sam Harris· Guest0:54

    I'm ready for you.

  15. Bill Maher· Host0:55

    Oh. One, one big retreat in my life.

  16. Sam Harris· Guest0:58

    Yeah. Isn't this great?

  17. Bill Maher· Host0:59

    Yeah. It's what is the best thing about podcasting, people. Would you and I, if it wasn't a podcast, be sitting here at 5:00 on Wednesday?

  18. Sam Harris· Guest1:08

    Uh, in a perfect world, I hope so. But, you know, I see the, I see the months fly off the- Do you? ... the calendar, yeah.

  19. Bill Maher· Host1:14

    Who, who do you, like, just...

  20. Sam Harris· Guest1:15

    [laughs] Yeah.

  21. Bill Maher· Host1:16

    I mean, when we were 28, you know- Yeah ... like, what are you doing? Nothing. I'm a comedian. What do you mean what am I doing? It's day.

  22. Sam Harris· Guest1:21

    Right. Right.

  23. Bill Maher· Host1:22

    [laughs] What do I do in the day?

  24. Sam Harris· Guest1:23

    Yeah.

  25. Bill Maher· Host1:23

    Nothing.

  26. Sam Harris· Guest1:23

    Yeah.

  27. Bill Maher· Host1:24

    I get stoned to think of material.

  28. Sam Harris· Guest1:26

    [laughs] That's work. [laughs] I hope you wr- wrote that off.

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