Bill Maher's Sleazy Behavior, Navigating Mother's Day Woes, and The Nerve's Book Giveaway Winners

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan

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News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Maureen Callahan slams Bill Maher for his lewd commentary during his latest "Club Random" podcast episode, exposing how he is seemingly incapable of having a respectful conversation with a female guest. While interviewing Dr. Debra Soh about her book "Sexstinction," Bill couldn't seem to stay on point, steering the discussion down a depraved rabbit hole that centered on his insatiable libido, obsession with porn and his hostility toward women. Then Maureen pivots to announce the winners of The Nerve's first book giveaway contest, after sharing Troublemaker submissions on celebrity scandals. Later in the show, Maureen is joined by Meg Josephson, psychotherapist and author of "Are You Mad at Me?" to address Troublemaker questions about how to navigate complicated family dynamics on Mother's Day. Meg Josephson: https://www.instagram.com/megjosephson/ Remi: Go to https://shopremi.com/NERVE and use code NERVE at checkout for 50% off. Wild Alaskan Company: Get $35 off your first box of wild-caught, sustainable seafood—delivered right to your door. Go to: https://www.wildalaskan.com/NERVE Cowboy Colostrum: Get 25% Off Cowboy Colostrum with code MAUREEN at https://www.cowboycolostrum.com/MAUREEN LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos every day: https://bit.ly/4e8j7ml Watch full clips of The Nerve with Maureen Callahan here: http://bit.ly/4n7HuV9 Find the full audio show wherever you get your podcasts: Apple — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify — https://open.spotify.com/show/4kR07GQ... Follow The Nerve with Maureen Callahan on all social platforms: Instagram: / thenerveshow TikTok: / thenerveshow X (Twitter): https://x.com/TheNerveShow Connect with Maureen Callahan on social media: Instagram: / maureen_callahan_writer X (Twitter): https://x.com/DM_Maureen_ Subscribe to our Substack: https://thenerveshow.com/

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0:00.0	In case you are listening, it's a Pomeranian building what I like to think of as a woodshed adjacent structure.
0:17.5	Hello and welcome to your Friday edition of The Nerve. I am your host, Maureen Callahan. We have so much to get to today. Now, very recently I wrote, I wrote on my Instagram account, Maureen Callahan writer, that we were considering reducing Bill Maher's sentence in the woodshed,
0:40.7	if not actually paroling him.
0:44.1	But he's in.
0:46.1	He's in for life, I think, because he's back on his podcast, Club Random.
0:53.5	There's a woman in there who looks like she would really like to leave.
0:58.0	And we're going to go through it together because I was laughing out loud.
1:06.3	Marlena and I were like texts were flying back and forth.
1:09.6	It's so good.
1:10.8	Then we're going to read
1:12.2	some troublemaker feedback and and the winning five entries to our celebrity scandal of
1:20.2	all time contest. Those five winners are going to get a signed copy of Rob Shooter's debut novel. It started with a
1:30.0	whisper. And then later in the show, we're going to cover Mother's Day the Nerve Way.
1:35.0	As mentioned on the Nerve earlier, Mother's Day can be very difficult for very many of us out here.
1:41.7	And it's never, ever discussed in the culture, okay?
1:47.2	Meg Josephson, who has been on the nerve before, you guys love her, we love her.
1:52.5	Psychotherapist and author of the bestselling book, Are You Mad at Me?
1:56.1	Is going to be joining us answering your questions that you emailed in, and they are so good.
2:03.3	This is going to be so fascinating, and I think it's going to help so many of us.
2:08.9	Are you ready?
2:10.1	Are you ready?
2:11.8	Let's go.
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