Podcast #522, Politics: Mr. Maher Goes to Washington
Drunk Ex-Pastors
Christian Kingery
4.7 • 565 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this week's DXP Politics Block we discuss Bill Maher's recounting of his visit to the White House and spending a few hours with his mortal enemy, Donald Trump. We reflect on Maher's surprising (even to him) account of Trump's behavior and overall demeanor, as well as the question of whether he should have accepted the invitation in the first place.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up? |
| 0:02.0 | How you doing? |
| 0:03.0 | Yeah, I'm doing all right. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm feeling a little trepidatious and unsettled from that Wall Street Journal article |
| 0:11.0 | last week still, the one about my company possibly merging with another company because I don't |
| 0:19.0 | know what that means for my future, but that's |
| 0:23.1 | weird. That's a weird place to be in because I've just, I've been at the same place for 13 years, |
| 0:26.2 | you know, and I just expect that I would be there until I was ready to retire. And I kind of backed |
| 0:31.8 | into the job I have anyway, you know, like it wasn't like I was like out really looking to |
| 0:36.7 | find a long-term career at a |
| 0:39.1 | company. It's like I was looking for six months of work to help me get through a rough period of my own company. And then I ended, now it's 13 years later and I've been there the whole time. But it's turned into a good career and a great company and I like the people I work with and everything. So it's, yeah, it's just a little, feeling a little unsettled and like, oh man, |
| 0:56.9 | what am I going to do? Glad I learned. and a great company and I like the people I work with and everything. So it's, yeah, it's just a little |
| 0:54.8 | feeling a little unsettled and like, oh man, what am I going to do? Glad I learned how to bartend. |
| 1:00.1 | Yeah, if it makes you feel any better, I don't have a 13 year track record of doing anything. |
| 1:06.1 | Right. Literally everything I've done. That is your track 13 years that's your track record your track record |
| 1:11.4 | is decades 13 different you have had a 13 year track record I've had 13 failed attempts at a life |
| 1:19.8 | right so you know but kind of the same on the flip side of things your life has pretty been |
| 1:25.9 | has been pretty awesome in some ways, you know? |
| 1:28.8 | Like you have plenty of time to read to like do what you want to do |
| 1:33.8 | as long as it doesn't involve a much of money. |
| 1:36.6 | Like I have had money to do what I want to do, |
| 1:39.3 | but not a lot of time to do it, you know? |
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