Bill Maher + Jay Chandrasekhar (Carolla Classics)

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**SPEAKER_3** (1:28)
At first, I didn't think it was real.

**Giovanni** (1:39)
Come with me if you want to live.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:41)
There were thousands of movies and shows, and they were all free.

**Adam Carolla** (1:44)
The truth is out there.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:45)
It's just so beautiful.

**Jay Chandrasekhar** (1:47)
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**SPEAKER_6** (1:59)
Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on, no choice, but to get it on. Mandate, get it on, and sitting here in Bill Maher's home theater.
Got a nice ring to it, doesn't it? Home theater.

**Bill Maher** (2:10)
Well, you know, Adam, we put away our pennies.

**SPEAKER_6** (2:13)
Sure. Growing up, did you ever think you'd have a home theater?

**Bill Maher** (2:17)
Well, you know, I was a kid who dreamed big dreams when I heard the train pass by in my bed at night. Oh, no, that was Nixon. I did that. I didn't have a train near my house.

**SPEAKER_6** (2:29)
I am curious about your background. I don't know where you grew up. I do know something about your early years, but since it's a sort of one-on-one format, could we just go back? Where'd you grow up? What did you want to do when you were in high school?

**SPEAKER_8** (2:44)
All that good stuff.

**Bill Maher** (2:47)
Yes, we can, of course. I'm an open book, Adam, you know that.

**SPEAKER_6** (2:51)
I do.

**Bill Maher** (2:52)
And we're going to pretend you don't know everything about me that we have discussed already on our many mandates. But for the sake of the audience, yes.
I grew up in New Jersey. I had what I would call the last Leave it to Beaver upbringing in America.

**SPEAKER_6** (3:08)
Bill's dog's on top of me right now, by the way. Yeah, your dad did what?

**Bill Maher** (3:13)
My dad was in radio, radio news, in the days when every news station had news at the top of the hour, you know. So at every hour on the hour, every station had to give you what five minutes of what was going on in the world. And he was one of those guys.
So we lived in a little bedroom community in Northern New Jersey, a suburb of New York. He would commute every day, drive down to the George Washington Bridge, drive across it, park in Harlem, basically in, no, not Harlem, Washington Heights, and then take the subway down to Midtown, where the radio station was.

**SPEAKER_6** (3:54)
I should tell everyone listening, by the way, that Bill Maher is doing a stand-up special, Crazy Stupid Politics, which will be live from Silicon Valley. And he's going to stream it.
It's all part, it's today, essentially. It's Thursday, February 23rd. But tonight, for most of people that are listening, it's 7.3 Pacific, 10.3 Eastern. Part of, well, it's sort of brand new and it's sort of old, because I was thinking back of the closed-circuit fights between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman or whatever. People would gather in the Milwaukee Arena and watch it because it couldn't be in Zaire.

**Bill Maher** (4:30)
True. Well, I mean, this is what I did. I've done nine HBO specials, and they were always stand-up. And this is basically what I used to do if I was ready to do an HBO special. But I thought, since HBO has me 35 weeks a year, and people know me on that station, let's go somewhere where we can make new fans and new people. And I thought, Yahoo has a tremendous reach. And I've always, always wanted to be on a network. That's the same word as the word I shout out when I'm coming. So there you have it. That's why I'm on Yahoo.