Real Time with Bill Maher guests - Friday, September 26, 2025

[Rhiannon12866]

Real Time with Bill Maher continues its 23rd season Friday, September 26th (10:00-11:00 p.m. live ET/7:00-8:00 p.m. PT), with a replay at 12:05 a.m., exclusively on HBO.

This week features a one-on-one interview with Aiden Walker, content creator, internet culture researcher, and author of the Substack newsletter How To Do Things With Memes.

This week's in-studio panel discussion will include Michael Smerconish, host of Smerconish on CNN and The Michael Smerconish Program on SiriusXM; and Rep. Nancy Mace, Republican congresswoman from South Carolina’s 1st district who also sits on the Armed Services, Veterans’ Affairs, and Oversight committees.

[Prairie Gates]

1. Fuck Bill Maher

[Abolishinist]

9. Interesting, usually by this time

someone has come forward offering sloppy seconds. In fact, last week there were thirds and fourths as well.

Where oh where did they go?

[question everything]

2. I don't know who Aiden Walker is. Smerconish should be interesting but Mace?

I hope that at least the monologue and new rules will be.

Thank you for posting and perseverance

[maxsolomon]

3. He's probably having Walker on to explain the ICE & Kirk shooters' Meme-culture refs

for us normies.

He should not platform Mace. She's clinically insane.

[themaguffin]

11. If the meme person elaborates on Fuentes stuff, that should be something the media in general should cover...

There really should have been broader coverage of the Fuentes related memes etc linked to the Kirk shooter.

[UTUSN]

8. Yip, cherrypicking is the Answer!

[Abolishinist]

4. We'll be watching!

If for no other reason than to check out AIDAN Walker (they misspelled his name). Not familiar with him so I looked up How To Do Things With Memes. At first glance he seems to be an extremly bright, interesting person. After perusing his site I'm checking it out later when I have more time.

An example regarding AI and Capitalism...
https://howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com/p/ai-seeks-to-end-capitalism

A term he coined, Slop Capitalism...

Slop capitalism is an economic and cultural system in which the primary product is slop and the primary activity is the destruction of value rather than its creation. Platforms suck nowadays, and it’s on purpose because they get more money for breaking stuff and keeping it broken than for building stuff.

https://howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com/p/slop-capitalism

Smerconish could be OK, but not Mace.

Oh well, there's still the opening and New Rules, thanks for posting!

[question everything]

5. kick

[Beaverhausen]

6. Nancy Mace?

gross.

[question everything]

7. One more kick

[question everything]

10. Not one of his better program