For good. Only for good. Nothing bad about listening to those with wisdom and experience.

I agree and I'm 72 so I know everything,or did for awhile.

They Disagree on lots of topics. But at the same time crack each other up laughing non stop including myself.

Vivek was entertaining, in the same way mentally ill people can be entertaining

And Joni Michell’s lyrics which were more like poetry said “the more you learn the less you know”

yep. and a communist

I am not surprised. I have been in really good bands all my adult life. I have always said that the best thing about being in a band is working with talented musicians, and the worse thing about being in a band is working with talented musicians.

33 mins in and he is full of shit. I'll skip this one.

I liked him up until this interview. It's amazing how money can keep a person from growing. Is the fighting stuff all an act--probably. John--cut back on the smoking, and coke. I still want to believe there's a guy I respect under all that BS.

@@Simon-talks LOL!!! Yeah, any NON FASCIST must be a "communist". Did he "fall in love" with Kim Jun Un? Nope, that was trump.

Exactly, I’ve been saying this for years , I have a few friends that are the way opposite with me on views and we will hash it out and two min later we are still friends , “agree to disagree “ 🤷‍♂️💯

Yeah. John denies climate change, something near and dear to Bill's heart and he barely challenged him on it. I've seen Bill lose his shit on other people for even mildly suggesting that climate change might be exaggerated. Bill was way too easy on him. But Bill is a scatter brain that can't stay on topic for more than 10 seconds. He asks a question then cuts off the answer before any real point is made. He either answers his own questions or totally shifts to a different one.

He never notices when the guest looks at his hands grabbing the ice and did he wash them ; )

😂😂😂

OMG yes!

I know! And how come he wasent lighting his blunts?

Maybe take him to aa

Cougar is a little tough guy. Ignorant and reminds me of people I’ve known and cut away from over the years. I don’t like him.

Lol @ big nose blues

good burn, sort of… when was business, the other was family

DON'T BIG UP BUMBOCLOD Vagrancy LAWS

Affffrican, not blacks, dudes

Thanks for saving me a chore 😂

And he’s still the Cougar! … whether he wants to be or not! 😂

Yup. Scarecrow is still to this day one of my favourite albums!

He’s still so cute!!

WAS? IS?

Yep..and I still love him!

He sure seems to feel like he has to defend it a lot, doesn't he? Guilt does that to people 😂.

Almost made it to 5 min. 😂

Looks like about 6 min 😂

Usually a bit before he brings up Trump and tries to get his guest to disavow him.

😂😂😂👍

Yes I found him likeable but then also irritating.

@@RachelJane101I think that’s him in a nutshell.

Mellencamp can be classified as a “straight shooter” they can be brutally honest and sometimes irritating. Overall I like him as he is.

You love everything

You can tell John wanted to smack the shit out of Bill a few times..he does need a good ass kicking.

How did he set him straight?

@@will-i-am386 he shut up for a second (one of the few times Bill does) and actually listened to the story and explained that his dad didn't wear over-alls and carry a pitch-fork. Rather, he wore a suit. What a wonderful interview. No one gets all access Mellencamp.

@ethanwagner5603 so obviously, you are a John fan and don't watch Bill. He didn't shut him up. it's called having a conversation, which he does every week multiple times. John M came out looking like just another uneducated thinker, but to each their own. I see nowhere he was set straight on anything.

Race race race race....who wants to FRUCKING RACE??!!! Sooooo tired of racing every time I turn on the TV/phone/EVERYTHING!

I nearly fell outta my chair-John is the ONLY one to broach that. It kinda bugged me-it looked like he was raising or lowering a volume?! Or controlling a teleprompter; just like John said.

It’s not a buckle belt grabbing, he puts his thumb on his buckle and he pokes himself above his penis. It’s absolutely bizarre. He’s been doing it for years and it’s usually something he does when he’s expecting the audience to laugh. It’s almost like a soothing tick that he does when he thinks he’s landed a joke well. Watch the other fingers poke in right above his penis.

Mellencamp is an interviewer's challenge. The stupid comments by Bill is astounding. His use of logical fallacies is ridiculous.

Kid Rock was better, and he has a million more views..

Sometimes, an intelligent person comes across as arrogant when that is not their intention. It might be more about the perception of others when around people who seem to know 'stuff' than it is about a knowledgeable or reasonably well-educated person's personality.

Ppl rarely appreciate their parents until they are gone

Talk this out many times over with a good friend or a therapist, not in Comments...

before I watch, I bet bill doesn't pull any of his suck my dick jokes w john!

He’s as cool as The Rolling Stone

Bob Marley, Jackson Browne, Garcia/Hunter, Peter Tosh, Vincente Fernandez, Javier Solice, Fry/Henley, John Denver, Billy Joel, Winston Rodney, McCartney/Lenon, Taupin/John, Cougar-Mellencamp, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Stevie Nicks, Adele, Sting, Janis Joplin, Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Bono/The Edge, Alicia Keys, Mark Knopfler, Marvin Gaye, Springsteen, Hugh Mundell, Ziggy Marley, Louis Armstrong, Tracy Chapman, Bowie,......?

I was prepared to not like this. Mind changed. I don’t like his songs. Take or leave.

Hell Yeah 🙌

I would have jumped off the roof if I hat to listen to "sucking on chili dogs behind the tasty freeze."

wrong album@@juicebox853

😆😆😆

@@juicebox853 Not on 'Scarecrow', so not likely you'd be hearing it just then.

Also, the violence problem is part SENSATIONALIZING these shootings and I noticed it during columbine. Literally a month of constant coverage and several more of heavy coverage. Stop making stupid people infamous and giving sick mental cases grand ideas. But I agree with showing it at an age appropriate time. It, at the very least, will give an enormous respect for the capability of wielding such a weapon. THIS is the problem. There is a huge disconnect between cause and effect. We effectively have not done the things we believe fucked us up in our childhoods during their upbringings and given them "better childhoods" but some of that traumatic shit made us tough. Made us grow up. Made us cynical and scrutinizing. Suspicious. Gave us drinking issues and shitty coping mechanisms, definitely, but made us bulletproof in other areas. We knew how to take care of ourselves early on because we had to. Our folks worked and a nanny was not a word in our vocabulary. Our spawn have no idea because they were not allowed to ride their bikes further than eye shot. We found our friends by the pile of bikes in so and so's yard 2.5 miles away from our own. We were not allowed to hang at home or we were given chores but had to be back by streetlights or we were grounded doing chores anyway. And they have had technology from day one. Some even phones since they were old enough to push buttons. . And when I hear gen Z say they hate America and I question their phrasing to assume they mean the government and they say NO, they actually hate this country, it's obvious they have no idea what the fuck they are talking about and we missed the mark by a fucking lot. I asked my kid if she would say that in front of a homeless veteran that came back from war having witnessed unspeakable horror and even participated, coming back messed up in the head likely causing their homelessness, would she repeat those words out loud for them to hear while they ask for change for a meal and when she replied yes, I was sickened. I am the grand daughter, step daughter, cousin and niece of several vets and somehow my own child has no connection to the meaning of our flag. I am 100% taking accountability for my part in this, but even with mine in college now, she still lives with me so I am doing what I can to correct some things without being pushy about it. Teaching by example and being vocal about it. Otherwise, it will have the opposite outcome in major rebellion since she's 20 and knows all. But wow. Boy did I drop the ball. All of her friends share the same or similar beliefs, to boot. Which leads me to think... So we didn't pay enough attention to what they were learning in school, as well. I felt like I didn't have room to be too overbearing, though, since she was an A student. I gave her space as she grew and gave me no reason to be nosy. It was a respect for boundaries well earned, but only to an extent since I am her mother and responsible for her well-being, obviously, but still. Bit of a fumble on the academic front, I think. But I always did tell her to learn everything to pass the tests, but take everything that isn't math and science (to an extent) with a grain of salt because it's all subjective to the spin of the instructor. QUESTION EVERYTHING INCLUDING AUTHORITY. And when she was stubborn AF and drove me batshit, I didn't try too hard to correct it out of her because I knew it would serve her well in adulthood, and to this day she doesn't do anything she doesn't want to do. That includes drinking and drugs. STILL straight edge in 3rd year of college. (Took up weed in senior year of HS, but all things considered, I see that as therapeutic given the anxiety she inherited. And doesn't go crazy with it.) She works full time, does school full time, and pays her way except room and utilites. Small inconveniences for huge victories. Not all was screwed up. But there are glaring holes in her worldview, no doubt. So yes, show them. Stop sheltering them when it is appropriate to do so. And don't hold back. Or they will learn it incorrectly or from some skewed point of view like their own and I'm not certain they were actually taught HOW to think but rather told WHAT to think. I know. TL;DR.

But if you include people who are applying and actually want to work then it’s probably accurate. So that kinda negate your point

​@@whiskeysquikerwhy are you sharing this here? Tell a therapist or a good friend. Educate your self, read up on how to parent well but dont stop with the first book that agrees with you... when your kid has to make their own way in the world, maybe then they will learn respect instead of her arguing with a parent just to be argumentative. Marijuana is still a drug and if she is not 26 yet she should not be on that drug, till the cerebral cortex is formed fully at mid 25+yo.

Sort of

Mellencamp is ALWAYS 1 for the BOOKS 😊

I read it years ago because I was a fan of Carson's, but man, he was an ass.

Bro, i was going to write that too! Wasn't expecting it either

I know, I love Club Boomer also! It's like Estrogen for the ears! please get more delusional old small dudes talking about subjects they clearly have only a surface-level understanding of. I never went to community college, but this podcast gives me the sense that I'm listening to the 3rd or 4th smartest kids in a poli sci class talking to each other before they go back home, where they will continue not reading books, but also be defensive about being profoundly misinformed.

I guess his image isn't the same as the truth because several years ago my eldest daughter who is a serious brainiac (she holds two Masters and Phd in science and is a geneticist now and just made me a first time Grandma!) called me one night and asked me "Do you know who John Mellencamp is?" Being a teenager of the 80's I got very excited because he was allover radio and MTV so I was like, "Of course!" then started rattling off his songs that she had probably heard. As part of her academic scholarship she had to do assistant teaching and tutoring underclassmen and she was tutoring his son. Not only did she say the son was super nice and not arrogant or stuck up (he played football if I recall) but she also spoke to the Dad, Mellencamp himself, who was super thankful to her for tutoring his son. She was kind of shocked he was so famous because he just seemed like a super caring father, not a famous rock star at all LOL I was like, well that makes me feel good because I bought several of his records so it was money well spent. I don't think young people today know just how HUGE he was back in the 80's and 90's.

@@vaskylark Very good to hear. Thanks for sharing that.

John is a great story teller and an awesome guest…he and Maher bounce off each other really well. Both old assholes 😂. Really enjoyed this one. Enjoy watching two friends just talk shit to each other. The new album is superb by the way.

Jeez Zak! What a spot on assessment. I was 11 in 85, final furlongs of me childhood had begun. Not an American, but I used to visit on a regular basis and couldn’t agree more

@@maturanita Thanks . I mean the feel of Pink Houses and Born in the USA had the same sorta plight . As a kid I thought they were thump your US chest songs , but would later learn different . Adams Summer 69 to Bruce’s Thunder Road , coming of age . I really like some of Johns latest work , Save Some Time to Dream and Longest Days . I’m a forty something year old former 0311 Marine, subsequently tattooed father of 2 boys now . I still get Johnny Cougars words ..

@@zakkjagneaux2600 Semper Fidelis mate, always. I am a former soldier myself, when I inhabited a young kid’s body back in 1992. Escuela de Lanceros, Melgar, Colombia.

Bob Marley?- Caucasian much?

You're not kidding today's Top 40 is shit. 99% of it is actually annoying to hear. No guitars, laptop generated "beats", dominated by the vocal, no bridge, too quick to get to the chorus which is repeated too often. Just not catchy or memorable.

I noticed that too, I guess Bill must really respect him... even though he disrespected him a good number of times.

I’d say John didn’t let Bill do his usual bs.

John doesn’t take bs from anyone

Bill’s not smoking pot either.

YES! People who say Bill over talks guests must admit it’s the guests with little real flavor, he didn’t interrupt Cube, Mellencamp or Peterson there’s a reason …

Paper and Fire, hits the spot.

Authority Song all the way

Speak for yourself, lol

Yeah, I was, ya cretin. @@laureencriss8220

​@@TheBohell yeah, i play it every other gig

That’s what makes it entertaining. He reminds me of my 64 year old brother who was a green beret for 29 years and yet is a very narrow liberal.

I never heard him talk before. I didn’t realize how nuts he was.

moronic!!! He is like talking to an mega republican

I don't know about that... when he kept saying... "... it's the goment!" over and over...

@@HH-gv8mxlol right he’s a boomer still trying to be cool.

Very down to earth.

You can live and breathe in a small town

That's probably where they'll bury him...

Definitely small town education

He's not that nice. I have someone in my family that knew his granddaughter - she said he was a jerk. Same thing has been said about him from many others in Bloomington, IN, where people have run into him in public.

I think you are off by at least 10 years there, bub.

Thanks, bub.

IKR That was bazaar 😂

Jm logic equatable to a fart in a windstorm

I had the biggest crush on his guitarist back then but I was but a child. 😂 Although the fact that he said his band (like others) was given lists of the age of consent in each state so they could know how young the girls could be legally is mind blowing. So maybe I wasn’t too young after all lol. But it’s so cool you got to see them when they were just starting out!

Did you also learned how much of a virtue signaler and ignorant he is ?? Stating that 1% or 2% of blacks are better off than slavery?

Since you are a fan, ask Mellencamp for some of his wealth since he loves communism so much.

Me too. This was great!

Keep your politics to yourself I just lost all respect to the man who doesn't stand for national anthem is he was videotaped at arena ain't that America what a sellout

Is it just me or is Bill as stoned as I am?

your so pretty...@Loralarify,,,,,Loralarify ,love that name tooo,,!!!!!

And for me....this was the WORSE of the Club Random with Bill Maher. Mellencamp is TOO DRY and never even laughs.

just not the part where he's a communist

The joke there is, you never had to pick a side in the first place.

It was so funny! 😂

But could you do it without kicking his ass? I couldn't

Good listener Bill even with Johns random comments….

Irie' (!)

Right On (!) (Oregon expression :))

I thank you for your service more than that other branch of government that everyone always thanks. Respect

thank you for your service to the community bro!

lessgo jacob! keep the toilets flushing? what a COMPLIMENT.😊

Welcome to KZfaq?

Jon Hamm is my favorite. I’ll be sure to watch those that you listed. Thank you!

Would love to see those.

You're right..... and nobody wants to hear about it.

It sucks.

@@ptturboe5792 quite the art critic.

​@@ptturboe5792you are wrong

We have more guns than any country and more gun deaths so what amt of guns gets us to being "safe enough"?

just not the part where he's a communist

You mean his handlers did.

@@ThisWholeWorld100cynical, like John.

How cool is that!?

but likely true@@willardswelding7243

you are kidding right? you are nuts!

He is a solid musician, no doubt. A good lyricist.

His mother should have swallowed him ! I hope he don’t have any more kids

"You know John has that quote tattoed on his right arm just below his elbow"..."Thankyou very much"!!! "Wayne Goodger"!!! "Australia"!!!👍😝🤠🇦🇺

Describe woke?

@@Anthony__420 someone that is directed daily, weekly, on what the new assignment is to push as normal and to act outraged over while calling the right, that has the same beliefs as 4 decades ago that THEY have become extremists. Pushing ideas outside the norm while pretending that they are normal ideas.

@@badapple65 by whom? Fox News? News Max? Just wondering cause they mostly spread lies. Fox just paid about a billion dollars to dominion for spreading falsehoods and Now my pillow and Rudi are being sued too. Anyone who gets involved with trump loses Bigley

Woke ? U mean someone who is not homophobic, not racist, not a bigot? Not some one who bitches about using a preferred pronoun or wearing a mask during a pandemic?? Maybe someone who sees culture, like life, as something progressive in place of stagnant?? Yeah. When JM recommends the Communist Manifesto & enters a liberal level that Bill cant deal with, Id say thats enough to earn his woke credentials lol. 😄lol

Did you not watch the Interview?? John is most definitely a liberal and leans to woke. I actually don't want to listen to his friggin music anymore after this interview. Fake ass country boy, liberal...it gets worse and worse the more he talks

I don't think that's a very fair example. I bet plenty of boomers would snap answer that it's winter since December is thought of a winter month.

I'm not disagreeing with you but I'll also point out that I swear the majority of Americans think summer starts around Memorial Day when the weather gets warm when in reality it starts the third week of June. And I disagree with Bill that kids don't know their SS # -- they have to use it so often that they definitely have it memorized. They need it to apply for jobs, college, credit cards, etc. so they learn it quickly.

Yes, I conure, but often parents don't know much because we've been expecting more fom schools in the last seventy years while at the same time giving them less money and resources. So, not surprising that general knowledge among the general population seems to be declining. Some people are indeed stupid, but I think most are just undereducated and not taught thinking skills in early education. We are getting what we've paid for.

@@teresaparnham9780The problems with the education system is not lack of funding. Education is not and never been the goal, blind loyalty and obedience is.

Become a teacher.

This is how I feel about his statements about the education system today. He says “I talk to young people” as if that explains how he’s right. It’s not perfect, but teachers are miracle workers, considering all the pressure they’re under these days to not teach real history.

yes, he lost touch with the people where he grew up with a long time ago. Some like Clooney, still have parents in small town they visit, they remember even if in luxury now. Bill needs to talk to "real" people more.