While Bill Maher is claiming credit for swaying Pres. Trump towards reclassifying cannabis, Marc Maron's taking issue with his fellow podcaster and host of Real Time.
Referring to Maher as a Boomer, Maron comments on Jon Lovitz's Pod Save America show:
"I feel with Bill there's this desperate chasing of relevance . . . in terms of how they approach what they do and also kind of makes the whole undertaking feel deparate."
Maron's biggest dilemma with Maher is his crusade against wokeness:
"It's just not for me . . . I can't see past the desperation in what he's willing to do to stay in the conversation."
Ever since Maher visited Trump at the White House in April, he's been offering insights on Real Time and Club Random into what the president really thinks. Now that rescheduling marijuana from I to III is back on the table (Joe Biden initially asked for that change), Maher believes he's had something to do with that, noting at the end of the Season 23, Ep. 23 monologue, "And they say it wasn't smart to have dinner with him."
In the latest episode (No. 24), Maher picked up where he left off: "I’ve been telling Democrats for years that Republicans are going to steal pot from you as an issue…”
Maron on Maher: "I can't see past the desperation in what he's willing to do to stay in the conversation."
Maher contends Trump "is the master of winning votes from small groups who are passionate about one issue." In this case, he's referring to marijuana legalization. The previous White House's inaction, thanks to DEA obstruction, has opened the door for Trump to make the issue his own.
Some even think Trump will go so far as to deschedule pot – meaning removing it from the Controlled Substances Act altogether and hence legalizing it federally.
Schedule III classification would primarily accept medical use as beneficial and help businesses by allowing them to take tax deductions.
Back to Maron, who says he's "always had a problem with [Maher's] tone."
During Trump's two terms, Maher has gradually moved from the left to the middle, enraging his progressive fans who've left the show in droves. What Maher has lost has balanced out with gains from the conservative audience that gets most of its news from Fox.
In 2022, Maher told Joe Rogan:
"People say to me: 'Don't you think you've gotten more conservative?' No, I haven't. The left has gotten goofier. So, I seem more conservative maybe, but it's not me who changed."
Maron, who's ending his popular WTF podcast by the end of 2025, has been having a big year, with his latest HBO special Panicked, a cover story in The Hollywood Reporter and a plum role as Owen Wilson's sidekick on Apple TV+'s golf series, Stick.
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