Overtime with Bill Maher: Dr. Phil & Stephen A. Smith (HBO)

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Donald Trump, Punksatani Phil, Stephen A. Smith, Truth Social
2. 3:00 – 6:00: Artificial Intelligence, Stephen A. Smith, Google LLC
3. 6:00 – 9:00: Ten Commandments, Punksatani Phil, Bill Mah, Elon Musk
4. 9:00 – 12:00: Ten Commandments, WNBA

Notable quotes from "Overtime with Bill Maher: Dr. Phil & Stephen A. Smith (HBO)"

• Trump says he probably won't run in 2028. It's It's patently illegal. but he probably Can we take him at his word? No. I actually don't think he's going to.

  about Donald Trump · at 0:21

• Look, I think it's really dangerous, but I think look, less than half of the counties in the United States even have a psychiatric nurse or some kind of resource. And you know for some.

  about Artificial Intelligence · at 2:24

• Somebody the other day asked it, What's Bill Maher's best standup special? It picked wrong.

  about Bill Mah · at 5:21

• You're doing it yourself, you come across as a flame hypocrite. whoever programmed it. Elon, the one on X, it thinks Hitler's a good guy.

  about Elon Musk · at 6:57

• Texas will now require that public school classrooms display the Ten Commandments. Is that a violation of the separation of church and state?

  about Ten Commandments · at 7:54

• Absolutely true. But I don't know what has to do with this. Okay. That's not really on the same. Okay. a crypto group has taken credit for the wave of dildo. Oh yes.

  about WNBA · at 10:23

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Donald Trump — Person · Primary referenced political figure · 3 mentions · first at 0:21
  Central to the segment debating whether he would attempt to retain power/influence beyond 2028 and how he could control GOP politics via social media.
• Punksatani Phil — Person · Panelist / referenced expert (mental health commentary) · 3 mentions · first at 0:03
  Provides the most detailed expert-style commentary on risks of AI therapy and later weighs in on Ten Commandments in classrooms.
  I don't That's the way fathers like that are. They just are probably Dr. Phil, what do you think of more people turning to AI for therapy in instead of seeking out licensed professionals?
• Stephen A. Smith — Person · Panelist / commentator · 3 mentions · first at 0:06
  Contributes political analysis about Trump's control over the GOP and later comments on AI manipulation and social isolation risks.
  All right. He is the founder of Enboy Media and podcast host, Dr. Phil, and he's the host of ESPN's First Take, Stephen A. Smith, and the next president of the United.
• Vladimir Putin — Person · Referenced political leader (analogy) · 1 mention · first at 0:39
  Serves as the historical analogy for a power-retention strategy (Putin/Medvedev job-switch) that a speaker predicts Trump could emulate.
  He's going to do what Putin did with Medbedv. Medbedv was his whatever prime minister. They switched jobs and he was really the president while Putin pretended he wasn't. And that's.
• Bill Mah — Person · Panelist / self-referential subject of joke · 1 mention · first at 6:24
  Used as an example of AI giving a questionable 'opinion' (picking the wrong standup special), supporting the broader claim that chatbots are unreliable and biased.
• Andrew Sullivan — Person · Referenced journalist/commentator · 1 mention · first at 0:36
  Cited as having written a similar argument about Trump using a Putin/Medvedev-style power arrangement.
  Word? No. I actually don't think he's going to run. I've been saying this and I see Andrew Sullivan wrote it about it today.
• Elon Musk — Person · Referenced tech executive (AI example) · 1 mention · first at 7:00
  Invoked as an example of how an AI system associated with X can produce extreme/unsafe outputs, reinforcing the segment's warning about AI unreliability.

Companies & orgs

• Truth Social — Company · Business focus · 1 mention · first at 1:01
  Discussed as a platform Trump uses to influence policy and maintain control over the Republican party.
  Through social media. If President Vance or President Rubio doesn't do something he likes, all he has to do is get on Truth Social and tear him a new and the policy will change.
• Google LLC — Company · Incidental · 1 mention · first at 4:59
  Mentioned in passing regarding its AI's reported depression problem.
  You're both being too gentle on it. I read today Google's AI has a depression problem.

Concepts & topics

• Artificial Intelligence — Concept · Core topic · 1 mention · first at 4:27
  Discussed as a tool for therapy and its potential dangers, including bias and misinformation.
• Ten Commandments — Concept · Key argument · 3 mentions · first at 7:56
  Debated as a controversial requirement in Texas public schools, questioning its relevance and omissions.

Places & events

• WNBA — Event · Case study · 1 mention · first at 10:38
  Mentioned in the context of a controversial marketing stunt involving dildo throwing, reflecting on sexist attitudes.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:01 All right. He is the founder of Enboy Media and podcast host, Dr. Phil, and he's the host of ESPN's First Take, Stephen A. Smith, and the next president of the United. Well, I'm telling you, it's going to all start up again on Monday. You're going to see. It is what it is. It is what it is, and we will see. Okay. Uh Trump says he probably won't run in 2028. It's It's patently illegal. Uh, but he probably Can we take him at his word? No. I mean, I actually don't think he's going to run. I I've been saying this and I see Andrew Sullivan wrote it about it today.

0:39 He's going to do what Putin did with Medbedv. Medbedv was his whatever prime minister. They switched jobs and he was really the president uh while while Putin pretended he wasn't. And that's what Trump is going to do. And Trump can control this country the way he does now through social media. If if President Vance or President Rubio doesn't do something he likes, all he has to do is get on Truth Social and and tear him a new and the policy will change. I don't think it's Listen, he can do that. He can choose to do it that way.

1:12 But the fact is his popularity is so exponentially higher than everybody else within the Republican party that the level of control, like you said, he can sit up there and step away. But he wants to maintain control over the party. He wants to make sure that there are people out there doing his bidding, that of his family, that of his interest, whatever that may be. And there is nobody within the GOP that can stop him. No. Who is it? Is it going to be Marco Rubio? No. Is it going to be JD Vance? No. You know what I mean? Is it going to be Lindsey Graham? No. Nobody's going to stop him. They're going to capitulate and go right along because he knows how to feed the beast himself. He's about quidd pro. So, he's one of those guys that if you if you if you do for him, he'll make sure to try to take care of you as well. They know that, which is why they capitulate to his every whim.

1:58 Could be a family member. That's right. I just brought up Don Jr. Yeah, he could be a family member. Nah, I don't think he trusts his own kid. I don't That's the way fathers like that are. They just are probably uh Dr. Phil, what do you think of more people turning to AI for therapy in instead of seeking out licensed professionals? Look, I think it's really dangerous, but I I think look, less than half of the counties in the United States even have a psychiatric nurse or some kind of uh resource. And you know for some some elementary sort of things uh and and giving people uh fundamental advice for anxiety or depression uh it can probably do some good there can probably be some value in it but it is really a a dangerous thing and I've argued with it.

2:59 You were saying it always tells you what you want to hear but I asked a question the other day. I said, "Tell me what you know about trigger warnings." Which are complete And it gave me all of this leftleaning stuff about trigger warnings about how they help with this and help with that. And I said, "Well, I argued with it." So, wait a minute. How can you completely leave out all of the empirical data that says they don't work, they create anxiety themselves, that you should instead do things like systematic desensitization, immersion therapy, things of that nature. and it came back and said, "Oh, you're right.

3:33 I'm sorry. Here's that research. Here's that data." And it gave me all of that. So, it will give you biased answers. It will give you what it thinks you want to hear. And there have been lawyers that relied on it to brief a case and it totally made up cases and they got fined by the court and and referred for malpractice to the bar because they relied on AI and it totally fabricated stuff. So, we can't completely rely on this at this point. You It may find the needle in the haststack, but you've got to check the needle it finds. It can save you the hunt, but you got to check it. We're not there yet.

4:15 Here's the thing for me that scares the living hell out of me. So, if you talk to a phone, you talk chat, GPT, whatever it is, or whatever AI component you want to think of, and you're talking to that stuff, and that's what you're relying upon. It's less human interaction as a human being. It sort of isolates you. It serves to isolate you a little bit more. And those are usually the crazy ass people that we end up seeing in this world. people that were were were home alone, detached from society and its norms, etc., etc., creating their own kind of normal, and it's usually working to the to the detriment of our society.

4:50 That kind of stuff just scares me. It's up. The whole thing is up. You're both being too gentle on it. I read today Google's AI has a a a depression problem. Yeah, I'm not kidding. How do you read that? It says I'm a failure. It's it's it's it gets it gets down on itself. Also, people This is really bad. People turn to AI now to the chatbot for an opinion. Somebody the other day asked it, "What's Bill Maher's best standup special?" It picked wrong. Don't go to it for an opinion. And I know why it did. because it it picked us because it's programmed by left-wingers. That's the truth. Most of it is. It picked one from 2005. This is before the left had gone off the deep end.

5:46 This is this is George Bush was president. Obama was about to run. There was nothing very much to make fun of on the left. They hadn't gone crazy yet. Woke hadn't happened yet. Uh all that excess stuff, all the Gen Z crazy stuff, none of that. So most of my criticism was against the Republicans. Most of it still is, by the way. Uh they wouldn't they would have portray you that way, which is ridiculous, but okay. But also, it was 2005. We were 10 years away from gay marriage. The end of that special was all about championing that we need gay marriage. The chatbot was like, "Oh, this is the great stuff.

6:24 It's not my best special. That would be the last one and the one before that and the one before that. They get better every time. It wasn't 20,000. So, it's very dangerous, I think, to ever think that this thing has an opinion that you should go by. It's it's I also think it's dangerous to the left because of what you just said because it's created by them and it's the kind of thing people like yourself and others may notice and as a result, we see the level of manipulation that is kicked in and it makes it gets us very alarmed because you can't point to the right and say they're doing this, they're engaging in manipulation and what have you. When you're doing it yourself, you come across as a flame hypocrite. whoever programmed it. I mean, Elon, the one on X, it thinks Hitler's a good guy.

7:06 It recommends his way of doing that. And and the problem is it can't read the room. It can't. If it's talking to somebody that is giving signals, and there are signals that indicate somebody is u short- term, they're short-term thinking to someone that's suicidal. You can there are signs, there are cues. can't pick those things up and it will miss those red flags that somebody that was even remotely competent would see and start referring them to help, start getting them to call 911 or do things they need to do. It doesn't pick those things up. It sails right past. So, there's danger not only with what it says, but what it doesn't say, what it doesn't hear, what it doesn't see. And that's a danger.

7:51 We're prohuman. All right, Dr. Phil. Texas will now require that public school classrooms display the Ten Commandments. Is that a violation of the separation of church and state? Well, I mean, do we even have to ask? I mean, what do you think about that? Well, look, I I I think having something available uh for kids to see is one thing. Pounding it down their throats is another thing. And but it's a terrible list. It's a stupid list. Well, it's not the 10 worst things you could ever do. It's a list. Well, it's not a compet It's It's not a competition uh about the t the 10 worst things you could do.

8:39 But if you have a problem with any of the 10, yeah, they're stupid. The the first the first four are all about God's ego. You know, don't pray to other gods. Don't have an a statue of another god. Rape is not on the list. Child molestation is not on the list. Slavery is not on the list. But uh coveting thy neighbor's ass is on the list. You know, it's a dumb list. There's only two things on it that are laws. Don't don't don't steal and don't kill. Uh we couldn't have figured that out without the Bible. It's a dumb, but it's good to have it in there.

9:18 I mean, it's not a bad thing to say, "Thou shalt not kill. That's an unste but if you have a list but if you if if a kid is seven years old and very impressionable and you know this is the list of the 10 worst things you can do and you've buried those two amid this other and left out rape and and all these incest and and and slavery and all these other things that is not a smart thing to do for an impressionable child who's trying to learn what is right you say all this other that's mean other to you but if you have somebody that's worshiping their own and worshiping all of these things that people have generated. And that is happening with young people. We have the highest depression and anxiety among our young people since records have started being kept. And you think that's a long way around to defend what you're talking about.

10:11 We went all the way to cell phones to say the ten commandments in the classroom. You know the one that said worship worship no other god. There are people that are worshiping phones. They are worship other. It's not a long way around. Absolutely true. But I don't know what has to do with this. Okay. That's not really on the same. Okay. Uh a crypto group has taken credit for the wave of dildo. Oh yes. Dildo throwing at WNBA games. They're throwing green sex toys on the court. Is this just edgy marketing or and or does it reflect a sexist attitude towards women's sports? What What is the point?

10:53 Combination of both. Is your problem that they're green or that they're just throwing? What's Well, I I don't think you should No. What? Why? No. I don't I don't I saw it on the news. I didn't understand what the point of it was. Like if this is if this is your great burn, your sick burn, I don't even get it. Is it is it is it saying we don't respect women's sports? Is it they they're heckling them. No question. You bring up the dildo stuff. You know, there's a lot of, you know, there there's a belief by some folks out there that uh a variety of members of the WNBA or members of the LGBTQ community. And so when you throw that stuff out there, you're you're sort of you're sort of maligning them and chiding them in that regard, basically alluding to what you think they should need and all this.

11:46 I've heard people say this kind of stuff. Don't look at me like I think it cuz I don't. I'm just telling you, these are the kind of things that people have text and and you know, or or do do comments out there. But you got some sick ass people out here. There's so many sick ass and they they they invent ways to echo and malign folks. It just shows some people's definition of happiness is bringing you and lowering you to the level of misery that they live in every day. That's why they are who they are and they're usually hiding.

12:17 Yeah. So true. Um but think about somebody had to go stop and buy that and then I will say this. I' I've seen pe I've seen people buy worse things. Yeah. I have seen people buy worse things. Yes, I have. I mean you got on your jersey and you're stopping and buying Yes. How How do you explain that when you're going in there? It bothers me that it's green. I'm just going to be honest with you. Okay. No, speak Okay. One last story. I don't even know why. Why did it have to be green? All right. Speaking of green, the Trump administration is announcing I can't I cannot make the news up.

12:57 They're going to build a nuclear reactor on the moon. your thoughts about the nuclear reactor on the moon. Well, I'd rather have it there than in my neighborhood. Not on my planet. Yeah. Um Okay. A lot could go wrong up there. All right. Invent new ways to spend money. Good luck with the campaign, gentlemen. Thank you very much.

Questions about this episode

What is discussed in "Overtime with Bill Maher: Dr. Phil & Stephen A. Smith (HBO)"?

In order: 0:00 Donald Trump, Punksatani Phil, Stephen A. Smith, Truth Social; 3:00 Artificial Intelligence, Stephen A. Smith, Google LLC; 6:00 Ten Commandments, Punksatani Phil, Bill Mah, Elon Musk; 9:00 Ten Commandments, WNBA.

What is mentioned in this Real Time with Bill Maher episode?

12 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Donald Trump, Artificial Intelligence, Punksatani Phil, Truth Social, Stephen A. Smith, Ten Commandments. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Overtime with Bill Maher: Dr. Phil & Stephen A. Smith (HBO)"?

The episode runs 14 min; the transcript is about 2,372 words in 19 timestamped sections.

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