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Seth MacFarlane Picks Apart Bill Maher Over COVID, Vaccines (VIDEO)

On the latest episode of Club Random, Bill Maher gets to sit back and listen to Seth MacFarlane pick apart his COVID/vaccines positions.

Spending nearly two hours with Bill Maher on Maher's Club Random podcast, it was pretty clear that Seth MacFarlane (Ted, The Orville) was there to touch base and shoot the shit with Maher on a wide range of topics. Of course, we find Maher to be a sad shadow of his former self, an aging comedian who spends way too much time yelling at metaphorical clouds and comes across like a self-proclaimed prophet who offers the same answer to every single one of society's woes: "Those damn kids!" But if MacFarlane wants to spend some podcast time with Maher, who are we to begrudge him? But with that said, we would be remiss if we didn't cover how Maher's attempts to spew more of his COVID/anti-vaxx nonsense were smoothly shot down by MacFarlane.

Beginning at around the 36:45 mark, Maher reveals that he had a medical researcher whom he pays to – we're assuming, based on the title that Maher gave them – research medical stuff. And that led to Maher's first brain-bleeder – and a major point that MacFarlane makes clear that he and Maher part ways on – that a good researcher on medical issues doesn't need to be a doctor – and, Maher added, probably knows more than your doctor. It would be like saying someone who can look up online & compile everything you need to know about performing heart surgery is just the same or possibly better than someone who actually went to medical school and performed a heart surgery. After Maher shared that he believed doctors are wrong a lot of times, offering that natural immunity wasn't given a chance to work – which MacFarlane countered by noting that numbers of folks contracted COVID on more than one occasion, punching holes in the natural immunity argument.

From there, Maher continued with a stream of personal anecdotes that he attempted to pass off as either fact or representative of a large part of the population. But where it got really short-sighted on Maher's part – and what set up MacFarlane for the perfect response – was when he raged about there being side effects from the vaccine. To be clear, vaccines that are regularly mandated and have been for some time –  and that have helped save millions of lives –  all come with side effects. And yet, for some reason, Maher and his ilk seem to have their pitchforks & fiery torches focused solely on the COVID vaccine. MacFarlane asks Maher why this is so different from the others – and it's the awkwardness of how quiet Maher gets that makes the clip more than worth it.

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