{"id":28071,"date":"2025-07-22T07:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T07:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/28071\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T07:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T07:16:13","slug":"billy-joel-tells-bill-maher-hes-over-what-woke-people-think-of-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/28071\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Joel tells Bill Maher he\u2019s over what ‘woke’ people think of him"},"content":{"rendered":"

Legendary musician\u00a0Billy Joel<\/a>\u00a0told Bill Maher he doesn\u2019t care if the far left complains about his statements or music anymore.<\/p>\n

During the latest episode of Maher\u2019s\u00a0\u201cClub Random\u201d podcast<\/a>\u00a0released Monday, the two discussed the \u201cwoke\u201d left\u2019s reaction to anything it disagrees with, with Joel admitting he is over being concerned about what that group thinks of him.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this point\u2026 I\u2019m inured to it,\u201d Joel said in reply to Maher asking if he doesn\u2019t care if woke people criticize him any longer.<\/p>\n

Maher brought up woke outrage while talking to Joel about his 1976 song, \u201cAngry Young Man<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the song, Joel sings, \u201cI believe I\u2019ve passed the age, of consciousness and righteous rage, I found that just surviving was a noble fight. I once believed in causes too, I had my pointless point of view, and life went on no matter who was wrong or right.\u201d<\/p>\n

During an episode of Maher\u2019s\u00a0\u201cClub Random\u201d podcast, the two discussed the \u201cwoke\u201d left\u2019s reaction to anything it disagrees with. Getty Images<\/p>\n

With help from Joel, Maher recited the lyrics and commented, \u201cI feel like that is the message of the age, even though some people will hear that and say, \u2018Look at these two a\u2014\u2014-!\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBoomers,\u201d Joel chimed in, mocking an insult often lobbed online at older generations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The host continued, noting how mad leftists<\/a> get when people don\u2019t declare, \u201c\u2019Trump\u2019s the worst.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Maher brought up woke outrage while talking to Joel about his 1976 song, \u201cAngry Young Man.\u201d Youtube \/ Club Random w\/ Bill Maher<\/p>\n

The HBO host\u00a0then brought up Joel\u2019s Vietnam War-era song, \u201cGoodnight Saigon\u201d and its lyrics, \u201cAnd who was wrong? And who was right? It didn\u2019t matter in the thick of the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you still feel that way?\u201d he asked the singer, regarding the lyrics.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYes,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you don\u2019t care what they say about you \u2013\u00a0the woke?\u201d Maher asked.<\/p>\n

The host continued, noting how mad leftists get when people don\u2019t declare, \u201c\u2019Trump\u2019s the worst.\u2019\u201d Youtube \/ Club Random w\/ Bill Maher<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this point, no,\u201d the musician replied, though he noted how he tries to understand the point of view of people who disagree with him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the other hand, I\u2019m always trying to find out the other point of view. What\u2019s, you know, not my point of view \u2013\u00a0somebody else\u2019s point of view. Okay, I\u2019d like to understand why they think that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so difficult in this day and age,\u201d Maher replied.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this point, no,\u201d the musician replied, though he noted how he tries to understand the point of view of people who disagree with him.\u00a0 Youtube \/ Club Random w\/ Bill Maher<\/p>\n

Maher continued, \u201cI mean it is what I am always trying to do on my show. It is, look, this is one safe space for everybody and I will take the heat from either \u2013 both sides. I mean I do feel like the left, who, ironically I\u2019m more actually aligned with, is more snippy about it, and has a worse attitude about it, and makes me viscerally not like them more sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, the two discussed how social media makes political outrage<\/a> worse.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople say things all the time on [social media] they would never say, if they had to say it to your face,\u201d Maher said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just always surprises me how people, they express this hatred,\u201d Joel responded. \u201cIt\u2019s like, you hate a musician because he wrote something?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legendary musician\u00a0Billy Joel\u00a0told Bill Maher he doesn\u2019t care if the far left complains about his statements or music…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[10161,18153,236,88,10815,1253,2294,111,92,24100],"class_list":{"0":"post-28071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bill-maher","9":"tag-billy-joel","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-media","13":"tag-musicians","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-tv","17":"tag-woke-culture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}