Conservative talk radio host Chris Stigall discussed Bill Maher’s recent podcast interview with NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Stigall made the comments on Thursday on Philadelphia’s AM 990 The Answer.
Stigall said what piqued his interest in the interview on Maher’s “Club Random” podcast was that the discussion centered on COVID and the subsequent lockdowns and vaccine mandates that came along with it.
“This is just notable to me when pop culture and athletes, celebrities, singers, start complaining about this, it leads me to believe perhaps people that don’t ordinarily pay attention to stuff like you and me, maybe understand that there’s currently a problem with the people in power,” he said.
Maher told Rodgers that the most frightening thing about the virus wasn’t the disease itself. He said what concerned him was how fast people surrendered their freedoms.
Rodgers pointed to the government’s promise of two weeks to flatten the curve and the conspiracy theories that followed that promise.
“It turned into vaccine mandates, vaccine passports, slowed the spread and then lockdowns and that was my problem,” said Rodgers.
Stigall added that he thinks the conversation between Rodgers and Maher was an important one from the standpoint of public awareness.
“Bill Maher not wrong, Aaron Rodgers not wrong,” noted Stigall. “Do these people connect the dots with who’s responsible? That’s the question.”