The nationally distributed NPR program Fresh Air with Terry Gross helped Bill Maher and his director Larry Charles charm the country over their movie Religulous, complete with their white-hot loathing of religion and religious people on September 30. Said Charles:

“Well, first of all, we made a master list of people we wanted to talk to. We started with the pope. We started with God, actually. We even talked to God, but God was so boring we actually cut him out of the movie.”