Tonight on The Independents: “If I Ruled the World.” Then Switch to HBO to Watch Matt Welch on Real Time with Bill Maher

Your
Friday theme episode of The
Independents (Fox Business Network, 9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT,
repeats three hours later in each time zone) is on the intriguing
theme of “If I Ruled the World.” Meaning, not necessarily
me (though we do get into some of my King
Rudolf II/George
Washington fantasies), but rather the creative imaginations of
some of our more, ah, ambitious friends: Geraldo Rivera, Anthony
Weiner, Tucker
Carlson, Gavin
McInnes, Monica
Crowley, and Bobby Bones.

The discussion ranges from outlawing train-farts to containing
Russia to minimizing state-delivered death. To get a sense of the
eclectic nature of it all, here’s a teaser piece the show did
Wednesday with popular hip-hop DJ Charlamagne tha God:

Then after The Independents, switch over to HBO’s

Real Time with Bill Maher, where I will join panelists
Arianna Huffington
and Baratunde
Thurston in talking about such topics as the
Benghazi select committee, the
return of Monica Lewinsky, the latest global warming reports,
the mass
Nigerian girl-kidnapping, Islam,
and more. Also appearing on the program will be conservative
controversialist Dinesh
D’Souza and progressive activist Sister Simone Campbell.