Overtime: Andrew Sullivan, Katie Herzog, Christine Emba | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

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[@robaudio]

I enjoyed this show more than I have for a long time. Not only great guests but the audience did not applaud every time someone said something.

[@landonfolken03]

I found the audience to be really irritating. Turn their volume down for one. And Bill was making comments because they wouldnt respond to intelligent comments but were overexcited for the "lower brow" jokes.

[@mofishin2648]

I'm always surprised at how many people watch the show but complain about Bills "boomer takes". I don't agree with him on a lot of things but I'm still a fan. Expecting someone to agree with you on every topic is weird to me. This is one of the last shows on TV that values freedom of speech, enjoy it while it lasts.

[@mylesmwalkerjr]

Same here bill is one of the few Atheists I like and can listen to for hours on end intellectually and I'm a Christian lol

[@dabidibup]

He’s a boomer. Watch TYT if you want to be radicalized by younger people

[@S.J.L]

@@dabidibup Or better yet watch Milton Friedman and sin no more.

[@bambam7618]

Does he always skip over the hardest positions to defend?

[@shanghaidiscovery2664]

I think these days it's because Bill's opinions are veering right versus where he was before... but you can also see he is conflicted in his own ideas

[@yinliu5634]

These guests are great. There are normal people out there.

[@MichaelWagoner]

Yeah, they're all great but I really like Katie Herzog. If you haven't checked out her podcast "Blocked and Reported" you should. It's a good one. :)

[@sunkings5972]

Yea great people creating a false equivalenxy between liberal "extremism" like prefering a gay person play a gay character or trying a UBI for only gay people and republican extremism that wants to hang Mike Pence and create independent fascist states. The "normal" Americans that are just as pissed at the left wanting to "cancel" people for making rude comments and the right that wants to cancel American democracy, or what little of it we have left. Ill never understand why people think Bill Maher is just a common sense guy. He is catering to the "both sides" crowd that will likely stay home in november giving fascist enough powwr in certain states to challenge federal authprity to protect citizen's rights. We already see Texas GOP making it a platform position to literally succeed from the Union. Sure Maher will talk about the crazy, but he will spend equal time bitching about dwmocrats for being too "woke" as if that is an acceptable reason for people to stay home or vote red. Maher and everyone else catering to the "both sides" narrative are the reason the supreme court did what they did. Its why the GOP knows there will no consequences for their highly unpopular agenda and actions. Because no matter how many righrs they take away no matter how many elections they steal no matter how authoritarian res states get, there will always be "moderates" giving people arbitrary and often irrelevant examples of how the other side fighting against all that is just as bad.

[@hsp8601]

They are actually having conversation 👍🇺🇲

[@danstheman33]

@@MichaelWagoner It's a great podcast, one of my favorite!

[@christopherallen9476]

Sorry, but normal people aren't obsessing over trans people like these two

[@geekdiggy]

this is one of the better more entertaining panels i've seen on this show

[@RocStarr913]

It’s because it’s from a specific community and you don’t often get to hear credible gay voices disagree with the queer community at large.

[@ddyoder]

Great panel- would love to see more Andrew Sullivan and crew back again in future episodes. Also, the “Representative” bit for Dem/Rep was spot on and what clearly is happening and how people are feeling

[@twstf8905]

Katie Herzog is sort of a local "hero" around here, in Seattle. (For some.) It's kinda weird seeing her on Bill Maher, after reading her in "the Stranger" for so long. 👍

[@mckernan603]

I liked her calm and witty presence

[@JohnDoe-qp3bp]

You sure about its personal pronoun preference?

[@henram36]

And she's reasonable. How far have we slipped into stupidity as progressives when a columnist in The Stranger sounds completely reasonable to average Americans. This is actually a GOOD thing. Dems need to wake TF up.

[@SpeedOfThought1111]

Katie "fuck the kids" Herzog

[@danstheman33]

@@JohnDoe-qp3bp You obviously know nothing about Katie Herzog. She is most definitely a she. Sure she is a tomboy and looks kind of androgenous, and she is gay, but she doesn't do any of that pronoun nonsense, isn't trans or nonbinary or anything, she's actually quite critical of the excesses of gender ideology and identity politics. You might want to check out her podcast, 'Blocked and Reported', it's very good!

[@johnfdm123]

Katie Herzog seems like someone who would be all kinds of fun to hang out with.

[@joannek6267]

Love Katie. And Andrew is always a great panelist.

[@victoriaman117]

I think Christina is correct. Despair and economic pressure is stopping birth rates, not environmental ideals

[@h8stupidppl]

These two are not mutually exclusive. The state of the environment in addition to many other factor could be the catalyst for this said despair.

[@strategicsage7694]

@@h8stupidppl People in general are not that worried about the environment. They should be, but that's another issue. 2% of Americans consistently list the environment as the most important issue. 2%. That's around 15 issues they have a higher priority on.

[@anthonysteen56]

The most likely reason for low fertility rates is women in the workforce

[@peterhausmann8337]

@@anthonysteen56 The main reason was mentioned, it's the possibility of birth control together with the legality of an abortion. Second was already abandoned and conservatives are working on destroying all progress that has been made in the last 200 years.

[@vforwombat9915]

"Despair and economic pressure is stopping birth rates, not environmental ideals" nope. they've been looking at this for decades. as countries get wealthier, they have fewer kids. as families get wealthier, they have fewer kids. Japan, Europe, and the US, just about the wealthiest regions int he world, have significant fertility problems now. as this trickles down to third world countries, their birth rates should be dropping. they have also suggested that hormones and other things we have been dumping into the environment has reduced sperm counts/ fertility. this might be true. idk if/how much that applies to countries outside the US. but generally speaking, the poorer you are, the more kids you have, because the kids work and contribute to family income. again, this has been studied. for decades. US fertility has been dropping since... the 70s or 80s.

[@sandyunderpants4376]

It's amazing how easy it was to ban the safest "smoke", but we've known for 60 years that cigarettes kill you and have not 1 redeemable benefit, but they remain legal and heavily taxed forever.

[@g-pa-Rok-n-Tok]

I guess I'm outta the loop. I'd never heard of Katie Herzog, but she is good!

[@ebefl]

Listen to her podcast

[@hel6714]

shes on the 'Blocked and Reported' podcast, very good!

[@g-pa-Rok-n-Tok]

@@ebefl thanks

[@g-pa-Rok-n-Tok]

@@hel6714 thank you

[@alex-qd6of]

Her podcast and Chapo Trap House, are the only ones I pay for.

[@davidfoxall3344]

Love Katie Herzog, brilliant and thoughtful journalist plus genuinely funny.

[@brianlawson1758]

Great guests this week. Enjoy the time off!

[@gueguenoun]

Love Katie Herzog, she's witty and her interventions are, as always, highly enjoyable

[@yeahnah671]

I agree, more Katie Herzog please. Also read her article about the disappearing lesbians, it’s really good

[@richardtompson318]

@@yeahnah671 They are not disappearing. They are transing themselves.And if you are trans, you are behind trans ideology.

[@yeahnah671]

@@richardtompson318 that’s what the article I mentioned argues, yes.

[@jasong7373]

Too many commas, typical of a fan of hers

[@anewberr]

The patience displayed by Christine Emba is admirable.

[@marcyfan]

why come on the show and be offended? she was the guest i enjoyed most.

[@tallrobshortpants7190]

Surprised she didn’t say, “Thank you for the question.”

[@anewberr]

@@marcyfan why come on for an interview so he can tell you his opinion rather than interview her about her opinion. I’m a bill fan but sometimes he is overbearing.

[@sanandaallsgood673]

I'm not sure it was patience as much as not knowing what to say about the topic, since most of it was about vaping. Perhaps she was smart to not say anything about a subject she didn't know much about??

[@tallrobshortpants7190]

@@sanandaallsgood673 well there’s a novel idea. 👍

[@Scorpion122178]

the menthol cigarette stuff was so hilarious and awkward. I feel so bad for that lady. She's clearly upper class and has no clue what the hell Bill was talking about.

[@sandyunderpants4376]

Yet he kept looking at her like "c'mon you smoke black cigarettes say something".

[@TylerShacklefordDurden]

Lol acting like she don't know the power of newports

[@wildwoodandonyx]

‘Ports are a hood thang and she wouldn’t understand. She’s a writer.

[@cleanslate2004]

Andrew has always been a voice of reason to me & he loves a good laugh. This panel was great tonight. There was no over the top WOKE stuff, just some older folk & younger folk enjoying their differences. These brilliant young ladies & hopefully many others like them will be the ones who will help our competing cultures find a balance.

[@ConnorMarc]

What does "woke" mean?

[@kayomholt-montague7661]

Here here here!!

[@wessexmom]

Not one of these guys would qualify as WOKE!

[@ChristopherBonis]

That black woman has a really soothing voice.

[@keithkarvelis82]

She's very elegant and very attractive. Very classy lady.

[@detroitdiezel7856]

That black woman's name is Christine Emba and she's absolutely phenomenal!

[@47shadows76]

It's kinda hot ngl #allsimpingnopimping

[@marklewen9384]

I don't HEAR color....

[@keithkarvelis82]

@@47shadows76 I agree. Soft spokenness is pretty sexy.

[@Atombender]

Katie Herzog is definitely one of the better guests on the show.

[@democracymeansdcstatehood3606]

She's a transphobic political activist, right

[@alex-qd6of]

@@democracymeansdcstatehood3606 she's not transphobic, by any means, except to the most vitriolic activists (who are doing trans people no favors).

[@nesne2167]

@@democracymeansdcstatehood3606 Oh Jesus. Just because people don't see the issue the way you do doesn't mean they are transphobic. Name calling nannies like you are pushing people to the right. Have fun living in a Republican run country after this fall.

[@democracymeansdcstatehood3606]

@@alex-qd6of Are you trans?

[@IDontBuyIt50]

@@democracymeansdcstatehood3606 i just got to ask.....this is Maher show right?.....hasn't he done enough explaining about how disagreeing and phobic aren't the same thing? Yet here you are, deliberately misunderstanding that. I don't know her outside of the show, so maybe she's more extreme elswhere, but for this appearance nothing sounded at all phobic to me.

[@nathanielmilner6646]

"Italians don't live here" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 as an Italian this is beautiful

[@MikeB12800]

Great panel!!!! Talking serious issues but not taking it too seriously!! Friendly, funny discussions!!!

[@triciaroy]

Christine Emba: “Or it could be despair” Me: That

[@sarysa]

I don't normally actually clap in my home, but I did when you mentioned the Tom Hanks bit. When actors are afraid to...act...you know things have gone too far.

[@democracymeansdcstatehood3606]

So you agree far right white people harassing a black actress in star wars is going too far

[@djJasonGarland]

we are waiting for Bill to get back to where he was.

[@IDontBuyIt50]

@@djJasonGarland which is what, not totally fed up with the idiots on the left, only the right? I love this Bill, because I am evolving along the same exact track. Not more conservative, just finally over the opposite end too. Its exactly what we need from people who have a platform.....evolution.

[@ender003]

It's so dumb. If straight actors can't play gay characters anymore, then gay actors shouldn't be allowed to play straight characters. Let's so how well that goes over.

[@Games_and_Music]

@@ender003 Exactly, it's virtue signaling from people with privileges and it's only there to help the "victims", which is not what equality is.

[@spanishflea634]

Great panel, wish the segment whould have been much longer.

[@71588Budman]

Do you have HBO? The episode was really good!

[@bigdaddyjoe2819]

Great show Bill! Enjoy the vacation! See ya Jul 29!!!

[@jonasabry9099]

I'm impressed he got Katie Herzog on.

[@yeahsure8323]

I’m not

[@keeganfisher1900]

Ohhhh Bill. Keep doing what you do... you're one of the only persons on the left that's keeping it real and not tripping over themselves in an attempt to "out woke" their neighbors.

[@waltermennekens1503]

He's not on the left

[@loftsatsympaticodotc]

Bill is left AND right whenever necessary to TRY (too often in futility) to keep this country sensible !

[@kham6006]

He’s a real liberal -that’s what we used to be like -he stuck around I had to leave -I round never support AOC -joe Biden has said so many disgusting racist comments -started doing my own research-I was stunned

[@alexsummers9140]

@@waltermennekens1503 wrong

[@ConnorMarc]

What does "woke" mean?

[@Userick10]

I LOVE KATIE HERZOG!!! More please.

[@iAmTheSquidThing]

Go and listen to the podcast Blocked & Reported!

[@skreeeboy]

She's fantastic, and so is her podcast.

[@jennifermathis3983]

I already miss you Bill!!! Great show and guests!!! Glad I have the podcasts to hold me over until you return!!!

[@democracymeansdcstatehood3606]

Do you mostly watch stuff hosted by rich cisgender white male right wingers

[@Muzakman37]

@@democracymeansdcstatehood3606 Would it matter? Are there rules on this sort of thing?

[@squarebird]

@@democracymeansdcstatehood3606 Are you trolling or joking?

[@vincarro5078]

This was actually very nice to listen to because not one person was acting like their point of view was the only way. They just provided different perspectives and didn't force it on anyone.

[@PsoriasisChannel]

Thank you 🙏 Bill Real Time! A super entertaining show. Enjoy your time off!

[@rawworking]

Christina was great on this episode. Stunningly lovely woman too.

[@keithkarvelis82]

Yeah. She's a beauty.

[@ChrisAlbertH47]

Yes, she was. She was composed and helped balance the sometimes emotional Bill. But she also wasn't given as much chance to talk about her findings during the opening, cause Bill was ranting about what he thought of modern hook-ups. sheesh..

[@alex-qd6of]

@@ChrisAlbertH47 bill's gonna bill.

[@47shadows76]

@@keithkarvelis82 She's kinda hot in a traditionalist way.

[@crittoneida958]

@@47shadows76yep. I would hit that

[@thegodfatherofthesec1748]

Overtime! Have a great Vacation. ✌🏻

[@kelseyelle6627]

What a treat to see the world’s first and foremost podcast host on Bill Maher. Brava Katie 👏🏻

[@abefroman4715]

She’s not the first podcaster that would be Adam Curry.

[@myself2noone]

@@abefroman4715 No, Blocked And Reported is the only podcast.

[@anneb889]

I’ve never heard of her before. I thought Joe Rogan was the most popular podcaster?

[@Liz31394]

And Jesse Singal’s boss, such a #girlboss 💁🏻‍♀️

[@digitalgods5568]

@@anneb889 He is by a long shot.

[@roykliffen9674]

So sad to know films like "Good Will Hunting" or "A Beautiful Mind" can't be made today because there are no actors around with an IQ in the 160's.......... It's so asinine to require actors to be like the characters they are required to play.

[@toriless]

...and who could play a Cylon??

[@roykliffen9674]

@@toriless Exactly

[@IDontBuyIt50]

i know it aint the point, but 150-160 isn't where those characters were, both would be well over 200. Not a real important distinction for your point I know, and the point is absolutely right. Next thing you know there will be women playing drag queens, to pull a show example back in.

[@mrr1491]

Also, isn't requiring only gay people or only high IQ people (to use your example) just a way to pigeonhole certain actors? Like saying, well, we can't cast this gay actor in this role because this role is a straight man. I swear, this stuff is getting ridiculous.

[@roykliffen9674]

@@IDontBuyIt50 My bad ..... Thanks. I should have known better than rely on a decades old - pre-internet -memory that Einstein was rated around 160; Googling confirms that was mentioned at the time, but wildly unreliable as no-one can tell what it was based on. Seeing how the highest official rating ever was about 400, I was wildly off base.

[@edschell9411]

Katie is great

[@lizannewhitlow1085]

Christine is so charming!

[@maddog1011]

I immediately wanted to not like Christine Emba after hearing she wrote a book about sex and she works the Washington post. Unfortunately, the great institution that once was the Washington post is no more. However,After listening to her speak for a few minutes she gives me a glimmer of hope for the Washington post. Probably the greatest compliment One could give her and the Washington post at this point.

[@curbozerboomer1773]

I think Katie is pretty hot, despite her very "butch" look.

[@KyleJBales]

best episode of the season!

[@SString215]

I love Katie Herzog so much. 💜

[@jamesholland8057]

Katie is great.

[@yeahsure8323]

Uh no

[@jamesholland8057]

@@yeahsure8323 uh yes,

[@anthony9thompson]

By the same logic Tom Hanks shouldn’t play a soldier

[@r.p.mcmurphy6623]

This week's episode (including Overtime) was the best of the season so far! A+++

[@JustOneOpinion]

He ended the season strong indeed. .. fucking be OUR LAWYER!!!

[@ricodelavega4511]

katie was too in awe of andrew to pipe up, she barely got in.

[@angels_in_velvet]

I totally agree

[@kayalcorn9569]

Finally

[@rawworking]

Wholeheartedly agree.

[@jim6070]

Good show this week Bill.

[@rociobany290]

Love you Bill !! Thank you for doing what you do and your show is awesome * Have a great vacation ... can't wait to see you when you come back !! Take care ☮

[@EvertfromNederland]

I prefer the "Let adults decide for themselfes as autonomous individuals" over the "mostly black people smoke menthol cigarettes so making menthol cigarettes illegal is rascist" argument. IMO the real issue is about making cigarettes extremely addictive with all the unnecessary addatives. You don't have to add all those chemicals to smoke a tobacco plant i think.

[@mayerkur1]

Adults don’t decide when they are addicted.

[@EvertfromNederland]

@@mayerkur1 absolutely! because addiction sneaks up on you like a ninja and can easily be denied or kept secret. And that is why the issue that should be adressed here is the fact they put addictive components in cigarettes rather than symbolically banning one particualar kind of cigarette.

[@MrJamberee]

The menthol ban is racist, with white liberals helping the poor black people who can’t think and decide for themselves. How have white liberals done in helping blacks? Look at any big city today, the poverty, lousy schools, dropout rate, crime, murders in the black community. The answer is crystal clear.

[@Muzakman37]

@@EvertfromNederland It's the most addictive, or put it another way, it's the hardest to quit.

[@squarebird]

@@EvertfromNederland You mean they put tobacco in tobacco?

[@ropro9817]

Overtime should be at least an hour

[@Wowowowowowowowowowowowow]

How about 10 minutes minimum for a start…

[@AdamBechtol]

Yeah people are so fond of it and it often goes over so well. More relaxed, interesting audience questions, dunno why they don't expand it, but Bill often seems eager to get out of the studio and go home ,heh.

[@ropro9817]

@@AdamBechtol Haha, yeah, true. I guess we have Club Random as an alternative.

[@Enlightement369]

I Love Free Speech! Thanks Bill for years of keeping us aware and on our toes!! Love you!! ❤️

[@davidbruns1471]

Inhaling anything other than air in your lungs is not good!

[@elkabong6429]

I hope he invites Ms. Emba back as a regular guest. She’s interesting!

[@crittoneida958]

I can think of a few more words describing Ms Emba.....she has me rethinking sex right now....and I havent read her book....

[@waynefoolxify]

I totally agree! She seemed a bit reticent and I kept thinking "I want you to chime in!" (in this clip and in her interview with Bill)

[@shoshanazuckerberg7279]

She was barely able to have a conversation with Bill, Bill gave solid information/facts from a male point of view and she ignored them and went on to what was in her book. She appeared to be more concerned about that wig looking convincing....lol

[@condor7810]

@@shoshanazuckerberg7279 She was wearing a wig? How do you know?

[@shoshanazuckerberg7279]

As Bill stated men are after sex.....women are after romance.....that's two different things, it would serve women well to remember that.

[@H0tchips]

"Tom Hanks can be wrong". The level of profound enlightenment is simply off the scale.

[@ISpitHotFiyaa]

The thing with banning menthols is the government already banned all the other flavors in 2009. That's not to say that was a good idea either but this would at least make the law consistent.

[@nerdanalog1707]

And yet, cigars are still allowed to have flavours. And no nic cap on those either. Not really consistent. Also, if cigarettes are so bad, vaping is 95% less harmful, why not ban the worst product first?

[@mayerkur1]

@@nerdanalog1707 many vaping products have received approval including vuse. Juul has received a stay on the fda’s ban for now. But vaping itself has not been banned.

[@rustyyb8450]

they'll be coming for flavors in foods linked to obesity. Potato chips, cheetos, fruit-loops, Swedish-fish, rootbeer, coke, pepsi, orange-crush, etc will have to go flavorless ;p president has been set. Only time is needed before the rule finds its next application.

[@josephpeeler5434]

Consistent tyranny. The government's job isn't too arrogantly and paternally take away all sharp objects in the world.

[@josephpeeler5434]

@@nerdanalog1707 Why not allow people the freedom to choose? I hate the way tyrannical leftists think.

[@weissrw1]

I am 69. When I was young we argued that gov't should not be involved in health care because, sooner or later, the gov't would say the cost of health care required them to control our health decisions. We're here!!!

[@Gr8flGrrl]

💯

[@alex-qd6of]

So can we finally get universal healthcare, then? Like the rest of the first world...

[@nerdanalog1707]

Well not really, if this can reassure you. States make lots of money off of cigarettes, with taxes and also through a thing called the Master Settlement Agreement. In the latter, the more a state sells cigarettes, the more cigarette companies have to give them money. So banning nicotine vaping is not about health, it is about profits and money. Reducing nicotine in cigarettes to get smokers to smoke more thus buy more, is certainly not about health, but money & profits. Rest assured, the US government still doesn't give a sh%*t about anyone's health. They do care about making more money no matter the cost.

[@AdamBechtol]

Interesting, thanks for that.

[@kylecasey9254]

This segment was a roller-coaster

[@intomnia3313]

Brief stop at club random?

[@patrickgile320]

As a high school teacher, the joke of it all is the kids don't use Juul's anymore. They go for the disposable vapes because they have more flavors and hit harder. If this is really about kids, go after the disposable vapes.

[@HH-gv8mx]

💯 agree! It’s the disposable vapes. No one cares about Juul. Oh and while you’re at it look into Delta 8 and Kratom… whatever that crap is . Super addicting and that’s what all these teens and mostly dudes love to come in and buy at our store.

[@neilyaremchuk6798]

Or go after stores that are selling them to minors. Let adults make their own decisions.

[@HH-gv8mx]

@@neilyaremchuk6798 my boyfriend works at a very popular store here in south Florida which advertises the “lowest prices” for vapes, etc. you can find everything in the store including glass bongs little pipes that I assume you smoke crack out of that are not mean for weed. It’s not a liquor store but they sell liquor labeled as wine. He tells me the police even come in there all the time, especially when he has to work the overnight shift the police go in there and buy vapes and energy drinks. They’ll never target that store. The millionaire Moroccans the owners store and many other chains in the area do not care who they Target as long as they continue to make money. My boyfriend is wise enough to know he will be the one who will get in trouble if he sells to someone under age so he does his best to ID everybody but his coworkers do not. They would rather take her a five or $20 tip for selling to someone underage.

[@TheJimburke]

Go after the retail outlets that sell them to kids. After a few $500 dollar fines the store will stop selling to teenagers.

[@TheJimburke]

@@HH-gv8mx I know at least 3 people that have successfully weaned of opioids with the help of kratom so I think it should remain available. There are enough people in the prisons we do not need more reasons to lock people up. I think the evidence is clear the decades long war on drugs in this country did not do anything except energize prison businesses and ruin millions of lives by tearing apart families for minor non violent drug charges. Kratom is a leaf from a tree that grows in parts of Asia. It has been used to relieve pain for thousands of years in many Asian countries. If there is a national ban on Kratom you can bet that the influence on Govt. officials and DEA came from the Drug and alcohol Lobby.

[@sekenamcmurren2217]

Great episode Bill!😂

[@QueenetBowie]

Would love for this to be longer, I watch tbr full episodes on HBO max plus Overtime but Overtime should allow for a little longer discussion, stay on these topics given but let each person talk longer. Feels like people get cut off regularly because they’re trying to fit into the time slot which sort of defeats the purpose of Overtime

[@stormevans6897]

I'd still be smoking if it wasn't for Juul, been off cigarettes for 4 years now and feel way better than I did when I was smoking. Thankfully they have blocked the ban and an appeals court is reviewing the case.

[@mayerkur1]

Many vapes have received authorization. I’m glad they help as a cessation tool. Juul was wildly irresponsible marketing addiction to kids. I for one am glad that company could be banned.

[@squarebird]

@@mayerkur1 You prefer kids continue to become obese .. better to keep their hands and mouths occupied with vape sticks. Nicotine concerns? Read the ingredient labels of every other option from the vending machine. (Nicotine is equivalent to caffeine btw).

[@duckman896]

The people he had on this episode were very level headed. I'm sure I don't agree with them on much, but found their arguments to be sound and reasonable. I say this from a right perspective, and a big fan of Bill.

[@ConnorMarc]

How long have you been a fan?

[@duckman896]

@@ConnorMarc 2007-08 I watched religulous when I was 10, started watching Maher with my dad.

[@ConnorMarc]

@@duckman896 I've been watching him from the late 80s early 90s. I stopped about 5 years ago, he's changed and not for the better.

[@austin2147]

LMAO Bills reaction to reading the cards.

[@demri123]

The fertility issue is actually a big problem in many countries. Korea, Japan, Taiwan, etc......they are set to have almost no work force / tax base in the coming decades. The choice will be 1) mass immigration or 2) full automation--robot takeover

[@vforwombat9915]

it's wealth. wealthier countries have fewer children. probably a good thing if the robotic revolution winds up eliminating most jobs. as for immigration, it's how the US and Europe are maintaining stable populations right now.

[@rebbeshort]

I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.

[@tallard666]

It's NOT a problem, it's a good thing. Limitless growth is a moronic concept.

[@mkm1206]

@@vforwombat9915 or a new slave labor for the elite .

[@LG123ABC]

You people don't seem to realize that we need a certain level of population growth to sustain the economy. If population growth crashes it can take the entire economy with it -- permanently. There won't be enough young people paying into Social Security to cover the benefits for retired people.

[@karmayt8956]

I had to give up weed because of a permanent sore throat. After 50 yrs it caught up to me.

[@lizardjoel]

You could always use edibles

[@ellewatts82]

Get that checked

[@em0_tion]

A friend of mine had dry throat for a long time and it turned out it was connected to high blood sugar (almost diabetic). Go get it checked, if you're fine you've got nothing to lost, if you're not - at least you know.

[@GrinchDec23]

I know an 87 year old who keeps on, loves the hell out of it, course he keeps healthy in most other areas

[@themanwhoknewtoomuch6667]

I am getting off weed. On and off... hard to quit this diabolically addi...oh my bad "psychologically dependent" habit. Smoked for 20 odd years. Fucked up my neurochemistry and made long term changes to the brain.

[@angeladial8325]

Six minutes in and we know the audience didn't understand the assignment and the rest of the show it was the awkward nemesis, lol

[@pal4204]

I think that what he's talking about is what we call a "Power Hitter". It's like giving yourself a "Shortgun"! I love it!

[@peymang]

I would love to see Andrew Sullivan on bill's podcast

[@loreleismith5955]

Bill is hilarious and I love the gut eruption laughter! He brings that lovely wit and irony to the surface in these amazing tumultuous gloomy times. All I can say is I miss his show when he's out on the road having comedian fun and connecting with folks all over the country; thereby, "threading" us together with some basic common sense, insight and those startling one liners. " Hey Bill, Can ya stream the stand up shows too? Can't afford to follow ya around like a rock n roll groupie, but I did consider it."

[@wessexmom]

Absolutely agree!

[@axepagode33626]

Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington were great in Philadelphia.

[@cblack4413]

I really hate it now when he interrupts people before they finish their point.Katie was about to finish her first point,and he cant help himself.

[@andiecastle]

More Katie Herzog on the show, please.

[@jameslaporta8689]

Really like bill. I think he walks the aisle well. However I disagree with his take on lowered nicotine in cigarettes. I just read Malcom Gladwell’s book ‘Tipping Point’. Great read. He quotes a few studies while talking about addiction and many of them suggest that lower nicotine in cigarettes would massively reduce the number of NEW smokers every year. I agree that it is worse for current smokers but you have to make a decision sometimes and I think that was the right one

[@mayerkur1]

There is also much research suggesting reducing nicotine to approximately 5% of current levels does not result in compensatory smoking

[@PahaPoniesSpanishMustangs]

So you agree with federal oversight of your body?

[@ThisIS_Insane]

The body wants what the body wants, and when you hook it on some substance as bad a nicotine, it will overcompensate to maintain that level of response. Many people I know used the nicotine vapes to quit, though I did not. I use cannabis now as a cancer protocol to keep my cancer GONE. Smoking cannabis does NOT do damage to the lungs and there is a California study that clearly showed it, especially in light of the fact they were looking to prove cannabis CAUSES damage, which they never did find. Please do not lump cannabis vapes in with the trash they sell with nicotine. Yes, I hate that stuff, it makes me gag when walking thru the cloud of smoke in front of restaurants and such. Vape OR cigarette. I wish Bill would learn the science about the plant he loves. He says so much that seems off about it. You go, Bill, I still love your show!

[@stephenphillips6245]

I used to smoke cigars, in university, with no addiction...left them when I wished too. More pure...less additives and not as harmful as cigarettes.

[@sandermalschaert2336]

KATIE HERZOG! Can't see enough of this woman.

[@PabloIzurieta]

"Why call it the black cigarette?" That is exactly right. When the US stops calling everything the black this, the brown that, the white that, the yellow this, then that will be the day that racial tensions begin to dwindle.

[@josephpeeler5434]

It is the black cigarette. So, there is that.

[@kennethdower7425]

Wrong. Only a nitwit would believe that. Keep dreaming.

[@skinnylong2023]

Race and culture are a reality, just don't be a racist douchebag. Ignoring cultural differences just leads to racism in different ways, towards the people who don't wish to become a cultureless mass.

[@JaDav40]

Leonard Nimoy could never be cast as Spock today because he isn't actually an alien...

[@nancysamp8517]

Are you sure?

[@GlenMacDonald]

But William Shatner could definitely play an alien, because he *was* an alien: he was from Canada. But I hate aliens, they're always stealing good-paying union jobs where you get to be a starship captain and bone green women... 😂

[@sugarcookiecube]

@ja dav- the pendulum of authentic representation is extreme for a reason: to promote the real inclusion of people who were being played by whites in blackface, Asian (oriental) makeup and stereotypes of Native Americans to name a few. Your sarcastic comment as I presume a white person is lost and tone deaf. 😏

[@mizzury54]

Good one

[@maddog1011]

I immediately wanted to not like Christine Emba after hearing she wrote a book about sex and she works the Washington post. Unfortunately, the great institution that once was the Washington post is no more. However,After listening to her speak for a few minutes she gives me a glimmer of hope for the Washington post. Probably the greatest compliment One could give her and the Washington post at this point.

[@Ztuber564]

Journalist and politicians do the same thing, in fact it’s part of what they do, they convince people one on one (like on talk shows and podcasts) but behind the scenes most of them are pieces of shit.

[@cynthiaa3359]

What’s wrong with writing a book about sex?

[@alex-qd6of]

@@cynthiaa3359 because sex bad, apparently? This person's probably a religioso.

[@shoshanazuckerberg7279]

She was barely able to have a convo with Bill, she seemed pre-occupied and just kept saying stuff in her book....."chick the man is talking to you"

[@zafarsobhan9191]

Oscar Wilde: A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

[@marjoryunger2205]

Bill, you’re very awesome 😎, and my thinking really reflects mine!

[@ChangeTheGame219]

“My thinking really reflects mine”… I’d really hope so 😂😂😂

[@ladymeropi]

@@ChangeTheGame219 tee-hee

[@BoycottNCSoft]

The government and states aren't going after the tobacco companies to ban cigarettes because of money. The tobacco companies are still paying settlements to the federal and state governments and the money goes into programs like Medicaid. Vaping companies don't. The government is protecting the tobacco companies' market share and trying to enlarge it again. They want people smoking and dying early, especially the poor.

[@priceisright1580]

If your an adult and you want to smoke go right ahead .. exercise your freedom .. don't let any more democrats take any more of your freedoms or control you any more .. and buy gas powered cars and trucks too ..

[@priceisright1580]

Smoking I have the right to do with my body as I please ..

[@alex-qd6of]

@@priceisright1580 why the f*** would you buy gas powered cars? Do you have a fetish for dirty air?

[@priceisright1580]

@@alex-qd6of because we are free to buy a gas powered car if we want to .. jist because some politicians and some of thier corporate special interest groups have planned to make a fortune off of this industry they are controlling and going to try to force on everyone doesn't mean it will succeed because it is a big hoax and the EV industry can't exist without fossil fuel products 😉..

[@nerdanalog1707]

@@priceisright1580 But vaping you can't.

[@brianwings6908]

When I saw Herzog I thought oh oh (judging her by her looks) but she turned out to be well informed and smart.

[@emerraldx]

and why we don’t judge people by their looks alone 😉 but I have to admit if her hair was dyed bright blue and I didn’t already know her solid reputation as a logical thinking persons liberal I might have been in same boat so kudos to you for listening first

[@AtticAurel]

this whole episode and this overtime were just great. it was outstanding this time. :-) 🙃

[@unlimitedbitsgaming]

This was such a good episode of the show.

[@slyjokerg]

It is SO nice to see two gay people on the correct side of the "trans" insanity. Good for Andrew and Katie. Bravo! Watch the whole episode to see that part of this show. They were great.

[@SwedeSpeeder]

I smoked for 30 years, it was pretty impossible for me to quit. But vaping saved the day. 4 years and counting now. The hard part of quitting smoking for me, and I think most people, isn't quitting the drug. It's quitting the habit. Having something in your hand all the time, taking that drag, getting that throat hit, exhaling the smoke/vapor. That's what's hard to get over for most people.

[@Caparisplato]

Hit the nail on the head.

[@waynej2608]

Indeed. I quit after years of smoking, and there's nothing easy about it. The thing is, is it can be done. I miss it, at times, but refuse to go back.

[@marjoryunger2205]

Loving 🥰 your wit!’

[@susiepoadster4642]

Christine Emba! Love you sweet girl, so smart, good answers! I would watch you everyday

[@miket4560]

One man...... One joint 👍

[@MemphisTiger]

R.I.P. Bill Maher! Because you said "Tom Hanks could be wrong..." it is clear to all of us that during your summer hiatus, somewhere lightning will strike you down. lol

[@Mr.Fridaynight]

Lol soo scuffed I loved it...

[@BluntforceJ]

"Fuck the kids!" - Katie Herzog I like her. Who cares what kids think?

[@Mach9330]

Kids don't know nothing anyway.

[@ryancalhoun2910]

@@Mach9330 nor do you

[@terenceheesch8351]

Ryan, just because you're smarter than the other 5 year olds in your kindergarten class doesn't mean the other 5 year old AREN'T stupid

[@ryancalhoun2910]

@@terenceheesch8351 Typical liberal who has to insult someone instead of argue the point. Hope you're happy being blocked.

[@morbidmanmusic]

Kids don't know "nothing".. like your grammar skills...?

[@lesliepavelko8600]

I LOVE BILL MAHER. He’s been on the top of politics for thirty plus years, never fails to discuss the average person’s issues, and as relatable as ever. ONE OF THE BEST.

[@jeremyperson8778]

Are you f ing serious? He is factually incoherent and slow by 3 to 5 years. Anyone who is actually cognitive of the facts today understands exactly what im saying. 👌

[@lesliepavelko8600]

@@jeremyperson8778 so why are you here? Look to his history, watch his podcasts ,or are you simply trying to express some odd prowess relevant to my comment....smh

[@squarebird]

@@jeremyperson8778 incoherent comment of the day.

[@jeremyperson8778]

@@squarebird says the 24th Chromosomal failed abortion. It's not to late according to California. Abortion up to death right. Hahahaha

[@breathspinecore]

Btw, Andrew is totally right- the extraction process to make vapes denuded so much from the flower. It’s usually just THC and some food grade terpenes added back in. Flower has the whole suite of cannabinoids, terpenes, and everything else. The highs are totally different, and most real smokers don’t like vapes for that reason. They may use them for convenience, but a joint always wins over a vape.

[@breathspinecore]

@King Mob Fair point-- the word "vape" has multiple meanings, but I'm assuming they meant vaping oil. But I disagree on the flavor aspect-- I feel like it all taste like burnt popcorn. That's why I never liked those volcanoes

[@wildwoodandonyx]

Vaping seems more chemical and flower is easier to control how much is taken in from a “maintenance” perspective. Some of us NEED to get a little high for anxiety or pain, and vaping can quickly take you beyond what you were looking for. Then you are too high and you get the tweaker effect.

[@RobertBerry53]

that moment when you lean toward the camera, almost conspiratorially, and wink the wrong eye lol. I still love Bill, tho

[@w0lf_larsen]

thank u for honesty. miss it

[@batgurrl]

Worldwide - educated people are having less children. It’s too expensive plus the world is a depressing place.. My experience as a white NYC Boomer and Marlboro smoker starting in the 70s, the majority of black people smoked Menthol cigs and about 80% of white people smoked non menthol and about 20% of white people smoked menthols

[@jonathonmcglew4992]

Cars, food, heat, housing for a family of 4 is too expensive.

[@NewMessage]

1:53 Great Rudy Giuliani impression.

[@ajcbng8289]

Smoked for more years than I care to think about. Suffered with the constant hack that accompanies that bad behavior. Within one week of switching to vaping, my cough was completely gone. Harm reduction is a thing. Minors shouldn't be vaping, just like they shouldn't be smoking and drinking alcohol. Adults can and should be able to make their own decisions. This is all just a shiny object in the hope of keeping us distracted from the avalanche of serious problems that require our immediate attention. SQUIRREL!

[@BottleConcreteBlond]

Including women being able to decide whether to carry a pregnancy to term.

[@ajcbng8289]

@@BottleConcreteBlond EXACTLY. And it's just one of a long line of dastardly injuries being inflicted by the few on the many.

[@squarebird]

I still don't get why folks assume that teenagers vaping is a "problem". The deadliest thing kids today are doing is becoming obese. Swap out that Kit Kat in the hand with a vape stick.

[@gigglemaniarunninwild2207]

That black woman has an amazing smile and manner

[@victorpradha9946]

Christine Emba!

[@Demarcointuit]

I think that Bill had her on the mind....that is why his game was off.

[@victorpradha9946]

@@Demarcointuit I wouldn't blame him. She was quite poised, sophisticated and refined in her delivery. And she appeared to be rather well-informed.

[@kokohead333]

Great show! Bill teasing Trump in the main show, was the best!

[@jeffs6090]

I was hoping for the graphics dept to let that picture of drumph's ass slowly get bigger until it took over the entire screen to drive home Bill's point of its atrociousness and to piss him off even more.

[@waynej2608]

Lmao. Yes, that was great! I wonder if Trump was watching and if so, he probably launched a cheeseburger at the TV screen.

[@2cgames]

Great

[@hawsrulebegin7768]

I like her showing bill up with his black cigarette banner waving.