Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - 10/13/23

[Rhiannon12866]

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Monologue: A Difficult Week

Bill reacts to the terrorist attacks on Israel in his Real Time monologue.




Israel's 9/11

James Kirchick and Matt Duss join Bill Maher to discuss the Israel-Hamas war and its reverberations in American media and academia.




New Rule: The Lone Danger

Bill warns that technology and safetyism are leading to a public health crisis of loneliness, isolation, and lack of connection.




Overtime: James Kirchick & Matt Duss

Bill and his guests continue their conversation about Israel's intelligence failure, the GOP's leadership vacuum and more.



Here's a "bootleg" version of the show which includes the entire interview with Tristan Harris, tech ethicist, co-founder and executive director of the non-profit Center for Humane Technology (7:11); entire panel discussion with James Kirchick, columnist for Tablet Magazine, writer-at-large for Air Mail, and author of Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington and Matt Duss, executive vice-president at the Center for International Policy, former foreign policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace (19:42); and includes the opening part of New Rules (48:35). It won't last long, as usual:

[Warpy]

1. Nah, Bill, original Covid was far worse and did more damage than avoiding it

until the vax came out and people got that first shot.

However, he's right that the extraordinary means to avoid it should have ended sooner than they did. TFG was just too big a dunce to roll the vax out properly, the way they did during polio and smallpox scares, outreach teams canvassing cities and towns, advertising when and where people could get the shots.

Those plans should have been in place before Biden was sworn in.

As for the antisocial social media, that shit had been going on for a long time, restaurants full of people sitting at tables and not talking to each other, just scrolling their phones. Or those videos of people so obsessed with their phones that they fell into fountains and walked into street signs. This has been building for a very long time. Lockdown might have hurried it up a little, but the process was already well under way.

[BigmanPigman]

2. He and that idiot NY Times reporter Bari Weiss

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/01/24/don_lemon_bari_weiss_irresponsible_a_lot_of_people_are_tired_of_dealing_with_sick_people_who_wont_get_vaccinated.html

announced to the world that "Covid is over" back in Jan. 2022 and that was the final straw for me. The only reason he said this, in my opinion, was because he couldn't do his stand-up anymore and was greedy and self absorbed.

[Auggie]

3. Awesome show

From Harris to Kirchick and Duss. Thanks for posting, Rhiannon12866!

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Thanks! And I agree, the guests and the discussion last night were really interesting.

Not as much comedy as usual and I noticed that Bill didn't do his "funny bit" during the panel, but the subject they were discussing was much too serious this week. And I was also pleased that they made Overtime available right after the show like they used to. Last week it completely slipped my mind since it's been so long since it's been on.

[Auggie]

6. Yes

I was wondering if the "funny bit" was omitted this week or planned but intentionally skipped to allow the panel discussion to continue uninterrupted. Rarely do we see a single topic dominate the entire show. Glad it happened. I was exposed to a lot I didn't know.

Is the CNN/Overtime association over? Hope so. It was clunky as could be and destroyed the segment's flow and spontaneity.

[Fresh Water Falling]

5. 31:46-32:05 (Bootleg Version)

Is Kirchick on crack???