Real Time with Bill Maher guests - Friday, April 19, 2024

[Rhiannon12866]

Real Time with Bill Maher continues its 22nd season Friday, April 19 (10:00-11:00 p.m. live ET/7:00-8:00 p.m. PT), with a replay at 11:32 p.m., exclusively on HBO.

This week features a one-on-one interview with Jillian Michaels, a fitness and nutrition expert, as well as the host of the podcast Keeping It Real: Conversations with Jillian Michaels.

This week's in-studio panel discussion will include Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of The Call to Serve: The Life of an American President, George Herbert Walker Bush; and Jane Ferguson, award-winning foreign correspondent for PBS NewsHour, contributor to The New Yorker, also known for her book No Ordinary Assignment.

[Sympthsical]

1. Jillian Michaels

That's about to be a long conversation about how Ozempic is terrible and people are lazy while Maher agrees.

Which, I dunno. After my partner and I both gained sedentary Covid weight, we just went back to the gym together. He walks twice a day as well. Our nutrition is pretty good nowadays. (He said, after ordering Combos off Amazon yesterday). However, some people seem to need Ozempic. I literally have no experience with it and don't personally anyone know anyone on it, so no dog in this fight.

But Michaels is doing battle with everyone about it online, so one can guess what that interview is going to be like.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Thanks! I thought that this was a pretty weird guest to have on a show that discusses news and politics

And with all that's going on in the world - and this country - right now, it doesn't sound like a particularly important story.

[Johnny2X2X]

4. Yeah

And don’t be surprised if there’s a good dose of anti vax mixed in.

Ozempic is a miracle drug for millions of people. While it might not be for everyone, it most certainly is the only way to a healthy weight for a lot of people. Coworker literally doesn’t have diabetes anymore because of Ozempic. Good friend has hope in his life now because of it.

If exercise and diet were so easy to do and get to a healthy weight, then there would be no obesity. It’s just impossible for millions of people to lose weight and they aren’t just lazy.

Ozempic generics need to be fast tracked as it’s so darned expensive.

[617Blue]

5. Yes I'm guessing she will tell us about her vax research.

[nolabear]

6. Swell. Someone else trying to make me feel worthless.

I can’t figure out how anyone believes they have the right to dictate how someone tries to tackle a problem with their health. My fucking body, my fucking right to seek health in any way that doesn’t harm anyone else, bitch.

I’m so over Maher and his shit. And by “his shit” I mean Jillian Michaels.

[Doc Sportello]

3. Another one to miss

The promo for Meacham's book about Bush reads like a hagiography for a real piece of shit who "served" his country as an elite who used its resources to promote Wall Street interests at the expense of third world countries. For a true account of the Bush family's long, sordid history of serving the needs of them and their fellow elites, read Russ Baker's Family of Secrets.

The fitness expert will probably serve as another sycophant for Maher's ignorance on the matter of health, mostly about his flawed linking of COVID to obesity (repeating ad naseum that high percentage of victims were considered obese while ignoring the fact that a similar number of the general population are also in that category).

[question everything]

7. I don't know about Jilian Micahels but Meacham is always worth listening

and Ferguson is a qualified reporter.

About New Rules... who knows? Hit or Miss

Thanks for keeping on top of this.

[Rhiannon12866]

8. Thanks! I have no idea why he'd have a "fitness" expert on, but the post above had an idea - strange.

And Jon Meacham is always a favorite, I love hearing from the presidential historians - and the reporter should fit in well, too.