Bill Maher makes a ‘private’ confession about his travel habits in ‘real time’

It’s Oscar nominations week and a jovial Bill Maher has taken some Hollywood steps to kick off the second real time of the spring. But later in the show, a grumpy Maher revealed a dirty little secret about travel, which he and other celebrities do all the time

“I can’t wait to see who beats who,” Maher said of this week’s Academy Awards, noting that the nominations leader Everything everywhere at once.” a title which He compared it to “what you see when you shine UV light on a hotel duvet.”

Avatar: The Way of Water had a sore spot with Maher, who noted that he opposes the “Oscars so blue” nomination.

With that out of the way, Maher turned to the Ukraine and this week made the decision to send them tanks. “Biden said they are the deadliest weapon in our arsenal – if you don’t count the gas stove.”

For his one-on-one segment, Maher brought together Frances Haugen, the social media activist and author of the upcoming book T.The power of one: How I found the strength to speak the truth and why I blew the whistle on Facebook.

Maher lamented the rise of the TikTok generation and how “young people can’t watch a movie thanks to shorter attention spans.” “It looks like we’re doing an experiment on young people’s brains.”

Haugen is best known as a Facebook whistleblower, and Maher asked if that service was “the least of your worries” given his older, skewed audience.

“What we use in the US is the cleanest version,” she countered. “Facebook is the most used product in the most vulnerable places.”

Maher also launched a jihad on the phone apps, which Haugen agreed “we could be more desensitized,” saying the wonderful lives depicted on Instagram encourage social disorder and anxiety. The sleep deprivation caused by taking your phone to bed with you is also “a big cause of depression,” she said.

In the panel discussion, Maher Bari Weiss, the founder and publisher of The free pressand former Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan.

They engaged in a wide-ranging discussion, from police crackdowns in Memphis, to America’s nutritional deficiencies causing more disease, to the failure of the Democratic strategy that is pushing the party to the radical fringes of its traditional working-class base.

One of the more interesting segments was a short talk about the rise of artificial intelligence, which threatens to take over employees.

Ryan noted that his biggest applause during his campaign was We Need to Bring Back the Shopping Class. Construction workers, nurses and police seem immune to AI takeover, he said. “We will find a solution.”

The panel also concluded that the Democratic Party needs to figure out what’s wrong with its approach. “Most people, especially post-Covid, are looking at a party of school closures, puberty closures” and other issues. “They want to go the other way.”

Maher said schools are to blame for kids “not learning about the American Revolution and a thousand other things.”

Ryan agreed. “We need ambition and direction for the country to be united,” he said. “And it’s not about all that bullshit.”

The New Rules segment features a confession from Bill Maher: He flies private. And most of the other celebrities who preach the climate do as well.

“I know what didn’t work,” Maher said when it came to improving the environment. “People demand to be good.” He pointed out several errors, including recycling. “When you tell most people ‘about climate issues,’ their response is, ‘What’s in it for me?’

“I still believe that climate change is an emergency. But I don’t think we’re going to win with canvas shopping bags or the phasing out of gas stoves.”

Maher compared private flights to heroin use. “Once you do it, you’ll never stop,” he said. “There are two kinds of people: those who fly privately and those who would if they could.”

The host pointed out that his lack of children was a positive in the environmental wars, then said he once owned a Prius and a Tesla. But no one followed suit and now 80% of new vehicles are SUVs and trucks. “This is what people want,” he said.

“It’s fun to laugh at powerful people,” Maher concluded. “That way I can afford to fly privately. But we have to get serious,” suggesting nuclear power and more money for research.

But in the end, how people are wired decides whether they stick with it. So it’s not really Taylor Swift’s fault that she has a private jet. After all, “Do you want to be stuck in the Southwest with a pissed off Taylor Swift?”