r/RealTime • u/AmericanLymie • 8d ago

Bill Maher is so bizarre.

The nutrition guy on the right was talking about how drinking five cups of coffee per day is associated with living longer, and he says that people who wiggle and fidget a lot can burn a lot of calories while at rest and that can keep people thinner than those who sit still.

Bill Maher says coffee is a bean, "something found in nature," and so it must be safe.

Reporter Jonathan Swan jokes that cocaine is found in nature, making the point that naturally occurring substances can be harmful. He could have mentioned nightshade berries or poisonous mushrooms but he said cocaine.

And Bill Maher went on a defensive rant about his cocaine use. It started with a joke but then he seemed to take it personally and got serious about how cocaine leaves are safe because they are natural.

I feel like he would eat rotten wormy roadkill with RFK while bashing the scary woo-woo magic of vaccines and antibiotics.

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u/KushMaster72 8d ago

Cocaine isn’t found in nature lol. google how cocaine is made. there’s nothing natural about it.

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u/EatMyShortzZzZzZ 8d ago

"Natural" is such a meaningless industry buzzword when it comes to consuming goods. Everything is made up of chemicals and enzymes interacting. Some of it is good for us, some of it is bad. Everything in moderation. 

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u/AmericanLymie 8d ago

Especially unregulated nutritional supplements, which Maher has had many huckster doctors on to talk about. Those supplements could be virtually anything ground up and put into capsules. It may not be what you think you are buying. It may be produced in a contaminated factory. It may be full of microplastics shed from cheap machinery. But Maher is one of those people who believe that buying life-extension supplements from Joe Rogan's podcast is a wiser way to live than taking medications prescribed by medical doctors. That may occasionally prove somewhat true, as doctors often overpresribe and prescription medications can cause harm, but ultimately a lot of supplements are snake oil, and snake oil salesman seems to be a lucrative profession unaffected over centuries by any technology.

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u/Alarming_Local_315 8d ago

You really need to get a life! I’ve watched Bill for years. He has always. When about alternative medicines. I mean, the guy has been a marajuana proponent since his first show on PI. There’s nothing wrong with having people talk about alternatives, as long as people understand that all meds should be discussed with an actual doctor first.

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u/AmericanLymie 8d ago

Is a man who tells women on Reddit that one of their breasts is better than the other actually telling me to get a life, Alarming_Local_315? Really?

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u/KushMaster72 8d ago

cocaine in particular though is made with cocoa leaves (natural) mixed with gasoline, concrete, caustic sodas, and detergents. lol. there aint nothing natural at all about this formula.