New Rule: America Has a Drinking Problem | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
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Bill stages an intervention for the Americans using liquor to take the edge off of their pandemic-exacerbated anxiety.
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Forty days sober after 22 years of drinking. Best move I've made in a long time.
One day at a time….bet you’re sleeping a lot better too!
👍
coming up on twelve years. best decision ever.
That what's up
Bravo!!
I work at a liquor store. Believe me, a lot more people have been drinking over the last several years.
Why do you think this is?
Put the prices up then.
@@reinforcedpenisstem the point of a liquor store is not to discourage people from drinking.
@@reinforcedpenisstem competition would put them out of business, there's about 2 liquor stores per mile; individual chains can't affect the price of liquor.
@@Nathan-gd7xq The point of a store is to make the owner money.
"This girl asked me, doesn't drinking give you a headache? Yeah eventually! But the beginning and middle part are amazing!"
-Mitch Hedberg
I am glad that I gave up drinking and for once in my life am still sticking to new year resolution,it’s 7 months now and still sober..It’s been hard but really worth it.
To be fair, Chuck E. Cheese has served beer since the 80s, pretty sure it was the only way to get adults to actually tolerate a shitload of hyper kids and creepy robots.
😂
naawwww... it was so you could tolerate their crappy pizza. And a bunch of ugly people all under one roof.
Not the ones I went to.
@@HHH-ye1ro me neither.
Not here in Ohio in the 90s they did not.
“Trauma is the real gateway drug.”
Candy, sugar and fast food is where addiction starts
F@####ck, both of you just dropping truth bombs
Trauma of what?
@@sheilag2231 Any kind of trauma. Trauma leads to an inability to cope, the consumption of alcohol and drugs make you feel like you can cope, or at least makes you care less that you can't.
@@mike47734 My first addiction was breathing, I never really got over it. :P Snark aside, sugar and salt are tastes our mouths get used to quickly, even though we don't need a lot of either. So you can train people to like any amount of sugar or salt. Luckily this goes both ways, so you can train yourself (or your kids, or anyone) to like things less sweet and less salty. Though if you usually have a low salt intake, and you get overwhelmed with the desire for fries, then that's your body telling you you have a salt deficiency. So go out and eat those fries for medical reasons :), anything salty will work, but fries are tasty as well as salty.
I gave up drinking a year ago, and since then I've really become aware of the drinking culture in the UK. I know we're famous for drinking but I never realised how ingrained it was in our society.
As a non Brit who watches a ton of British television, what I see is an alcoholic nation. But then, I see it in the US as well. I don't drink, haven't for decades, and honestly I don't get the appeal.
Europe, in general, has always consumed way more alcohol than the states on a per capita basis (the average American only consumes 7-8 gallons a year while Europeans consume 10-15 gallons depending on the country). In fact, the US and Canada are usually on the lower end in the spectrum in both alcohol and cheese consumption (something Europeans are famous for).
@@luke_cohen1 but the US has a very large Christian/Conservative population, Including Baptists, Mormons, and Amish who are opposed to alcohol. Those who partake certainly drink as much or more than the average Brit.
@@jj4791 Europe drinks more beer and wine, Americans drink more hard liquor (the hard seltzer and premade cocktails seems to be chinaging that though). They still drink more overall due to the low proof of beer and wine but Americans are more likely to binge drink. It's a lot like comparing Britain and Ireland drinking cultures to be honest.
Same i moved from Dublin to Toronto and changed my drinking to a Canadian.. I return home to Ireland to mayhem.. We dont see it as a drug and thats the issue.. its the last legal drug ffs.. and Ireland thinks its pop does no harm.. But you wont get a funnier night then in an Irish pub.
“People say you should never drink alone, yet I’ve found those to be the some of the most enjoyable drinks one can have.” -Christopher Hitchens
In the right circumstance, absolutely. And everyone knows the difference between having some drinks and some reflection or relaxation with yourself and having a real problem. But yeah, that expression has never made sense to me either.
And he died of oesophageal cancer, for which alcohol consumption is one of the main risk factors, so maybe not the best example to emulate.
@@q.d.r.l.5480 If you need booze or weed to do that, you have a problem.
Yeah I’ve always found it interesting that people say getting high alone is awesome but drinking alone is sad. Don’t they both kinda do the same thing, and why does one have to be sad over the other?
@@jadedjimmy they're both very bad signs. No one benefits from booze or weed. If you're dying and want to numb your excruciating pain, enjoy your weed on the way out. If you're alive and well, it ain't spiritual or healing, and booze is not just acceptable, it's expected. That's insane.
Me watching this in Scotland: "Yeah you don't know what a drinking problem is."
Empty bottle?
I was once at an Irish Wedding….the Bar actually ran out of alcohol 🤭. Never seen that many happy wedding guests! 🤣
@@agf1700 you think the wedding was a happy place, wait till you attend a funeral
@@phileas007 Oh I’ve been to a few of those too!
@@agf1700 Daddy used to tell me: "Avoid hangovers; stay drunk."
That’s really kind of terrifying how true this is
Africa for Africans, Asia for Asians, White countries for Everybody?!
ONLY White countries are BULLIED that they must be BLENDED out of existence to solve the “race problem”, and this quest is never ending.
Africa will still be African
Asia will still be Asian
For White people and ONLY White people it is oblivion.
It’s increasingly obvious:
Anti-racist is a CODEWORD for anti-White.
The only thing plastic at Whole Foods are the shoppers.
Sounds like Europe to me...
@@DontGoToHell someone didn’t take their medicine this morning.
@@DontGoToHell wrong video
When Ted Kaczynski talked about how instead of the system fixing itself in a way to alleviated the stresses it causes, it instead dispenses substances to essentially medicate said stress away, booze is a prime example of one of those substances
His writings are highly underrated
And he randomly bombed universities. Such a soothing soul.
Anxious? Depressed? Bored? Grab a good book. Books have always been my Drink/drug/ therapist. Never needed anything but a good book. .
Nature, music, books, creativity. Better than booze or drugs.
The alcohol menu is bigger than the food menu at many restaurants.
As it SHOULD be!🍺
Good point! I thought I was seeing “double” on the drink menu. But now you just clarified this for me….
Wine menu, beer menu, mixed drink menu. Ooooh you wanted the food menu? It’s the last 4 lines of the mixed drinks menu.
What's food?
Makes sense. The markup on liquor is stupid high.
This is why I love Bill. He lectures us about our problems while also being relatable and funny.
Exactly
While he is addicted to drugs.
Funny?
@@donofon101 when you get old you just can't handle things the way one would when being younger.
Bill Mayer is cringe and ignorant.
Thank you. I hit my rock-bottom during this pandemic and today I'm over 10 months off the sauce. I never thought I'd be able to kick it. I'm a really bad alcoholic. I still enjoy cannabis but that never destroyed my life like booze did.
This has been a collective trauma we're all still enduring. Make sure you check in with your loved ones as much as you can. I didn't expect the pandemic to hurt me mentally as badly as it did, but there's hope for a better tomorrow.
Whatever you're struggling with, do not give up hope. You're stronger than you realize.
Same with me. Best of luck to you
That's cool. Genuinely.
But....I gotta say, every time I think about cutting back on my drinking and I hear someone use the term "off the sauce" it makes me want to drink.... Everything about that term bothers me. THE SAUCE? Don't...say...that. It's so so weird. Just a tip. ;)
@@avedic it’s weird that you think that’s so weird. It’s weird to tell people not to use perfectly normal expressions because you think they’re weird. And that’s not what’s making you want to drink. It’s the alcoholism that’s to blame for that. Just a tip.
7 yrs here. I didnt think I would stop either.
Peace to you. All I really need is good music and good food.
I've never understood what is wrong with someone drinking alcohol alone or during daylight.
It’s an end of the workday ritual for me to crack open a cold one when I get home. It’s not a social activity, it’s my “me time”, and I don’t understand the stigma of it. It’s nice to take the edge off the day and relax. I gave up alcohol for a bit and substituted non-alcoholic beer, and I found it still had much the same relaxing effect. Just the ritual of drinking a cold beer after work in and of itself is very calming and soothing. No shame in it.
Yup; this just sounds like self-righteous lecturing from Bill Maher; I love Bill Maher, but this segment just annoyed me. 😒 Btw, I want “grog time” to make a comeback.
Because it's a problem. Alcohol withdrawal is one of the ones that can kill you (hence liquor stores never being closed down during pandemic), killing your organs, but it's everywhere and celebrated. It's one of the hardest addictions to get away from. It's everywhere and too normalized.
Ask yourself why most would scoff at smoking pot all day, or doing other drugs, or even lecture about the harm of cigarettes? It's not only hypocrisy, but glosses over the real harm of drinking culture. And I'm someone very liberal about substance use in general (I think if adults want it, they should get it), yet I still see why drinking is an epidemic. It leads to violence, drunk driving, organ failure, etc.
We'd think anyone doing coke all day was a problem, but we're fine with drinking all day? I rather have people on the road after taking a pain pill, to or doing a line, than a person coming from their house with a buzz. Alcohol impairs people yet it's treated as harmless.
Doesn't mean get rid of it, but this idea that drinking being normalized is good for people needs to go. Time for a reality check.
I never imagined when I was a teen in the 70s, hearing the grown-ups lecturing us about the evils of pot while they were sipping their martinis, that I would live to see the day when a proud stoner adult like Maher would be lecturing us all about the evils of drinking.
C A T … right on man!
Brother or sister.... Beautiful just beautiful!!👍😊
I had a professor (a wonderful one) who was a vegetarian & never took medicine or used alcohol. I am confounded as to why Americans are drawn to drugs, street and/or prescription ones. Tobacco kills people. If an individual sold a deadly product as their “business” would that be ok?? A corporation does it and it’s a smart business move. Take my advice, stay away from drugs. Stay healthy and safe & live a happy, long life! 🥰
I wish I could enjoy pot. What's available now is just way too high in THC for me. My heart races and my hands turn to blocks of ice, I can't talk, my tongue sticks to the back of my throat, and I get really paranoid and anxious. Not an enjoyable feeling.
@@allisonroberts1379 ugh, IDK about long. I'm getting awfully discouraged
My boyfriend died of alcoholism three months ago. It's extremely easy to get caught up in it and it's a terrible way to go. He was only 52. Please be careful, people. ✌💗🖖
So sorry to hear that. Some people are born with predisposition to alcoholism. My mom died when I was young from an accidentally fatal mixture of prescription drugs and alcohol. Fortunately I didn't inherit that predisposition but I'm pretty sure my older brother did.
It is simply something some people will struggle with their entire lives. My friends dad killed his mom while both were drunk. He is convinced he has predisposition to alcoholism and because of that, he has never had alcohol in his entire life.
Unfortunately, it runs in some families and can be passed on to your kids.
@@redbaron6805 Cheers to both of you for surviving all of that. Even after all the people in my life that perished from their mistakes, I still know prohibition causes an unfathomable amount more damage, this is compunded by a lack of treatment options/subsidies and a culture of shame. You can't get clean or "pay yoyr debt to society," you're ostracized for life ... sometimes until a curtain fall too soon.
Your heart-breaking stories are sobering. My deepest sympathies 😢
@@redbaron6805 There's no predisposition. Only choices.
Drinking is not always alcoholism. Alcoholics are different from most drinkers. Come from family of them. It is way different than just drinking it is drinking to excess
I work at a liquor store and I can tell you, since covid, we make more money than before. When it first hit, I served people who bought 6+ or more half gallons of liquor and be gone for a few weeks and come back for another case of half gallons. Now most of these people are in my store very single day buying fifths or liters, every single day! My staff and myself noticed before and after covid hit, business is booming since covid. Christmas eve we did 42 thousand dollars, 2019 we did about 23 or 24 thousand.
3 years sober and very thankful everyday for it.
Congratulations! That's great to hear.
"Alcohol, the cause and solution to all of life's problems" - Homer Simpson
I'm really, really sorry about this:
"TO Alcohol, the cause OF, and solution to, all of life's problems."
I just had to. I'm so very very sorry. The Pedantic Force runs strong in my family.
German version: Alcohol is not the answer, but it helps you to forget the question.
*- Albert Einstein
@@jeffbaer5851 Reads better that way too , the actual quote
“Drinking has ruined my life. I am 31 years old” Hans Moleman
I have been saying these exact things for years. As a recovered alcoholic, it’s amazing how clear life can be without the drink, on so many levels.
@David Wurat Don't drink ink David! That goes in your printer not in your mouth
Best high is clean, sober and well-rested
Agreed.
That's why we drink. No one wants to clearly see how F'd we are.
But congratulations on your recovery!
@David Wurat You shut up. We overthrew the drink ink King 250 years ago
Can’t stomach it, never could. So happy.
I stopped drinking last month, it was a difficult but right decision
Awesome! Congratulations!! I had 77 months yesterday. BEST THING I"VE EVER DONE, next to stopping smoking.
Way to go ! It gets better!!
I have a tip for you. Get a healthy hobby, one where you are too busy to drink. Joining a gym and becoming focused on your health and making “gains” will help you focus away from the alcohol. Depending on where you live, you could do anything, like rock climbing, ice rock climbing, surfing, diving, or any other hobby that requires your complete sobriety. You got this!
I did find myself drinking during the week all the time. I stopped it. It was making me feel so sick and unhealthy. I still have a couple of glasses of wine during the weekend but even that I am trying to slow down. I have even lost weight! Good for you!!!💯
To quote Homer Simpson " to alcohol the cause of and the solution to all our problems" ✌️
^ this
🍺 "I'LL DRINK TO THAT!" CHEERS! 🍻✌
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@@carldeithorn3450 🍺🥃🍸🍹
It’s not really the solution, that’s just what dummies tell themselves
You know you've hit rock bottom when you're getting plastered at Whole Foods
Really? I’d say rock bottom is getting shit faced at the Penguinarium
And if you thought the food at Whole Foods was expensive
@New Life New Rules Peter O'Toole started drinking one night in Paris and woke up the next morning in Corsica... 1200 miles away, with no idea how that happened
@@johndanielson3777 Or a Walmart bathroom.
@@brockalbert5111 No, no. Don't confuse the people. They were doing meth at Walmart.
As an alcoholic, I appreciate so many venues accommodating my disability. Thanks so much America!
"Who gets shitfaced at a zoo?"
The one I worked at? about 40% of the staff.
Worked at a zoo with no animals but one little dog.It was a schit- zou
Africa for Africans, Asia for Asians, White countries for Everybody?!
ONLY White countries are BULLIED that they must be BLENDED out of existence to solve the “race problem”, and this quest is never ending.
Africa will still be African
Asia will still be Asian
For White people and ONLY White people it is oblivion.
It’s increasingly obvious:
Anti-racist is a CODEWORD for anti-White.
Bill missed a golden opportunity there to reference some primates throwing their feces.
“Who gets sh*tfaced at a zoo? I mean, other than the bratty kid who teased the wrong monkey?”
Fixed it for ya ✌️
@@DontGoToHell what the hell does this racist screed have to do with the post?
@@DontGoToHell sounds like you need a drink pal
That whole "passing out" and "being hungover" gets in the way of my drinking.
Same here. Was at a friend's house, woke up hungover, saw about 6 or 7 beers on the poker table and funneled them with an oil thing used for vehicles. No hangover except for having the runs.
How did we go from an evening if drinking when young, carefree & bounce back the next morning like nothing. To old & hung over on a Friday evening, means an entire weekend to recoup? I didn't sign up for this! Did any of you? 😂😂😂
If you never want a hang over do what I used to do, have a drink first thing in the morning!!
Honestly, he's right about alcohol, but this also applies to drugs
*other drugs. Alcohol is a drug too. It just culturally doesn't get that label because it's legal and commonplace.
Yep, even weed.
@@catherineshaw1122 I can’t stand how weed has become so normalized. It still screws with your mental health and it’s definitely addictive. The people who tell you that “it’s not addictive” can’t stop themselves and are always soulless potheads who look 20 years older than they really are.
@@GIJew amen to that, it has been marketed very well and has everyone convinced that it's spiritual, lol.
This video is timeless. I am a 23 year old college student and I have never consumed alcohol. I am a responsible adult and I am sober
I hope you continue to be a sober adult. Your parents must be proud of you.
Everytime I come here, anticipating a burn, he schools me, tells me how I am wrong about my life, and his wit helps me digest it. Health, habits, prejudices against either left or right, inspiration from books and great personalities, balance between entertainment and real knowledge. The list goes on. And I nod to myself and try to reshape. I don't know whether anyone cares or not, but I walked out of depression partly because of Bill Maher. Keep it up good sir.
Good for you! Keep up the good work!!
Congrats, mate!
So you 'walked out' of depression? That's great, no harmful drugs, but rather an individual (Maher) on drugs, did the trick. Better his brain, than yours.
@@remmymafia3889 shit on me all you want. It's the truth. He invites some genuinely amazing personalities and their books help a lot of people. Bill Maher's own perspective is great enough. I don't know why you are so triggered by this. but alright. May be you don't want to believe me. May be you don't like Bill. In either case, it's none of my business. Just trying to share my opinion for those who can relate to it and learn from it. You can do whatever pleases you
@@abhishekkhandkar Triggered? Just exercising my wit- kinda like Maher has done for a living all his life. A bit harsh I'll admit, just seeing how many woke I can 'trigger', and demand safe spaces.
They are even putting booze in desserts. The proof is in the pudding.
Make it a 100 proof and I'll get my spoon :D
Dad jokes are strictly prohibited.
And we thought it was just Cosby...
oh god
Such a Plum job of the joke. But i guess when life gives you lemons, make the lemonade martini.
I completely agree. So true.
I'm about 10 months alcohol free. One of the best decisions I've ever made. Drinking won't make your problems better. It just creates new problems.
He's not wrong. We have seen a big spike in people joining our program since COVID started. We're grateful more awareness is being raised about this epidemic.
At least they have acknowledged their problem...you can't fix what you won't acknowledge. 😕
"Programs"? You're grateful you've found a way to employ yourself in the marketplace. Nothing more.
One day at a time
@@jackwarner2444 Believe it or not, some people actually care about helping others 😒
@@rachels1957 Meaning those 10% - which are among us now and forever, help or not. Tip: (if it's not something hopelessly innate) the first two years of bad treatment defines person's life permanently. Then it's only up to him or her.
Gee, could it have anything to do with the fact that prices for everything are going up, wages are stagnant and people feel like they have no future?
Africa for Africans, Asia for Asians, White countries for Everybody?!
ONLY White countries are BULLIED that they must be BLENDED out of existence to solve the “race problem”, and this quest is never ending.
Africa will still be African
Asia will still be Asian
For White people and ONLY White people it is oblivion.
It’s increasingly obvious:
Anti-racist is a CODEWORD for anti-White.
Utility companies, like enmax and Direct Energy have raised there prices every year, including gas going back up to over 133 per litre in Calgary. They're trying to bury people. No question.
Are these prices going up for nefarious reasons? Or is it possible that the population is rapidly increasing while non-renewable energy resources are becoming harder to extract?
@@DontGoToHell Another whinny boy...
Just keep on electing and reelecting them and you keep on getting what you keep on getting!
Wow, didn't know that. MAJOR.
Right on this time... I agree
Strange how he relates drinking to being passed out drunk the whole time. I've lived in Europe my entire life and here it is very normal to have a glass of wine during lunch without getting "shitfaced".
I think that he is more referring to the particular problem that the USA faces. A culture of seeing becoming drunk as the end goal of drinking. It is a very different outlook from that of Europe. There are few people in Europe who, when out drinking with their friends, are “keeping score”, trying to out drink those they are with, doing things like “chugging” drinks (attempting to down an entire drink in one draught).
I think it's normal around the world to drink a beer/wine with lunch, even in the US, even though most people don't generally do it. For me it's friday lunch thing, if I do it at all. The difference is when you start putting bars at wholefoods and fast food restaurants.
@slider2699 Almost. He looks at alcohol, like it's a recreational substance, or a "drug" if you will. Which weed is also, but not in the same degree.
Nonchalant attitudes such as yours, PetroleumPelle, encourage others to drink alcohol to excess. Thanks. Stay in Europe or go back there.
@@paulppchristman5827 No. Recreational substances are not the problem. It's the education about them and knowing your limits that's the problem. Not a glass of wine with food, which weirdly enough actually has some longevity benefits if you also eat healthy.
Bill always addresses the elephant in the room that we all want to avoid- Thanks for shining the light - cheers 🍻
Americans don't have a drinking problem. Corporations have a selling problem, alcohol = profits and that's all that matters to them. Anxiety is a serious issue for this country and we would be foolish to only blame ourselves for the problem.
That's not America's only problem. America has an education and critical thinking problem.
Mix that with a drinking problem and youve got a dangerous cocktail
I couldn't agree more.
@@itstrbo Mix that with guns everywhere and you've got a cocktail molotov
Let's clink a single-malt, 50-year scotch glass to the over-educated with critical thinking problems who are running the country.
It has economic problems, inequality, expensive medicine and lack of healthcare. Alcohol like any drug is a coping mechanism. You know, these are the things that a "communist" like Sanders would want to solve.
Loved this episode Bill. Very well done!
9 months sober here! I'd love to see alcohol banned country wide! Let's get it!!!!!!
Two things that should be mentioned about people drinking all the time in the 1800’s are that alcohol content was way way lower in every type of alcohol, and that ciders were often safer to drink than water bc towns didn’t have good water purification systems
So people just drank more?
John Doe
Hard to compare now with the 19thc.Then, people drank all day because they did hard labor and were in constant pain from chronic health conditions. Not to mention the frightful pain women had from constant pregnancy and giving birth to too many children with absolutely zero modern health care help.
@@jeffercinadams9026 old lists of the amount of drink monks, workers etc were to receive seems to indicate insane amounts of both liquid and alcohol. Like five to six litres of beer.
I'm thankful that someone else knows their history when it comes to the use of alcohol in the previous eras. Was about to type this same thing. Those ciders & ale were only like 1%-2% abv. Modern beers start at about 4%.
Alcohol levels steadily rise in western nations as people seek to get drunk faster, & the insane cost of drinking while in social gatherings becomes astronomical. People want more alcohol for their dollar because a cocktail runs $16-$25 on average. In places like Japan, they still serve very low alcohol containing drinks in moderation, including some with extremely low abv to be enjoyed. I myself wouldn't mind some basic 3-4% ales while dining, but at $12-$18 for a pint, I end up drinking one at 8%.
@@andersbjrnsen7203 Monks brewed beer because they also didn't have clean water on hand regularly. Especially since they were typically shut in away from society. They also regularly fasted, which was strictly adhered to, & needed something high in calories that wasn't food. The monks believed alcohol was a blessing from God, & were at the forefront of brewing technology. Since fermentation was spontaneous, they felt the ale was blessed - not to mention the natural carbonation it produces. Some sects brewed strong ale to sell in order to support the church. Especially Trappist monks, who were far removed from it. Generally the beer they drank was watered down substantially, & low alcohol content. The several liters per day regulation was typically during fasting, but also shows some limits on moderation. Plus they couldn't drink all day, or their water supply would be gone rather quickly.
You see alcohol used this way in many small towns, or places far from society like a ship. They had no understanding of bacteria or sickness, & just general knowledge that fermented barley malt & hops produced a sweet drink that gave them energy & was safe for consumption.
"Find what you love, and let it kill you". Charles Bukowski
Fat,drunk and stupid is no way to go through life son - Animal House 1978
We really do need to make alcohol consumption a punishable crime. Stop making it availabel. Bring back prohibition in some form
Bills comments about increased alcohol use are spot on. As a 62 year old who really doesnt drink much, i have been noticing this about friends for several years now. Including my spouse. I have friends that attempt to disguise it as a serious interest in different wines, wine tasting, wine exploration, but I’d be comfortable betting the farm that if wine did not have alcohol in it, these friends would hardly pay any attention to wine at all.
Spot on. My mother never had booze in the house when I was growing up, or for years after. Now, she has a fully stocked bar at home. She's 74, retired and financially comfortable for 20 years. She laughs it off as being part of the fun of being retired, while drinking and ingesting cannabis edibles. She's the child of an alcoholic with a drug addict brother and still thinks it's all fine. Very sad. In general, I see drinking being not just accepted but expected.
That was one of Maher's best outro in a long time, bravo.
Drinking more, drinking during the day, and drinking alone = MELANIA 🤣🤣🤣
MAGA Rita.
I think he meant Kamala. Melania is long gone.
@@laurielewis2745 Gone where? Still married, isn't she?
A lot of this really hits home. Well done segment.
Heck yeah. I'm glad you addressed this Bill. Definitely an important topic.
Yep. Having lived overseas for nearly a decade, it's pretty obvious from the outside: America's trouble isn't substance issues (lots of places rival or exceed our drinking) but the complete lack of meaningful community. America is a nation of self-destructive loners going through the motions of polite society but taking every opportunity to kick the shit out of their neighbors. Meaningful engagement, a sense of fellowship and shared purpose are what calm anxiety; all Americans have got is escapism.
👏👏👏👏👏👏Perfect! Great comment.
Well Said Buddy! I couldn't agree more!
I have video games for that.
"all Americans have got is escapism"
You misspelled capitalism.
Hey shallow head many Americans Escape.into positive things too......you ALL bs needs to be called out... Thanks
The only reason people still talk to me is because there were no cameraphones when I was still drinking.
Underrated comment.
@@somni2246 vastly..
Cameraphone?
@@gnk-seriespowerdroid4405 Yes, that was what we used to call phones with cameras on them before every phone had a camera.
@@dsjoakim35 ah I see
43 minutes sober, cracking another Lagunitas now 🎉🎉🎉
I Don't have a problem until I don't have a drink!!!
This hit way too close to home
We need to become experts in emotional resiliency.
A better economic model will also help, a lot.
@@Hirnlego999 And you can't build a better economic model while cowering in the corner with a glass of alcohol.
Hirnlego999 you can always find an excuse
@@raphaelostrowski6336 called secondary gain. They find escape into alcoholism easier than finding solutions.
I dunno. I know it sounds simplistic, but perhaps people should start to try-- even just a bit-- to not be so offended by things, to have a thicker skin, and not feel compelled to play the victim over every little thing they find " offensive".
I'm 266 days sober and I decided to go a year with no booze. It's rough, I go to a group every week which makes it easier, and at this point I don't know if I will ever drink again. It's hard to see so many people die of alcohol related issues.
Good work and keep it going. No one nerds booze and there is literally no positive side to it.
Keep up the good work.
According to research in Canada, alcohol causes cancer but there are no warnings on alcohol.
Dear Bill. Jimmy Failon, Jimmy Kibble and that other guy that is forgettable have nothing on you. You are still funny and have WIT. The rest of them only have the orange man. They are ONE DIMENSIONAL. I don't agree with many things you say about Republicans, however, I appreciate your candor and share your disdain for PHONY people. You still have talent.
I would actually say Stephen Colbert actually has more talent than anyone other than Conan. But of course Colbert does not even have a comedy routine anymore because his network takes bribes from the DNC...
Bill Maher is the only late night talk show host that actually speaks his mind. I disagree with a lot of the things he believes but I respect that he's not afraid of getting fired.
I’m a millennial. 27 years old. I quit drinking when the pandemic really hit the US last year, because my body revolted after 6 years of using drinks here and there to calm my anxiety (including at work, at an accounting firm, where it was common practice during meetings). Hell, I was flying alone at 18 on a transcontinental flight, in first class, and had four drinks. I’ve never been happier. Years of cognitive behavioral therapy have helped my underlying anxiety disorder. I’m all about people doing whatever the fuck they want, but alcohol has shown me it’s scarier side. I always thought, “well I’m not breaking the law (driving) and I’m not hurting people. I don’t have a problem.” I was hurting myself. Be careful, my friends.
4 drinks? Holy shit! 🤪🙄
@@LunsJail Transcontinental flights are long duration flights. Four drinks over several hours may not be as potent when spaced out. A flight from the East Coast to Europe can be eight hours or more.
I'm glad you made it out fam ...... I'm a law student seriously suffering from marijuana addiction but I hope to get out someday
Love 💚 from Nigeria
Behavioral Therapy = Xanax
The pandemic is when many started.
I quit drinking 2 years ago and feel so much better.
33 years for me, the best decision
@Daniel Dalton that's awesome brother, way too go! Quitting drinking is no easy task. God bless you, today and always!
🙏♥
@@guybartlett9587 stopped drinking in 1992 and haven't missed it at all. What was interesting though was the invites to parties started dying out as word got around. I'd go to a party, the host would ask, drink? I'd reply coffee or water. Oh, you're not drinking? Yes, coffee or water are drinks. Host: No I mean a beer or spirit, everyone else is having alcohol. Me: that's fine, I'm not stopping them, I just don't drink alcohol anymore. After about 6 months the invites stopped. Didn't get my coffee or water, so started taking my own bottled water.
@@slatibaadfast Yeah they hate when you're not part of club silly. Good for you. I don't drink and haven't for a few years now. I feel so much better about everything.
@@slatibaadfast I would rather drop into a nice juicy wave than drop my glass! Just made that up...
Keep it up my friend.
Very well spoken 👍 (And researched....) Thanks!
"...our dependence on screens..." , he says while feeding your screen.
The irony is that Bill wouldn’t have a job without screens.
Not drinking feels so good. Each day gets better. Feels like a weight off my back. Started it for health. Keeping it for happiness
Thanks,,,I needed to hear that today. 😊
I hear ya bro. Once I tried Carfentanil, I never went back to Alcohol.
@@judgegixxer is Carfentanil opioid derivative of Fentanyl????!!!!!! 😕
🤗
Any type of drug you use to make you feel better will have diminishing return, and then it just becomes a pain in the ass to maintain. Everything in moderation.
There’s so many alcoholics on both sides of my family I haven’t even risked it.
Respect
Salut
I lost two uncles to alcohol when I was really young.. I noticed they weren't showing up at parties no more and I asked why and I was told.. I don't drink I have never had a drink I don't want to drink. Those two were the funniest men I've ever met in my family
Me too. Including my sister and my deceased father
I would guess that almost every family has a few alcoholics if you looked closely enough. Just some have a few more than others.
Don’t tell me to quit drinking I don’t need that negativity in my life
"You get over it..."😂 top line...i wish it was common phrase again...
What a selfish society we have. All those drunks driving on the roads endanger so many of us.
I hope they get you ..!! less preaching from your kind , on what to do with my life...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'd stay home and get drunk. I don't have anywhere to go.
Aww what lovely virtue signaling. f off
I stopped drinking alcohol and it feels great!!
Congratulations!
Way to stick it to the alcohol industry. Those greedy fuckers rely on getting people hooked
I quit cold turkey back in ‘15. I do get cravings sometimes when I hear a great song on a sunny day to drink some beer but I’ve got too many people depending on me nowadays. Besides, those hangovers were mutherfuckers!
@@exciteddemonstrator9150 Every industry out there is out to get you hooked. That's how business works. The more people they manage to get addicted to their products, the more profit. People are also stupid as fuck getting addicted to tobacco, spending loads of money just to kill themselves quicker and send them off to an early grave. I mean how stupid is that?
Congrats man !
Well said!
Spot on, Bill!!
Hi dear
Wine being called “Mommy Juice” is promoting casual alcoholism, and if you call this out, you’re a buzzkill…
It is also a sign that a lot of moms are burnt out. And it creates & re-inforces the forbidden fruit effect with regards to alcohol for kids.
@@bramvanduijn8086 yeah being a mom is so hard 🙄
@@willjones6400 After seeing all the hard work my parents put in in raising me, I'd say being a mom is hard yes.
@@normanreviewsgames698 roofing in 95 degree weather is hard. Raising your child is your duty as a decent human being
@@willjones6400 I did not imply, nor would I ever imply that a roofer's job is not difficult.
To quote Dean Martin: "I quit drinking, I now freeze it and eat is like a popsicle"
That’s a clever joke…hope he was joking!!
Dean martin is the man. We need real entertainers like dean and sinatra and crosby back
@@allisonroberts1379 He was joking. Dean was actually a devoted family man and his drunk persona was a schtick for laughs
@@Chim510
😊!
He also said "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up and that's as good as their day ever gets".
Good for stress. Love it.
Hi dear
Recently started watching your show
SOO GOOD N TO THE POINT !!!
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As I watch this, im 6 shots in. Why does he have to go and make a good point.
6 shots in? While you’re alone? That would definitely concern me…
"I gave up smoking, women and drinking last night
It was the worst fifteen minutes of my life."😆
- Rodney Atkins
Lol you guys! 🤣
Bill thanks so much
Exactly, "everybody just needs to get a grip."
"Social media is the opposite of social"
Very much true
Millennial here. We got served with this one!
@Brey That idea is comically stupid. It is like trying to fly two Zeppelin sized ego's through a keyhole... will never happen...
Anyone who thinks this is an accident...is fooling themselves.
Yep, weed shops on every corner and liquor stores open even during the strictest lockdown phases.
The plane flight looks like a typical holiday flight from the U.K. to Ibiza.
"Stars of the real housewives have it on their faces." Among other things that have gone on their faces to become a reality "star".
Great comment. Ho ho ho ho ho.
@@SirLangsalot add a few 'es's to those hoes and we can definitely agree on something
That was likely the implication, yes :D
Africa for Africans, Asia for Asians, White countries for Everybody?!
ONLY White countries are BULLIED that they must be BLENDED out of existence to solve the “race problem”, and this quest is never ending.
Africa will still be African
Asia will still be Asian
For White people and ONLY White people it is oblivion.
It’s increasingly obvious:
Anti-racist is a CODEWORD for anti-White.
Slut shaming? What year is this?
People are drinking because living America is becoming more and more nightmarish by the day.
That is true everywhere i think ? It's true in EU at least
People know the system is stacked against them, and that legacy/corporate media will never tell the truth of how.
They retreat to social media to find the like minded, but only increase their own anxiety.
I think people drink B/C the whole American idea is a lie.
I'm not convinced it is any worse or any better than it was before. People simply have more ways to compare themselves to other people. And because of the delusion of social media, where people curate their image of having their perfect job and living their perfect lives, living in their perfect house with their perfect spouse and taking the perfect vacation with their perfect kids.
In reality, those people have often openly admitted the entire facade was a carefully produced lie. It is like women getting body image issues and anxiety from comparing themselves to magazine covers and pictures, while in reality those people are airbrushed and photo shopped and don't actually exist in that form in real life.
Add camera filters, makeup and lighting and everyone is trying outfake everyone else in the fake social media world.
In real life, people are anxious, stressed out, hopelessly lonely and increasingly feel like they live in a world they don't belong in.
That is the real tragedy of technology and social media. It doesn't substitute for the real thing, no matter how much people try to convince themselves it does.
Great analysis. I see this in myself.
Absolutely beautiful segment
So so so true. Thanks for the "talking to" Bill 😎
a grocery store with a bar in it seems like something that would've been created by South Park
Where and how do you think Trey and Matt came up with that idea?
Or Los Angeles…
In Louisiana you can get daiquiris at a drive through.
Well...I'll draw the line at free beer in the gun store...
We don't have bars in supermarkets where I live, but one chain does have a restaurant associated with it, and they serve liquor.
Spot on
Spot on! As an Irishman, we've been doing this ad infinitum< and we're doing splendidly.
Problem isn’t alcohol availability, rather it’s societal forces increasingly inducing loneliness, anxiety, boredom, depression, etc. that’s been causing the steady rise in alcohol consumption.
Even more than that, it is the attitude towards smoking, alcohol and drugs that is causing this epidemic.
I have all the situations and symptoms you mention (except boredom), but I have never thought of using any of those poisons.
Humans are too susceptible to suggestion, and if these ills are presented as "cool" or "OK", and then advertised and made available everywhere, it is no surprise that masses will fall for it.
As for the boredom part, people need to try doing something good, right or useful, and they will find their hands full, with hardly any free time. If they try to do something stupid, bad or useless, there is so much of it surrounding them that there is not much left to do.
Increasing (useful) knowledge can really help against boredom.
There comes a time when you drink long enough your body skips the fun buzz phase.
Loneliness, anxiety, boredom, depression, the main root cause for all these things is a lack of self control or discipline
@@FriedrichBarb Hmm, anxiety and depression may be physiological ailments beyond one’s control for some folks, or at least alleviatable with prescription meds.
@@aroundandround Yes some pills do help a lot since I know much family and friends who it’s helped from experience, but it’s foolish to rely solely on pills and not change your way of life that makes you unhappy, or focusing on becoming more disciplined or strong minded, which is more important than medication in my opinion
Haven't seen that Ken burns documentary yet. Loved his Civil War pieces. Done so much great historical work
He does pop BS.
Anyone see history of cocaine????? Hbo 10 years ago...
The civi war one was brilliant in various ways
Darin, you should definitely check out Burns' Prohibition series, it's one of his best. I also highly recommend his Vietnam series.
@@donofon101 good for him. The shelby foote parts are quite disturbing in that he claims slavery was on the way out in the south yet fails to mention that 99.99999 percent of the southern citizenry believed "blacks" were fundamentally inferior to "whites" . nevertheless the documentary is well worth watching.
Thank you bill for the awake call.
If you have anxiety and you drink coffee on a daily basis.. you need to consider some things.
From Slovenia people: Greetings, please send our mail order bride back to us so we can recycle her!!!..🤣🍾
Gladly! LOL.
No problem . I will even pay to get rid of her.
As soon as she wakes up.
We think Bill Cosby drugged her.
I kept telling her that's not what I meant when I ordered a White Russian
@@PhantasyStarved 😂
Medicare For All would curb anxiety in millions of Americans, I'm sure.
A permanent law passed where our wages go up if our Employers raise prices (Inflation)! $15 an hour now, and $20 an hour by 2030!
TAX THE RICH!
And I guarantee Bill Maher is NOT in favour of that...
Seriously they canceled mine without notice or warning, their online services are down and the don't pick up the phone so that I can get answers. I swear I don't drink but I don't blame those who do, this country is a mess.
@@kellibarnhouse6591 We had a similar system here in Italy, it was called "scala mobile" (escalator).
It worked from 1945 (first partially, then for all salaries) to 1984 when the government started to cut it, and then eliminated it in 1992.
It worked, helping massively the spending power of working class families... but inflation was HUGE and destroyed any savings.
So people with savings (especially rich people) won the debate, you know, the Eighties, Reagan-Thatcher ecc
@@jakobbauz in the Italian Constitution of 1947 health is a right and the Republic guarantees helthcare to the needy.
So the principle is great, and almost nobody go bankrupt for medical expenses.
The real healthcare service have some issues however...
The national healthcare system was at first very centralized and somewhat inefficient, especially in the poorest parts of Italy.
Then around 2000 a big federalist reform was made, and now all 20 regions have big power on their local system.
Instead of solving the problems this made a mess and worsened the differences between rich and poor parts of Italy.
Local healthcare systems are also a frequent place of corruption for local politicians and businessmen.
Rightwing politicians, especially in the rich parts of Italy, try to copy the US, favoring private hospitals and helthcare insurances, and this was a common political debate point:
"The public system is obsolete, we need few great advanced private hospitals like the US"
"No, we need more and better public hospitals and less corruption"
Then Covid...
And the mess of having multiple healtcare systems became apparent.
Sometimes the rich regions that chose big private hospitals were the worst, having destroied the public system to save money.
... and somethimes the poorer regions had no money for their public hospitals needing the Army.
Now we will invest billions in public healtcare, I hope we do it right.
That was a really good one A public health monologue. And Ken Burns is great love all his documentaries
My opinion is still that alcohol is the worst drug there is. Nothing but problems.