To Health and Back

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To Health and Back

With our Republican Congress doing absolutely nothing to sustain or to improve Obamacare and, in fact, doing everything they can to sabotage it, it’s no wonder people don’t like it, right? It’s like buying someone a puppy and not letting them train or care for it and then saying, “Look what a bad dog you have.” But what’s funny is people do like it.  

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Submit Your Overtime Questions for June 10, 2016

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Bill and his roundtable guests - Sen. Barbara Boxer, Katie Packer, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ana Marie Cox & Tom Morello - will answer viewer questions after Friday's show. 

Submit your questions in the Comments section below. Selected questions will be answered on the Real Time YouTube channel immediately following the premiere. Please be aware that concise (50 words or less) single-topic questions have the best chance of being selected, so the shorter and more specific you can be, the better.

Man Problems

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Man Problems

A YouGov report called “The Decline of the Manly Man” was making the rounds recently. It asked 1,000 American men where they would put themselves on a spectrum of completely masculine (zero) to completely feminine (six). The results found that Millennial men don’t see themselves as terribly masculine. Points for self-awareness, I guess. 

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Submit Your Overtime Questions for June 3, 2016

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Bill and his roundtable guests - Nick Hanauer, Eddie Huang, John Avlon, Matt Welch & Neil deGrasse Tyson - will answer viewer questions after Friday's show. 

Submit your questions in the Comments section below. Selected questions will be answered on the Real Time YouTube channel immediately following the premiere. Please be aware that concise (50 words or less) single-topic questions have the best chance of being selected, so the shorter and more specific you can be, the better.

Guest List: June 3, 2016

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The Interview:

Nick Hanauer is the co-founder and partner of the venture capital firm Second Avenue Partners, and the co-author of The Gardens of Democracy. In 2014, he gave a TED talk entitled, “Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming.”

Twitter: @NickHanauer

The Panel:

John Avlon is the Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Beast, a CNN Political Analyst and the author of Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America. He recently wrote about Donald Trump’s attempts to revive Clinton conspiracy theories. 

Twitter: @JohnAvlon 

Eddie Huang is the host of Viceland’s “Huang’s World,” and author of the new memoir Double Cup Love: On the Trail of Family, Food and Broken Hearts in China.

Twitter:  @MrEddieHuang

Matt Welch is Editor-in-Chief of Reason Magazine. He is the co-author of the 2011 book, The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong with America. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and several other publications. In his latest piece for The Spectator, he writes about the likelihood of an Independent candidate emerging to defeat Donald Trump.

Twitter: @MattWelch

Mid-Show Interview: 

Neil DeGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist and the Director of the Hayden Planetarium. He is the host of “Star Talk,” on National Geographic, as well as a podcast by the same name. In 2014, he hosted a 13-part sequel to Carl Sagan’s 1980 television documentary, Cosmos. 

Twitter: @NeilTyson


Submit a question for this week’s guests using #RTOvertime and watch them answer LIVE after the show on the Real Time YouTube channel. 

Trendspotting

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Trendspotting

The Supreme Court is down a man – Antonin Scalia has gone to his reward, which is an eternity with David Bowie and Prince – but the Senate is too busy to hold hearings to replace him. You know, like it says in the Constitution they love. They do, however, have time to investigate liberal bias at Facebook. Which sounds like big government interfering with the job creators, but what do I know? I get my news from Grindr. 

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