Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late-night series Real Time with Bill Maugh.

Thank you very much. How are you today? Oh, thank you very much. Please, please.

That was the crowd, a hot crowd. Yeah. Well, it's Oscar fever time. Yeah, Oscar fever.

Okay, that's pretty good. Well, nice weather for it. We got beautiful. Actually, a little too nice. The award season has been kind of like overly hot.

Last week at the Grammys, Lady Gaga's meat dress went bad.

And this is the first time this has never happened before. The Oscars are falling on the same day as the Daytona 500. Yeah. And they're both sponsored by Coke.

So that's... I'm just kidding. Some great films this year. Just not once you'd call, what's the word, popular.

You know, the kind of words when you... the movies where you ask people, you know, if they've seen them, they're like, boyhood, yeah, almost. Almost saw that one.

A whiplash, yeah, I should see that one. I really... I meant to. Falk Catcher. Yeah, I'm gonna make time to...

You know, the kind of movies you see in the classy theater where the usher comes out before the movie to tell you you're doing the right thing.

Welcome to the arc like. Now, let's get this over with. Yes, Oscar movies about artists and how they suffered for their art. And now it's your turn.

That's the other thing that I don't know. I think it's kind of controversial. There's a goody bag they give out to rich, spoiled movie stars.

That has $125,000 worth of swag. Bigs, come on. Show business is hard back-breaking work. It's a little... bad time these people got a little something in return for it.

$125,000. They're giving way to movie stars. And it includes a $250 vibrator. I'm not kidding. Now, that's the new gift this year. Everybody's buzzing about it. It's...

No. This stuff in the bag, the trips, the accessories, the designer wear... That's all a thank you for participating in the broadcast.

The vibrator is to see if they can get anyone's face to move. But just so you know the difference. A vibrator is a sex toy that runs on batteries. Ryan Seacrest is a dildo.

That's a bad bit. Well, you know what? We got the movie stars out here. We got the sunshight out here. You know what we got out here? Disease.

Yeah, first we had the measles. And you know, that death toll is steady at zero. But now we got something really bad. There is a drug-resistant super bug called CR3.

It is to give you an idea how bad it is. It is ten times more deadly than the bug that is up John McCain's ass.

And there's been an outbreak at UCLA at the Ronald Reagan Medical Center. 180 people have this. And you know, when you get this, there's nothing really they can do. It's very, very serious.

First of all, I don't even like it that they named a hospital after Ronald Reagan. I don't think that's appropriate. He ignored AIDS his entire first term when it was an epidemic.

I mean, naming a hospital after Ronald Reagan is like naming an energy drink after Bill Cosby. I just don't think it's the right thing to do.

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