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

Let's start the clock.

Thank you, all. Thank you. Thank you, studio audience.

Greetings. Big day here at HBO for us.

Greetings for our new viewers at HBO Max.

Yes. And of course, our regular viewers at HBO,

and all you cheap bastards who wait to watch us on YouTube.

But look, it's like when it's at our eighth show here from the home.

And look, it's frustrating, but I am very happy that we are still able to do the kind of show we do here and put it on.

I mean, it's nothing sadder than watching the Real Housewives try to throw wine at each other over Zoom.

That is...

But we had a big holiday weekend, Memorial Day, and all the Americans could not wait to get out there.

Boy, the gloves were off, and then when the masks came off, and eventually the pants.

Did you see the, like, the Lake of the Ozarks and the Jersey Shore, by hope they, you know, people?

I got to say Americans, it proved once again. Americans, they wanted to do the right thing.

But if someone taps a keg and cranks up the Leonard Skinnerd, all bets are off.

You could tell conservatives, even conservatives, are a little worried about this.

We still need to take precautions.

But, like, Sean Hannity this week was almost begging people to wear the face masks.

I guess he finally has realized that the Venn diagram of most vulnerable Americans and Fox News viewers is a circle.

But he can't blame people for wanting to get out there.

The Census Bureau is now reporting that a third of Americans are showing signs of anxiety and clinical depression.

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