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

Thank you. Oh, thank you. Please. Thank you. You're a fantastic audience. Thank you. I know what. I know why I'm happy today because this is our last show here from my man cave going back to the studio next week.

Next week and not a moment to soon because you know it was hot boy we got a heat wave here in California. We got in LA we got these rolling blackouts that's a little different rolling blackout in LA that's when you lose your electricity while you're high on Molly.

Yeah, oh, it's hot here local officials are urging looters to stay hydrated.

We got a new thing I'm not making this a fire tornado. I get really love California always ahead of the curve on new trends that fire tornadoes boy. Now look I know this sounds like something you don't want but remember you said that about podcasts and anal sex.

Oh, and speaking of on fire did you see the Democratic Convention. Hashtag sarcasm. Oh man, how to describe it is like you ever tune into the Jerry Lewis telephone it like two in the morning.

It was a lot like that. But it accomplished what it had to accomplish Joe Biden accepted the nomination this week in a high school library. Oh, it gets worse and an old lady came out and surest them.

Wednesday night Obama spoke he killed it took the gloves off against Trump. He said Trump has no interest in doing the work and Trump was so pissed about that that he missed a two foot put.

Also Joe, you know, he's going after the youth vote so he was interviewed by Cardi B and yeah she interviewed and Biden said that his daughter gave him a nickname Joey B and he also has a rap name. You know that Joe Biden yes it's the fresh fresh prince of smell hair.

Yeah, Joe asked Cardi, you know, as politicians do, you know, what are the issues that are of interest to you that matter to you? And she Cardi said she wants free health care.

She wants free college and she wants racial justice and Joe said, hey, whatever gets your pussy wet.

But it was a very, very nice interview on an ended well at the end. Cardi said, this is why I will vote for you. And Joe said, and this is why I picked you as my running mate.

Joe is a kid job. But hey, big news out of the Senate, the Senate Intelligence Committee this week released their report on Trump and Russia and big surprise. Yes, there was quite a bit of collusion.

Trump's campaign manager, Paul Manafort, get this was using 10 different encrypted messaging apps like Wicker, Signal, Threma, Fiber, Voxer, Hushmail.

That's a little fishy. Thank God he wasn't using a private email server.

But let me just reiterate, finally, next week we are back in the studio. Now there are some trade-offs there. Yes, there's a slightly greater risk of infection, but a much lower risk of stepping in dog shit after new rules.

All right, we got a great show. We have Oliver Stone, John Kasich, the Reverend Dr. William Barbour, the second and Thomas Frank.

I spoke to them all yesterday. Let's get to it.

Okay, my first guest is the former Republican governor from Ohio who spoke on the first night of the Democratic Genesore Convention this week and endorsed Joe Biden for president and our friend, John Kasich.

Governor, I know they say politics makes strange bedfellows. Did you ever think in your wildest dreams that you would be at a Democratic Convention opening for Bernie Sanders?

Well, it seems a little bit, you know, kind of out of the ordinary bill, but you know, my whole career, I've had great relations with people in the other party.

One of them is a guy named Ron Dellum. So you might recall he was a very liberal Democrat. He was a congressman. He was the mayor of Oakland.

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