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

Thank you very much. Oh, thank you. Great to see you. Great to see people. People actually human beings look at this. Thank you so much.

Thank you. I appreciate it. Great to see you. We were...

Thank you.

Thank you. We were off last week in the words of Ted Cruz. I'm back. What I miss.

Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz. Good for comedy this guy. Proof that shit can step in itself. Isn't it? He's just...

And I'm not big of fun in Texas. You know, I got it, or you might used to, when I could travel. That may happen again.

God, it's Texas a lot. Texas is fun. But boy, I tell you, it is. It is a fun place. Not used to the cold, though they're in Texas.

And men were showing up in the emergency room with their lips stuck to their gun. Terrible.

Just... They had a cold snap down there that you can't believe. On the highway, the truck nuts were shriveled on the vehicles.

And Ted Cruz, of course, you know, that he went to... He bogged out and went to Gantt Koon and then blamed the none as kids.

He said, I was trying to be a dad. Yeah. Except when they lower the lifeboats, then I try to look like mom.

It's his own. Oh, yeah, they're a public...

Well, public and party, they are struggling right now. They need heroes because I'm sure you also saw this the week we were off last week, Rush Limbaugh died.

Oh, please. Hold your tears.

His legacy will live on whenever a rub is yelling fuck yeah by a transistor radio. So...

I... Ted Rush. He's gone now. He can't hear me. But, hey, there's scandals on the other side too. Andrew Cuomo in New York, you read about that.

Now he's got a sexual harassment scandal. Some woman in the office says he shouldn't have flirting. I don't know, you know.

That's what she's kissing. That shouldn't have happened to jokes that were not good. I know it sounds cheap. It was actually very romantic. He said to her, I want to grow old with you.

And then put you in a home and cover up your death.

But... American politics. It's so screwed, right? I mean, the crazies are just in ascendant now, right?

I mean, the 22-year-old woman, did you see this this week who... Part of the Capitol riot, who got in there and stole Nancy Pelosi's laptop, is a video now of her dancing to techno and giving the Hyl Hitler salute.

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