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

Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you. Oh, you're so kind. How you doing? Thank you for

me. Thank you. Thank you. How about a hand for our producer Dean Johnson who did the warm-up?

Usually, you know, the regular warm-up guy, six, so he did it. That was fucking painful.

Wasn't it? Thank you, Dean. Anyway, you don't know what I'm talking about here at home, but I know

why you're happy and probably at home we've reached 100 days of the Biden administration. It's like, it's like, it's like America was a three-month juice cleanse.

I feel so much lighter. I mean, it's amazing how much Trump was in there.

And Joe celebrated with his favorite beer, Old Malarkey. But he's going to have to celebrate. The economy is surging.

Growth 6.4%. Now, close to a lot of this because we were stuck last year, but even for any time, in one quarter, 6.4%.

This is... This is Fox News' worst nightmare. They convince everybody Biden is a socialist and then, oh shit, it's working.

To give you an idea how rapidly this economy is moving, take a chart of the Oscar ratings and turn it upside down.

Oh, yeah. Very low. Sad. 10 million people. You used to get like super bowl numbers. 10 million. This show's gotten almost half of that.

One of the winners went up there and did that thing they always do. He thanked his agent and then told his kids and got a bad kid. And the babies that are texted back, they already did.

Nobody liked this show, I think.

But the economists say the surge in the economy is driven by you people, the consumer, the consumer, ladies and gentlemen, people are spending. It's like we're all strippers.

And the government made it rain. And now we can't wait to hit Jimmy Chuse. You know what I mean?

And I can see it. I'm on the drive in today. I saw a packed car dealership. I saw a long line for an open house. And there were two people at Sears.

So cool.

I tried to give a pen handler five bucks today and he told me to make a more serious offer. I tell you. But Joe, did you see his speech? He gave us what really is the state of the union speech his first one? Did you what?

Not you people? Well, you did.

I thought he was good. I mean, he hadn't been a member of Congress in 2008. Lot of new faces, lot of new names. He thought AOC was the active ingredient in weed.

But it did pretty well. 22 million people watched. It's interesting. The older Democrats saw it on TV. The millennials watched it on their phone. And the QAnon folks listen to it over the 5G in their vaccine.

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