Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late-night series Real Time with Bill Maugh. How are you doing?

How are you doing?

Thank you very much.

I appreciate it.

How are you? Thank you very much.

Okay. Thank you for coming.

In a somewhat difficult week.

Thank you. I appreciate it.

Well.

I hope that's for what I think it's for, because I've always wanted to be someone who wants to talk to people.

It was a very ugly week in America with violence of all kinds, political violence, regular violence,

a lot of people talking about a civil war.

And then today in Congress, because Charlie Kirk got assassinated, Lauren Bober stood up and said,

we need to have a prayer.

So they started to have a prayer, a silent prayer, and then she started screaming,

no, silent prayers get silent results,

as if praying out loud gets big results.

So, but, so, so.

So then the Democrats started screaming at her,

that there was a school shooting in her state.

I tell you, so far, the civil war is not very civil.

But at least we have the killer now.

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