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

Thank you, people.

How you doing?

Welcome to Rainy, Los Angeles.

Thank you so much.

I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Thank you. I'm always very grateful when anybody comes out in the rain in this town.

It's so funny. I love rain in L.A.

The same people who never stop telling you to hydrate, hydrate, hydrate,

freak out when water falls from the sky.

But the good news, the shutdown of the government is over.

Okay, okay.

And all that really happened was they canceled some flights and some poor people went hungry,

although not hungry enough to eat the leftover airline food.

But now, at that's over, we can get back to the important business of government reading a dead pervert's emails.

We're doing this again?

Again, Epstein?

Have you been following the Epstein?

I feel like I've seen this movie four times.

Right?

Where they release it, and there's always more.

So this week, Democrats release some...

Of course, each party is going to try to get the other one to say Trump is guilty or not.

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