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

Thank you very much. Please, please, please sit your ass down. Thank you.

Thank you, please, I appreciate it.

All right, all right, all right. What do I do?

Thank you, I, I got.

I appreciate that very much. I would, I would let, I love you.

So thank you.

I would let, I would let this go on all night.

Except there is so much news, really. Some weeks there's not a lot of, there are so, almost too much news.

I mean, my gosh, what is happening? Rachel unrest in this country, another terror attack in France, a coup that's going on in Turkey as we speak.

I didn't think I would make it through this week if I hadn't captured Pikachu. I tell you, it's, oh.

What, what the fuck is this?

Hook of man. Really, it's not just that I'm old, it's, it's stupid. It just plain stupid, no matter how old you are.

You know, right?

I, I read that it has been downloaded more times in a week than Tinder has been in all its four years of existence.

Which means Americans would rather catch polka mons than fuck. How sick is that?

And you know, it's dangerous. Senator Al Franken is saying it is collecting by the app. Too much personal information.

It knows somebody's email address, it knows your Google account, it knows your location, it knows you have no life.

I, I think I know the appeal. People are just happy to be catching something with their cell phones that is not police brutality.

Yeah. Yeah. Rough couple of weeks. Yesterday, President Obama met with police for four hours at the White House to discuss racial bias. It did not go well. He left in cuffs.

I'm telling you this.

And of course the man who can make anything worse, Donald Trump.

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