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

You could come over and make a good impression on my pillow.

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Okay, here are the questions from the people who wrote in.

What explains Ben Carson's rise in the polls?

Good question.

He's yeast.

That's not good.

Well, he's the soft-spoken Donald Trump.

I mean, let's have to get Ben Carson to super crazy.

We did an editor a couple of years ago,

but the phenomenon, what I call smart stupid people,

somehow he's a brilliant neurosurgeon who believes the world is 5,000 years old.

I mean, as long as I live, I will never understand that divide in people's minds.

How you can be brilliant and a total fucking idiot at the same time.

He had a press conference today from Berger.

And I was watching this and he was very fluid and very smart.

And I'm like, God, this guy's really clever.

And then there's a part in the press conference where I remember that he compared America

current, 2015 America, to Nazi Germany.

And when given the chance to walk this back, he said, no, no, it's pretty much like Nazi Germany.

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