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

Here we are and over time, uh, let's see.

Well, I guess we've done good tonight.

Uh, Louie, do you have any suggestions for keeping a family together in this era of hyperpartisan

politics?

Well, yeah, I mean, you kind of bridge the divide.

You're a Midwestern boy, but you're a city slicker now.

I think, you know, like I visit home, I go back to Minnesota eight to ten times a year,

which is a lot by work a lot there.

But I always see my brothers and sisters all the time.

Even the time, even the times when you don't have time, you got to check in.

And I think it's about checking in and keeping people part of your life.

Keep talking, right?

I mean, yeah, not keep people off.

Keep talking.

And even if you're mad at them or they're mad at you, don't let them run away from

you and don't let them hide.

Okay.

Haraldo, after all the work, you did exposing mental institutions like Willa Brook.

What do you really think about Trump declaring we need to reopen these institutions?

Well, I think that there, as Governor Spitzer knows, there's a confusion in the public

mind between people who are mentally ill, which includes schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress,

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