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

Thank you. Okay. Here are the questions. Okay. What do you think is the main culprit driving inflation?

Do you think the Biden administration is equipped to solve it?

Stump the ban there. I guess on the first one. We get dinner at Peppies. What do you think is the main culprit driving inflation?

Well, obviously too much money. We've billions of dollars.

Okay. You can't deny that part. And suddenly the all of this supply chain stops.

And at the same time everyone wants to buy. That's extraordinary. It's unprecedented. It's staggering. It gets you 30-year inflation highs.

But on top of that, the Russians invade Ukraine. And China locking down.

And China locking down. What's up with that? We forgot to mention COVID. That's why they're locking down.

Well, that's a lot of this, the spending and the pent up demand. Well, we didn't have to handle COVID that way.

Well, we didn't handle it the way China does. No, I fucking hope not.

I mean, China, what is going on in China? What? I mean, Jay, you are an ambassador to China and the first woman on the moon. What?

So far.

What is going on in China?

To people don't know. I mean, Shanghai is a city of 25 million people. Where you are locked in your apartment.

I mean, they often kill your pets. It's you I've never seen anything like this. And I don't know. I don't know why they think it could possibly work.

You can't control a virus completely like this. You just can't.

I don't think it is working. I think it's working to gene up the public against the government. You think it's working?

Yes. No, the problem is that their draconian lockdowns work really well when the disease is going on.

When the disease was not so transmissible. And now it's much more transmissible and their vaccines don't work.

And they refuse to license American European vaccines. We have them.

And what was it?

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