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Real Time with Bill Maher

Overtime – Episode #609: B.J. Novak, Catherine Rampell, Noah Rothman

Real Time with Bill Maher

HBO Podcasts

News

4.115.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Bill Maher and his guests answer viewer questions after the show. (Originally aired 08/19/22) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:07.0

That's Bill? That's a great crowd we get now.

0:11.0

Okay, here we are with our questions. This is for you, Katherine.

0:16.0

You recently went on a tour of an IRS office in Texas. Is that true?

0:20.0

Yes.

0:21.0

All right, next question. No.

0:23.0

What was the most surprising... Oh, Texas, look, with what a connection.

0:27.0

You just had a movie about Texas, you went on a tour.

0:31.0

What was the most surprising thing you saw?

0:34.0

Do you think the inflation reduction ex investments in the IRS were remedy?

0:38.0

First of all, why did you go on a tour of the IRS?

0:41.0

Because I had heard for years.

0:43.0

Fun day.

0:44.0

It was wild. I am telling you, it was wild.

0:48.0

It was like going on the weirdest, willy-wanker tour.

0:52.0

Because like this place is usually locked down.

0:55.0

Everybody knows about the IRS, obviously, but they don't let people in there.

0:59.0

They don't like them in Texas.

1:01.0

No, they don't. There was a lot of security.

1:04.0

So I had heard all these stories about how old their software is.

1:08.0

And I had been hearing these anecdotes about how crazy it was,

1:12.0

like, you know, that they don't scan in your tax return.

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