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I don't know how that happened, but we're back with our panel from Vermont Bernie Sanders.

A Senator?

A host of Show Times, the circus, John Hylman, and actor and gritty and Russell Brand are back with us.

Okay, so here are the questions people wrote in. I guess this is for you because it mentions the Brit Awards.

What does the panel think of the discussion around the Oscars getting rid of gender specific categories like best actor and best actress and how did it work out at the Brit Awards?

As a person who's never won an award, I feel confident in saying that they are vacuous and pointless, a distraction at a time where we need to be coming together around real principles and values.

Unless someone wants to give me an award, in which case I'd like to make it as specific as possible so I could bloody well get it.

But am I wrong at the Brit Awards, which is for music?

I hosted that before, but I'll tell you Bill that I was able to let go of the experience and have never thought about it since.

I feel that it might be fundamentally meaningless. I can't find meaning in it.

I've looked. It used to be best male, best female, and they just cut out the categories and it was one...

The only people who wanted it was four men and Harry Styles.

Yeah, I think.

No, all that, no, women won.

They should just give awards to Harry Styles and that can be an industry.

Okay.

I will watch the world incinerate while Harry Styles dances beautifully.

What is...

What is the likelihood that Congress will abolish daylight savings time?

I read this also today that...

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