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

Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you, I thank you, I thank you very much.

Thank you for coming out. I know. Thank you. I know you have.

I know you are excited because you probably have Oscar fever. I have Oscar fever.

I have long Oscar fever because really that show it's coming up Sunday. It always makes me think of my mortgage because it seems to look.

It seems to last 30 years and I have a very low interest rate. I don't know if you see I haven't seen a lot of the movie.

A lot of remakes this year. June was a big movie that was a remake and West Side Story.

Not Mara Alley was a remake but very current because it's also the Republican plan for abortion.

He's a kid. But the big, exciting thing about the Oscar is there's a rumor that Zelensky might make an appearance I guess by video.

Wow, boy, I tell you. He thinks Putin is a bloodthirsty maniac. Wait until he sees Twitter on Oscar night.

But he probably won't come. But just in case they booked a Nick Cage because he's also survived a lot of bombs.

I kid Nick. I love Nick.

Here's the thing about the Oscars. Where am I? I love the Cuban on people.

Really?

They think the Oscars, they think everything's a fake. They think the Oscars are not even real. It's a false flag operation.

They said, look at the audience. It's a bunch of paid actors.

This is an interesting week in America. We have the Oscars to honor the best acting.

And then we had the Supreme Court hearings that witnessed the worst. Did you see this shit that went down?

I mean, the Republicans, yes, we're going to have Contenti Brown-Jackson is going to be our first black woman on the Supreme Court.

So that's going to happen. But wow. To go through this to raid.

I mean, I think the Republicans were still mad about Brett Kavanaugh from 2018.

If you took a drink every time they mentioned Brett Kavanaugh, you'd be Brett Kavanaugh.

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