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

All right, here we are in overtime with the bestselling author and humorist who starts his 40-plus city tour on March 30th across the U.S. David Sedaris.

And a former Democratic senator from Montana who co-host the podcast, Grounded, John Tester, and

a CNN political contributor and co-host of the view, Alyssa Farah Griffin. Okay. So these are

the questions that the people want to know. John Tester, I don't know why this is just for you.

It says, are you concerned about bird flu like the rest of us who don't care about bird flu?

And the Trump administration's ability to respond to another epidemic.

Well, yes.

Yes and yes.

Yeah, I mean, look, I mean, I think that we should learn something from COVID, and we should treat these things seriously in the world we live in today with people moving around.

And as a farmer, right, around animals and stuff, all the diseases come from animals.

Yeah.

And it's because of the way we treat them.

The bird flu, there's no doubt about it. It it's because of the way we treat them. The bird flu.

Badly.

There's no doubt about it.

It's a concentration of livestock in small areas, in this case, chickens.

Did you ever try to, like, do anything about that?

Like, I mean, I'm a Pete of board member, so I'm a little biased here.

You into that?

I'm totally into that.

I'm totally into not torturing animals.

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