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

Okay, from the internet, Jack, how do you combat the strands of racism in the Republican party?

And Jack, you used to be what? Something the Avenger, the Southern Avenger, the Dixie.

There was a controversy about that.

Right. I've had to wrestle with my own past and some things.

You know, this Trump phenomenon was bothered me the most is I think it's true what Jeremy

said earlier. There are people out there who are openly bigots who are hateful and all of the...

I mean, I don't think anybody that says something that's politically incorrect is necessarily that.

As you've noted, but there are a lot of people out there who are straight up hateful.

They don't like minorities, they don't like gay people.

And I think Trump, and I don't think he intentionally did this.

I think he's just being himself has opened the floodgates.

I honestly think he's that intentional. I think he's just being himself.

But I think people who feel that way feel that they can freely express those things in ways that are not good for our society and not good for the country.

I think that's a problem. How do you combat it? You'd be better than that.

I'm a conservative, I'm a libertarian, but I'm positive. I look for the best in individuals. I don't group people together.

I don't say, you know, that's the worst thing you can do to demonize human beings.

Is to group them together, say these people are bad, and not judge them by their individual worth and human dignity.

Well, speech Michael Moore could have given.

Michael, would you consider making a film on the media and its influence on election results?

Somebody should make that film. I don't know if I'm the person to do it.

But I wanted to, at the beginning of the selection season, I was going to secretly film the show, not your show, of course, but other shows.

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