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

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Tell me about that. My producer was just whispering in my ear that you would whisper it into his ear about that 1934 picture in New York of the people rallying for the Nazis.

It's a longstanding concern of the ACA to defend the rights of people that even you hate.

That freedom of speech is for everyone, indivisible, and that's for everyone.

And so the very first thing, and that's very brave of you.

That's the right thing to do. That's true courage.

It's the right thing to do. It's not popular.

It's, it's, it's, it's mean, for instance.

What I tell our folks is that if we don't stand up for the right freedom of speech now for folks that we hate,

then it's going to be a black lives matter and the dreamers and the protesters who care about trans rights are going to be shut down.

But the very first big Nazi case for us was in the 1934 picture you just showed on the show.

Where that was, that was courageous. I mean, the Skokie cases the best known one for us.

But that was easier, right?

Because Skokie, the Nazis were a pathetic little group of individuals and they even had the damn picket in, in, in Chicago.

In Skokie, actually. And, but in 1934, the Nazis were on the ascent.

Right. And they were when you walked down Broadway.

Yeah. And it's a lot like the current context where the rise of white supremacists is on the ascent.

That's be real.

And it's not, these are not just hallucinations by, by folks of color and by, by, by religious minority groups.

But I think it's essentially, it's really important for us to do.

Chelsea Handler, what do you think of the right wing media using your actions to enrage their base?

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