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

Okay, here we are, no which time, with the Texas State Representative is running for the U.S. Senate, James Tala Rico,

and she is a Republican congresswoman from Colorado.

Lauren Bowdo is over here.

All right.

All right.

These are from the people out there for the panel.

Oh, this is, I know this is about you, because you've had a lot of controversy this week about this one, the FCC.

Should the FCC get rid of its equal time rule is the government engaging in cancel culture?

Let's explain this a little.

You went on Stephen Colbert's show. They didn't air it.

Now, I remember this from when I was a kid. The FCC ruled the equal time rule. If a politician

went on a show, you had to give equal time to, this was from 1934 is when it was first written.

It made sense when there were three networks, I guess.

It makes no sense in the age of streaming and TikToks and, I mean, you know, podcasts and everything

else that people can go on.

So what should we do about this?

Well, and there was always an exception for late-night television shows, like the late show.

And now the Trump administration's FCC is going after some of these shows.

And so to me, I think we should use our common sense.

Do we think the president is digging through the minutia of FCC policy

because he's concerned about the equal time rule and how it's applied,

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