On this episode of Sunday Uncensored, we're joined by Mike Rowe, host of the popular morning TV show "Rowan & Martin's Law and Order" and host of "Law and Order: After Hours" on Fox News. Mike and I talk about his early days as a law enforcement officer in the early days of the law and order movement, and how he got into the turkey business. We also talk about the DDoS attack that shut down the internet for a few hours, and why we should all be more responsible for ourselves.
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00:00:41.000So real quick, during the main show with Mike, the internet cut out, many of you may have noticed, and that was due to a distributed denial-of-service attack on us, which, I'll just put it simply, was... I want to keep security... I gotta be a little vague, but basically our backups didn't work because of the way the attack happened, and we have additional backups.
00:01:03.000We were able to get the show back on the air.
00:01:04.000So just for people who are wondering what happened, I think it's important to bring that up.
00:01:09.000Now we're getting hit by DDoS. 2022 is going to be fucking crazy. But yes, in all seriousness,
00:01:15.000Mike, should I be flattered? Do you think this happened in any way because of my presence here?
00:01:20.000Actually, a little bit. Yes. Yeah. I mean, look, you're so many people were commenting about how
00:01:26.000you've inspired them to get trade jobs, to be personally responsible that that's.
00:01:31.000That's dangerous to a lot of the collective mentality.
00:01:34.000Not that you're like an overtly political guy, but you certainly inspire a lot of people to be individualist, to be responsible for themselves.
00:01:41.000And that's something I would never apologize for or tiptoe around.
00:01:54.000I think when people are... There's a fine balance between focusing on the self and focusing on the community.
00:02:00.000And I think if you improve yourself, you know, we're only as strong as our weakest link.
00:02:04.000So everybody should be trying their best to improve themselves, being a little bit selfish, but not in a way that's hurting other people, right?
00:02:12.000It's sort of, you know, not to get all Ayn Randian, but I mean... Please do go on!
00:02:28.000I mean, I did a show for Facebook for years called Returning the Favor, and I said, look, I don't want to celebrate Bloody do-gooders through the lens of kindness, period.
00:02:40.000I want to look at people who do good, kind things for selfish reasons.
00:02:45.000Those are the most interesting people that I've met.
00:02:50.000Like, when you're on a plane, you're a part of a community, you're a team of sorts, you're all going to the same place, and you're all sitting in the same basic seat, and you're all there.
00:03:00.000Now, if shit goes off the rails, and those masks drop, The instructions get very very clear and we all know what they are first thing you do you put it on yourself That's right, right and now that's not a selfish thing Because if if you're passed out, you're no good to anyone Right, so it's that it's that thing.
00:03:24.000That's the kind of individual the individualistic thing that I'm talking about take find a way to provide for yourself and First.
00:03:38.000Well, that philosophy is utterly insane.
00:03:40.000History tells a story of people depending on government who essentially become slaves of the government.
00:03:45.000And I think the larger kind of ideology here is that if you can't take care of yourself, you can't take care of anyone else.
00:03:52.000So if we look in society, the most important people, the strongest people are the ones who are the ones that understand that they have a duty, that they need to do
00:04:00.000stuff, and if they don't take care of themselves, everyone else is going to be
00:04:04.000screwed in the community, and their families, and everywhere else. And I
00:04:07.000think there's a deliberate effort to dump people down, make them weaker,
00:04:12.000and make them more dependent on the state almost in every aspect of our
00:04:28.000For most people, the show is published at 10 p.m., if you don't watch it live, and that means the next day is the day that it's the full release, basically.
00:04:44.000I talked to her on the phone about this, and the same day we get hit with a, you know, a swatting incident.
00:04:50.000I don't think you are the principal reason we got DDoS'd, but I certainly think people are like, you know, the people we host, the shows we have, and we had a lot more viewers this time around than we normally do, probably because you're a big name and you inspire a lot of people.
00:05:04.000You're an individualist, and so they took our show off the air.
00:05:09.000Well, I don't know what part they lost, or we lost, but I hope we didn't lose the part where we were talking about the importance of gauging your success, in part anyway, not by your acolytes, but by your enemies.
00:06:30.000In season two I was like, look, we've made our point.
00:06:32.000There's so much more we can do with this show.
00:06:35.000And the network was like, well, we really want you to Take it in a super smart direction.
00:06:42.000So I said what about What about AI and they're like, oh my god, we would love that Are there dirty jobs in AI and I said, of course, they're dirty jobs in in AI now I left my boss's office pretty sure that she thought that she had just sent me out to do a show on artificial intelligence, but of course I was pitching artificial insemination And so three weeks later, I was coaxing the sperm out of a bull called Hunsucker Commando at a ranch somewhere in Texas.
00:08:12.000So basically you take the lube and you...
00:08:16.000This thing, it looks like the Hindenburg, right?
00:08:19.000And you just lube it up and you walk behind the bull and you push it into his rectum all the way to the point where the tip of this thing comes in contact with his prostate.
00:08:33.000And then you go back to the tackle box from Amsterdam and there are two knobs.
00:09:27.000I got a camera shooting underneath the bull toward me, and I'm on the other side of the bull.
00:09:31.000And the cowboy, his name is Steve, he's like, Mike, I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to turn the first knob.
00:09:37.000And when I turn that knob, a small amount of electricity is going to go through that probe, and it's going to stimulate the prostate of Hunsucker Commando.
00:09:45.000And when that happens, he is going to present himself to you, and it will be humbling.
00:09:51.000And sure enough, he turns that knob, and whoom!
00:09:57.000He's like, Mike, when I turn the second knob, that's going to send another bolt of electricity into that prostate, and that bull is going to express himself.
00:10:08.000And I would be grateful if you would manipulate that cup in a most efficacious fashion because what's going to come out of the business end of that bowl is what I like to call white gold and I don't want you spilling any.
00:10:22.000And so my camera guy's laughing and I'm laughing, I'm like, you gotta be kidding.
00:10:25.000So I got the cup, we'll just use this glass of whiskey, and I grab his joint, right, and I pull it over and I got it lined up and man, he turns that knob and it is Jimmy Crackcorn and I don't care.
00:10:41.000It is just, I mean, Filled up the cup.
00:11:28.000But they don't pixelate the vulva and the vagina of all the other cows because I take all his sperm and I use it to artificially inseminate the cows.
00:11:39.000So I had this big conversation about what to blur and what not to blur and you know we're gonna blur the we're gonna pixelate the penises but we're good with the vaginas it's just crazy conversations but we put it on the air and the ratings went bananas.
00:11:55.000And so the whole second season became what I call the period of the pixelated penises.
00:12:02.000Because everywhere I went, every barnyard, there was some animal.
00:12:07.000I mean it was ostriches, it was skunks, it was anything that could be artificially inseminated.
00:12:18.000It was raiding and that was before dirty jobs had become like this broader love letter to skilled labor.
00:12:24.000At that moment in time it was basically a German porno.
00:12:29.000But it all kind of culminated for me at Oakdale Farms and this was I mean we had done horses where by the way you got to wear like a bicycle helmet you know because it's very I mean you're holding on to an artificial vagina like which is a like a hot water bottle with a baby bottle screwed into the end that collects and this animal comes into the you know to the breeding stall and there's a horse in heat and it jumps up on a pommel horse it's basically looking at the horse in heat
00:13:05.000So the horse is fixated on the thing and you're holding the artificial vagina and you guide its member into the vagina and you hang on for dear life.
00:13:13.000And this thing will lift you off your feet.
00:13:23.000Okay, most people in the United States, they don't know where their food comes from.
00:13:27.000And the idea that this is going on every day, with pigs, with horses, with cows, bulls, I mean, there is no food chain as we understand it without AI, without artificial insemination.
00:13:43.000Which, by the way, goes all the way back to Charles Bakewell, 1700s.
00:13:46.000I mean, this has been around for Fascinating discipline.
00:13:53.000It was the turkeys that I really wasn't comfortable talking about for a very long time.
00:13:58.000Because you think you see it all, but until you coax, and it is coaxing, until you coax the sperm out of a tom turkey, you really just don't... I don't think you've experienced the world in all of its wonder.
00:14:37.000But when it comes to having to live on that farm, there's a lot of duties that people don't see that are very eye-opening.
00:14:45.000What I love about chickens is that they're smart enough not to drink water with shit in it, but they're not smart enough not to shit in the water.
00:15:13.000But from what I've heard explained to me by some farmers is that, specifically chickens, they don't have control of the asshole and that's why it just comes out without them controlling it.
00:15:42.000I gotta tell you, amazingly cute when we hatched the baby chicks and they're babies and then one of them shits and then turns around and looks at it and then nips it and then spazzes like That was a mistake!
00:15:58.000Well, none of us have these skills, but I think we didn't sex the chicks, but we did have Blackstar chicks, which is Rhode Island, and you're familiar with those?
00:16:33.000Well, of the 300 some odd species of chickens out there that are popular in this country, most of them can't be sexed or determined visually.
00:16:44.000Some of it's a, they call it a wing differential, and that's nice, but mostly you have to peer inside of their assholes.
00:16:53.000And if you can see that tiny, tiny, tiny little bump, then that's a cockerel.
00:17:25.000What's not so amazing is that there's really no use for the cockerels.
00:17:29.000I mean, you keep a couple, I guess, for roosters, but by and large, they all go through a giant meat grinder.
00:17:36.000To get just a little bit Alex Jones, just for a second there.
00:17:39.000There's also a lot of animals being genetically modified in a way where their genotypes are altered.
00:17:45.000Have you experienced any of that or have any kind of strong opinions on that?
00:17:48.000Because there's also a train of thought showing how a lot of the animals are not the same animals as they were before.
00:17:54.000And there are new breeds of animals that are being made because of factory farming.
00:17:58.000Look, I'm a big, you'll hear me talk a lot about unintended consequences, and I do not know what the unintended consequences of that are going to be, but they're going to be something.
00:18:21.000I guess, I don't know why, it's easier, or what?
00:18:23.000Well, when we talk about the, like the turkeys, for instance, that whole AI program came into existence because we were feeding them grain with so much steroid in it that their chest just puffed up and they couldn't get close enough to mate.
00:18:41.000And so, you know, you're growing these things for meat, obviously, and that's a good thing.
00:18:46.000But no, the AI program at Oakdale Farms was just, I mean, You walk into a barn, and there are 500 of these things, and they're like an audience.
00:18:59.000Like, if you look at the turkeys and go, how's it going?
00:19:02.000They'll all go, lalalala, at the same time.
00:19:05.000So we immediately established this strange, you know, rapport.
00:19:09.000And then the guys bring them to you, you know, and you sit there, and they put them between your legs upside down, and you squeeze your thighs together, and now you've got an upside down turkey between your thighs, and you're looking at its butthole, which is, as you said earlier, it's a cloaca, and it's just a fancy term for the hole in the bird where both the sex organs reside as well as the digestive tract.
00:20:03.000And you got the turkey between your legs and you give it a squeeze so you don't want to drop it on its head and You know you ask the guys a question and all the other turkeys hear you and they answer So it's super weird right super impossibly weird soundtrack going on as a guy you've never met says I need you to rub its rectum until it ejaculates And so, you know, I know what all those words mean.
00:20:29.000And my cameramen are, like, around me.
00:20:43.000But the deal is, you rub the sphincter, the butthole, whatever you want to call it, and you're not really sure what you're touching, but if you do it right, the thing will ejaculate.
00:20:55.000And when it ejaculates, it will fill the butthole with this thick, creamy spunk.
00:21:03.000And now, remember you got this baby jar in your right hand with two straws in it.
00:21:09.000So what you do is, you've got to keep your thighs, right?
00:21:12.000Because now you've got an upside down turkey with a rectum full of jizz.
00:21:17.000And so you've got to get the jizz into the bottle.
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00:23:52.000Do they inject it into the ass of the females?
00:23:54.000Well, ultimately, but what you need to do in the interest of efficiencies is fill that bottle.
00:24:01.000So you basically sit there with the bottle in your right hand, sucking the sperm out of the rectums of turkeys as the bottle slowly fills and the men you're working with bring you a new bird.
00:24:11.000Inverted between your legs, close your thighs, rub, rub, rub, and then you get a puddle of stuff.
00:24:17.000I gotta say real quick, I kind of feel like there's a very simple motorized mechanism that you could attach to the straw to press a button and have it suck instead of put it in your mouth.
00:24:24.000I could build it for you, to be honest.
00:24:59.000I don't even know what kind of show that would be if people were like... I don't think there's porn of people eating turkey jizz, you know what I mean?
00:25:07.000After tonight, though, get ready for some shit.
00:25:09.000People are going to be like, yeah, what else were we talking about earlier?
00:25:57.000But I guess, you know, national divorce is what people are hoping for, that things kind of just fall apart and we separate.
00:26:03.000But I've been talking about Civil War for some time.
00:26:06.000We actually didn't get into it in the main segment, but there was a guy who went to Florida to a Trump rally, to a January 6th rally for some guy who was in prison, brought a pipe bomb with him full of nails.
00:26:21.000And so, you know a couple years ago I just I was noticing all the political escalations and we had this Princeton professor say we're in a cold civil war.
00:26:29.000Then you get the hundred plus days of writing over in 2020.
00:26:33.000Then you get, obviously, the 2020 election, the contention around that.
00:27:45.000And even if you don't consume a lot of politics or are into this stuff, historically, between the Black Plague and the Spanish Flu, there was 57 other related pandemic kind of events, global sickness kind of events.
00:27:58.000Only four out of those 57 occasions did not result in a revolt or a large-scale protest.
00:28:05.000I don't know if that's Rutkowski's trap, but... So, did you figure out that number?
00:28:09.000Newsweek did a very good article about this, talking about the likelihood of more civil conflict.
00:28:16.000Yeah, so this is actually what Luke was reading when the cops popped open the door.
00:28:19.000So, even if it's not between the conservatives and the liberals, I think the prospects of a civil war, especially with our financial circumstances, especially with our cultural, political circumstances, especially with the pandemic, I think the likelihood of that happening is very high.
00:28:38.000You're talking about North and South or East and West?
00:28:40.000People get it when we look at revolts.
00:28:43.000And again, people always have this notion that the Civil War is going to be like the American Civil War.
00:28:48.000There's been many other civil wars throughout human history that have been between urban areas, civil areas, different political ideologies, different landscapes, different, you know, religions.
00:28:58.000So there's many ways that this is play out.
00:29:46.000If you look at the Spanish Civil War, it was urban versus rural.
00:29:49.000The cities were, you know, one way, the rural areas were another, and then the rural areas took over and the country became fascist for, you know, 70 years or whatever.
00:29:57.000So right now, I think with the vaccine mandates and the mask mandates and the lockdowns, we're seeing a mass exodus from New York, California, and Illinois into different states, namely Texas and Florida.
00:30:08.000So we've had ideological polarization for the past decade, and now it's becoming geographical polarization.
00:30:14.000Bill Maher said he didn't think a civil war could happen because the Mason-Dixon line would go through Nana's Kitchen, implying that, you know, you fight with your grandmother and that's the cultural differences.
00:30:23.000But now we're actually seeing Florida, Saying outright to Joe Biden, we're not going to abide by your request for mandates.
00:30:29.000California saying we won't follow federal laws per immigration.
00:30:32.000New York just voted to allow non-citizens to vote.
00:31:02.000So what ends up happening, in my opinion, we saw in 2020, John Podesta said if Donald Trump wins, the West Coast should secede from the Union.
00:31:12.000He wanted to encourage them to do that.
00:31:14.000We're looking at a Republican red wave.
00:31:17.000I mean, things are so intense that one of the stories we actually didn't get to is that a North Carolina group is trying to disqualify Madison Cawthorn from being able to be a member of Congress.
00:31:26.000They're trying to get rid of Marjorie Taylor Greene, they want to get rid of Matt Gaetz, and they're trying to disqualify Trump.
00:31:31.000They can't win an electoral race, so they're going for legal disqualifications.
00:31:36.000Of course, red states won't stand for that.
00:31:39.000It seems like the only outcome is going to be blue states declaring sovereignty and red states doing it.
00:31:46.000States have already declared sovereignty in the past to assert their rights under the Constitution.
00:31:51.000But eventually, when you have a bunch of states saying, we're Second Amendment sanctuaries, we won't abide by federal law, you get blue states saying, we're immigration sanctuaries, we won't abide by federal law.
00:32:02.000So I can understand what might happen if things really crapped the bed that badly.
00:32:05.000whether or not people are going to shoot each other. It's an issue of can the
00:32:07.000federal government withstand a lack of confidence from every state. So I can
00:32:11.000understand what might happen if things really crap the bed that badly. There
00:32:16.000there would be real unrest. Whether or not the country divides into anything
00:32:22.000that resembles a historical civil war.
00:32:28.000Let me ask you, what about we had 120 days of mass rioting in every major city, even small towns, where left-wing extremists were firebombing buildings, smashing out windows.
00:32:57.000These small towns, their windows were all smashed out.
00:32:59.000People were putting up signs saying, please spare our store.
00:33:03.000So Michael Tracy's a journalist and he actually drove Uh, through America and went to all these small places you never heard of and left-wing extremists went around just smashing up and damaging basically everything across the board.
00:33:13.000Well, look, this is, like what I said before, the stuff that's out of my lane is out of my lane.
00:33:20.000You can go to a site that has compiled lots of evidence of police acting badly, and you can look at clip after clip after clip, and if you spend a few hours doing it, a reasonable person would conclude that we've got ourselves a major systemic problem.
00:33:40.000But even that, even looking at a few hours of that, you're still talking about a tiny fraction of a percent.
00:33:46.000You know, there's a whole elephant that you haven't touched, right?
00:33:51.000Now, I don't know what the proportionality is, but I get it.
00:33:57.000You know, I think it probably is further reaching than a lot of people realize, but I still don't know on a percentage basis what you're really talking about.
00:34:05.000I think you're absolutely right about the police thing and we bring that up a lot.
00:34:09.000You get someone who's 10 years old in 2010 and they're being inundated with clickbait police brutality videos.
00:34:14.000Now they're 20 believing cops are going around hunting down black people, which isn't true.
00:34:18.000So that could be a bias in our capacity because we're very tuned into this stuff.
00:34:23.000But when I look at the crisis over the past two years, the response to it, the anger.
00:34:29.000You had a guy shot and killed in Portland, Aaron Danielson.
00:34:33.000A Black Lives Matter guy, tattoo on his neck, walked up to him in the middle of the street for no reason, put two bullets in his chest.
00:34:39.000You've got, you know, you had January 6th, right?
00:34:44.000You actually had people breaking into the Capitol.
00:35:58.000And if they say, I have the power to issue a criminal complaint, which they've already done against Steve Bannon and other members of the previous administration.
00:36:06.000They've issued criminal subpoenas, criminal complaints against former members of the previous administration.
00:36:13.000You got Mark Meadows, the former chief of staff, is now facing a criminal warrant for refusing to comply with members of Congress and what they're investigating.
00:36:23.000If this continues, and I don't see any reason why it would stop, it results in them trying to arrest a previous president, which they've already tried to do through New York.
00:36:31.000So the big question arises, this is what Matt Taibbi said.
00:37:21.000So this is what I suppose I'm worried about right now is the way they're framing January 6th and trying to disqualify politicians.
00:37:27.000What happens when the DOJ says, we're going to arrest Marjorie Taylor Greene because she aided January 6th rioters the day before by giving them a tour?
00:37:37.000I don't know if she actually did, but they say this.
00:37:39.000Then you're going to have one cop who's a fan of hers and says it's bullshit.
00:37:51.000I mean, look, I don't think any of us know, but I think I see a difference between the notion of a civil war and the, wrong word, but solution of a national divorce.
00:38:04.000I've been hearing a lot of people talk about that.
00:38:06.000And I didn't hear the interview, but is Marjorie, does she favor that?
00:39:15.000A war, whatever that is, whatever it looks like, feels like, or sounds like, the idea that the country could amicably say, okay, look, we're red, we're going here, or we're not going anywhere, we're just going to stay here.
00:39:28.000We're going to be red, you're going to be blue, and so forth and so on, and then all of a sudden, there are no nukes in the blue states?
00:41:55.000Yeah, that's all convoluted, but my point is there was a confusion about and around the issue of slavery that had to do with the fundamental definition of property versus personhood.
00:42:45.000And of course the answer is no, we cannot.
00:42:47.000So, in this world, and by the way, the arguments for both of those things really lined up in an interesting way.
00:42:54.000You can take almost any big abortion controversial argument today and cross out Cross out abortion and write in slavery and imagine having that same exact conversation in 1861.
00:43:06.000I actually proposed this in a recent episode that abortion would be the catalyst for the second civil war.
00:43:16.000They've already said, numerous left-wing publications, that the Supreme Court, after hearing oral arguments on the Mississippi abortion ban, will overturn Roe v. Wade in June, assuming that happens.
00:43:28.000Twelve states have what's called trigger laws, which instantly ban abortion.
00:43:33.000And there are several more that are preparing legislation to that effect.
00:43:38.000That means in November, if there's a Republican sweep, Regardless of what Republicans say about states' rights, they say, oh, abortion should be up to the states, right?
00:43:48.000I'd be willing to bet that if Republicans do win, you will immediately hear about a bill proposed for a federal abortion ban because they control the Senate and the House.
00:43:58.0002024 comes around and you get a Donald Trump or a Ron DeSantis and they say the first thing I'm going to do when I'm elected is I'm going to sign the federal abortion ban.
00:44:33.000Do you think there are 10 people in this country that would arm themselves and drive into California to forcefully shut down an abortion clinic?
00:45:57.000Obviously, there's no upside for me going much further than to say that if you can't determine, like really collectively determine, what it is we're talking about, what the subject is, if you can't figure out the difference between property and personhood and agree collectively, then yeah, you're going to have a problem sooner or later.
00:46:22.000So let me ask you, if a baby was born and the doctor took that baby into another room and then said in front of you, I am now going to kill this baby, would you stop that doctor?
00:46:58.000She was proposing an abortion legislation that would allow abortion up to the point of birth.
00:47:05.000So a judge actually asked her, so if the woman is dilating and the baby is breaching, you could abort the baby.
00:47:10.000And she says, the law makes no distinction.
00:47:12.000The abortion up until the point of birth, you know, that point.
00:47:17.000In a radio interview, Governor Northam said, well, the baby would be delivered, made comfortable, then we would decide on what to do with it.
00:47:28.000Now of course the mainstream media says it never happened, he never said it, he was speaking about something else.
00:47:33.000Northam said he meant if it was a gross deformity or the baby couldn't survive.
00:47:38.000But therein lies the next question is if there was a deformed baby and the doctor said me and the mother have decided, me and the mother, we're going to end this baby's life, would you intervene to save that baby?
00:47:50.000And I think most people would say yes.
00:48:18.000But even abortion up to the point of birth, I mean, it's just getting to the point where it doesn't matter what side you're on, it's getting to the point where... We're going to have to settle on terms.
00:48:32.000And part of the reason I think the country went to war Once upon a time was that we couldn't.
00:48:40.000Look, we didn't talk about this in the main show and I kind of wish we would have because the rhetoric and the language that surrounds everything, especially the COVID stuff, but also this stuff, you know, it's the first to go and it's the front line of the real heated conversations.
00:48:57.000It's the thing that leads to unfriending, right?
00:49:01.000And this whole notion of taking the language and redefining key terms right in front of us, I mean, like in real time, it's pretty amazing that Miriam, I think, I think I confirmed this, I don't know, but Miriam Webster, a couple weeks ago, Officially redefined anti-vaxxer to include those who oppose mandates.
00:50:04.000Whenever a growing economic power is about to supplant the dominant power, war breaks out.
00:50:09.000Or I should say, typically, out of, I think, 16 historical stories, historical references, there's 12 moments of Thucydides' Trap happening.
00:50:16.000Great wars break out using the most powerful weapons of the day.
00:50:20.000Many people believe that we're headed towards that with China.
00:50:23.000So I referenced Luke's statement I called Rikowsky's Trap, that in what, you said 57 pandemics?
00:50:30.000There were only six where there was not civil unrest or civil upheaval?
00:50:34.000Yes, this is according to the Bach New University, and they had two professors that came out.
00:50:41.000Fifty-seven of the global sicknesses and pandemics between the Black Death and the Spanish Flu between the 1300s and 1918, only four of them did not result in some kind of revolt or large-scale protest.
00:50:53.000Sounds like it's feasible, but maybe I'm wrong.
00:50:58.000Well, you're coupling it with economic depravity.
00:51:01.000We're on the road to the US dollar going to zero right now.
00:51:11.000Well, I don't know what's going to happen, and sorry for taking everybody from a funny story about whacking off a bull to the apocalypse, but Mike, it's been an absolute pleasure having you on the show.
00:51:19.000Listen man, I don't think the leap is as colossal as you suggest.
00:51:24.000And look, if there's a way to stay sane in this endless shitshow, I hope there's something to be learned from the impossible weirdness of coaxing the sperm.
00:51:38.000From a turkey and getting it in a jar.
00:51:43.000The things that go on in barns behind closed doors might not be so different than the sausage getting made behind the closed doors of the Capitol.
00:51:53.000There's something for you, Ian, to ruminate on.
00:52:14.000I grew up in Baltimore, so to drive down 70 and to come back to this part of the world and to sit in this weirdly lit room again with the swords and the guitars and the books and the guns, I've had a very strange time and I appreciate the Pappy Van Winkle as well.