Exactly! And the only people
who would get lost in the divorce is a place like Austin. They
would have to pay the price because they’re in Texas and they
are a blue state city in a red state.
Somebody always gets hurt
when the parents break up…
Politics has always been the
background of what you’re
doing. Were you interested in
politics growing up? Did your
family discuss politics in the
house?
Yeah, we were kind of political.
We definitely read a lot. My relatives would talk about politics.
They’d all sit there and smoke
and drink and philosophize. But
it was said in a very cynical kind
of way.
As someone generally de-
scribed as an Irish-American,
were Irish politics discussed?
Oh yeah, we all knew that the
IRA was a non-terrorist group
and everybody else was a terrorist! (laughs) The thing about being Irish… I feel like part of being
Irish is that you should be cynical.
The worst thing you can be is
sincere on one side or the other
completely. I feel like anyone
that is a true believer in anything
100 percent is the ultimate fool
to Irish people.
Before you created this show,
what did you think about the
Constitution?
I didn’t like the language, it was
boring to me, and I was just
turned off by the whole culture
of the Constitutional Convention. I couldn’t understand how
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