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It's about our relationship
with nature in this country.

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And my relationship as a touring
humorist who plays songs on the guitar,

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a piece of a lyric from home on
the range sort of taps in very

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neatly to my sense of whimsy
and my sense of nostalgia.

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I wish every one of my books
was just a cowboy movie,

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and Sam Elliot and I could just
tell it to you over a campfire.

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The one that springs to mind is
this lake my family goes fishing on

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and has done so every year since I
was five. I've missed a few years

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due to acting jobs, but I
do my best to never miss it.

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So that's where we most
regularly don't have a TV

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and really shut off and just engage
in full family time where all you need

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is the lake, the woods,
a boat fishing rods,

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a deck of cards, some beer and a guitar.

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Well, I'm very glad to
have been a proud member

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of SAG aftra and I was
marching and picketing with

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my writers, who are my dear friends,

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and then eventually my
union SAG aft joined them.

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And I'm very grateful. It's been very
hard. I happen to have won the lottery,

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but I spent a lot of years
before Parks and recreation

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relying powerfully on my medical
insurance and on my residuals and all the

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things that we're fighting for.

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So I'm so grateful that it's happening
and that we have the guts and the courage

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and the stamina to last through it.

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I'm so grateful that the writers
were so strong and they achieved such

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a huge landmark deal.
And now I'm grateful that

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Fran Drescher and our whole
gang are equally badass and

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they're not taking any
compromise from the A M P T P.

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I look forward to it being
ended because hopefully,

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I mean, it is infuriating
that once the writer settled,

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all it took was the wealthy
people saying, okay,

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we'll give you a tiny fraction of
our wealth, is what it came down to.

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And so the world was like, couldn't you
have done that in June? You assholes.

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And so we feel the same way. I
want to get everybody back to work,

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especially the people who haven't won
the lottery by being on a TV show I

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have, which.

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Is why I was actually out.

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Picketing on my way here today.

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My go-to karaoke song.

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Is.

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Goodnight. Everybody have a lot
of fun. I'll be on my way. I.