fix your wardrobe you have to get some green. >> that's right, have a great friday. that's "the ed show" i'm "the ed show" listen to me on sirius radio monday through friday. happy st. patrick's day. let's go do "the rachel maddow show." >> ed, thank you very much. if you are worried how much green wearing tonight when they put your show segments on the web have them photoshop your tie green. >> amazing what we can do. >> have a great weekend. >> you too, ed, thank you. thank you at home for joining this hour. this is what it's like to be in republican governance. not to be a candidate for office but a republican governor in office and responsible for making policy. if you are governor sam brownback of kansas and you governed the way he has governed signing extreme anti-abortion measures in the country last year, with more on the way this year, if you are sam brownback, your fab page is full of

questions like this, "do you have a cross word puzzle book i can have for in between pregnancies? seeing i can't do too much walking around holding this aspirin between my knees." >> governor i need to ask one who are question do you think it's true 100% of regular nancys in the state of kansas were caused by men? if so, do you have a proposal to deal with them? governor, i'm currently four years in perimenopause, what is the best option for my husband to get sex from now on since sex with me would be pointless. and he is, after all, still ripe with untold millions of children that should not go to waste. governor brownback, i have a rash on the back of my hand. please let me know when i can come or and you can look at it and re describe medication for it it's uncomfortable. buzzfeed posted some of the best comments this week. these were some of my favorites,

there are hundreds of others like this. even those, the ones up there still are just the ones the governor's staff hasn't deleted yet but they have been delete as fast as they can. governor brownback is not alone in having a facebook page full of satire/protest. here is bob ultrasound mcdonnell's facebook page. "hi, bob, i wanted to let you know what is going on since you have been concerned about my reproductive organs. it's day two of my period, there is a number i should call? how does forcing women to have ultrasounds create jobs? or this one, mr. mcdonnell, thank you for your deep and abiding interest in the nether regions of america's women. is it safe tie sum your office will be involved in gyn investigations of all women or will you be targeting only those in peak child bearing years? pennsylvania governor tom corbett is dealing with the same treatment, "so proud to have a governor willing to take over my

personal health-related decisions, not all women can be so lucky. this is what it's like to be a republican governor right now when governed the way the governors have governed. governor corbett sending out a blast e-mail, if you're a woman who opposes mandatory ultrasounds, tom corbett has a suggestion for you. you have to chose your eyes. close your eyes? does governor corbett have no shame? does blankety blank have no shame? tom corbett of pennsylvania, the governor seriously did say that thing about closing your eyes, how you should close your eyesif you don't want to look at the screen forcibly positioned in your sight line during a state-mandated medical procedure that he, tom corbett, governor

of pennsylvania says you have to have. he wants to make this law. the forced ultrasound bill that has been kicking around the pennsylvania legislature is one of the most extreme in the country. includes language like that likely mandates trans vaginal ultrasounds in most cases because of the time of pregnancy for most abortions and what the ultrasound has by law to show. the bill forces doctors to position the screen in front of a woman's sight line, while the procedure is being performed, and it requires a print out of the image to be filed away in the woman's medical records even if she doesn't want that. the bill is stalled in pennsylvania in part because the state medical asoesh ya is telling republicans to butt out of the doctor's office. but since it stalled and not like on his desk or anything, he doesn't have to make decisions about it now, tom corbett could avoid talking about this. but no. asked about the bill this week, he just decided he would go for

it. >> i wouldn't change it. as long as it's not obtrusive, but we're still waiting to see. >> not obtrusive? making them watch, does that go too far in your mind? >> make anybody watch? okay, you just have to close your eyes. but as long as it's exterior, not interior. okay? >> ladies, ladies, relax. men at work here. don't mind governor tom corbett's state governor physically probing you against your will and shoving a screen in your face, just close your eyes. there is two things that are important, first thing that he says it's not -- it's external not internal. doesn't know what to do with his hands for that one. it would require trans vaginal ultrasounds. something else is important here. >> with you as long exterior not

interior. >> it is interior. it would require vaginal probe trawl sounds for most women. republicans in kansas -- it's fascinating, we're seeing people talk about ultrasounds, the ultrasound bills as if none of them are trans vaginal ultra sounsd. that is what they tried to say in virginia. republicans tried to say that we're not requiring that. democrats called them on it and the governor weighed in and said you have to change this bill, but the republicans keep explaining they don't know what is in their bills. they're not doctor. they are not ob-gyn's, they tried to get detailed but shows the ignorance of the medical procedures they are mandating, which is the point. republicans in kansas dropped their own twist on the forced ultrasound, a requirement doctors would be directed by the state to employ a doppler hand-held fetal monitor on a patient even if it was against the patient's wishes and doctor's medical judgment. guess what kansas left in their

new anti-abortion bill when they passed it out of committee. they left in a script written by the legislature a doctor has to say to a patient includes saying "abortion is linked to breast cancer" it's not linked to breast cancer. so says the american cancer society and national cancer institute. why would you listen to idiots like that when you can get your cancer information from kansas city republican state representatives instead. they say there is a link. they heard that somewhere. and if and when they pass this bill and sam brownback signs it, in kansas, doctors will be violating the law if they don't read their patients seeking abortions a false medically in at accurate script. the justification for this, state representative joe patton says "we want women to be fully informed." fully meaning including the false information. oh, but wait, there's more.

not only means lying to them about cancer, under law you have to lie to them about cancer. but it also means lying to women in order to trick them into doing something the woman doesn't want to do. this is so strange. this new kansas republican bill would block you from being able to sue your doctor, if your doctor lied to you about your pregnancy. as long as your doctor lied to you about your pregnancy because he or she thought they willing you the truth about your pregnan pregnancy might make you want an abortion. in kansas it's mandatory for the doctor to lie to you about one aspect of your future health and legally protected for your doctor to lie to you about your current pregnancy. if you are a woman and you are pregnant. the government knows best. i don't know why they say republican policy would be so alienating to women this year. wow. it's okay for your doctor to lie

to you bill is picking up popularity, among red states. in oklahoma and in a few other states, anti-abortion legislators have made it legal for your doctor to lie to you provided you are a woman and pregnant. because you can't handle the truth, woman, you have to hand that over to the state government. arizona has an it's okay to lie to women bill that passed the arizona state senate, steaming through the republican-led legislature enroute to governor brewer's desk. also a senate committee approved along party lines, a measure that the liberal blogs are calling the tell your boss why you're on the pill bill. while that kind of sounds like a very liberal bloggy thing to say, it quite accurately describes what the bill does. this has passed the republican-led house in arizona. this blows my mind. the bill would permit employers to ask their employees for proof of medical prescription if the

employee seeks contraceptives for non-reproductive purposes. arizona republicans will make you tell your boss if you're having sex but taking precautions not to get pregnant. see what the boss says about that. it's the law. you have to say. over in virginia, democrats sent my friend governor ultrasound bob mcdonnell a letter asking if now that his state government is forring virginia women to get ultrasounds they don't want and don't need would he please consider not also forcing them to pay for it? governor's office said we're happy forcing this thing on women and forcing women to pay for it at the same time. republicans in the virginia lemg tur also had a chance this week to not force virginia women to pay for the ultrasounds that the republicans are forcing them to get. republicans in the virginia senate also said no. bob mcdonnell and virginia republicans want women to pay for the forced procedures themselves. bob mcdonnell is mad about

democrats suggesting there is something wrong with forcing women to pay for something they don't want that the state is mandating. his office is putting out a statement saying this was partisan and petty, statement ends with this. i hope they are having a good time. you know, who wouldn't be having a good time, governor ultrasound upon learning your governor has not only ordered you to have this medical thing done to you, but ordered you to pay for the privilege. governor mcdonnell's snippiness highlights his temperament and interesting divide among republicans. republicans in states are frankly just fall steam ahead only this stuff. women the take it is going to mandate ultrasounds for you. your doctor is going to lie to you by state order. you have to tell your boss in detail about your sex life. it's the law. you have to. we are cutting off access to all that slutty birth control.

they are doing it in republican states. at the national level and for state level politicians who want to be thought of as guys on the national level, hi, governor mcdonnell, the implications how all this sounds to women may finally be starting to scare them off, a little. the new york times reporting that the anti-contraception bill, the blunt-rubio bill, republicans were fired up a few weeks ago, scott brown would run on in his race for reelection, that the republicans would see sail through the house of representatives which they control, that is dead. for now. republicans desighed not to move on it. it has been kicked up to the leadership and they want a cooling off period. yes, i would imagine they do. analyzing the back pedaling talking points memo brings this reporting, one gop strategist pegged the problem to rick santorum, who has become a national poster boy for right-wing views on women's health. we have definitely failed to

make the contraception fight in an advantage. i think debbie downer being the primary guy out there talking about this is part of why. debbie downer is an adorable nickname for rick santorum but here, come on. you guys may think this is a rick santorum problem but you wish at this point. this is in every red state in the country problem. if rick santorum did not exist, god for bid, you would still have to be trying to explain bob mcdonnell and kansas forcing doctors to lie to women about breast cancer and arizona trying to force you to tell your boss why you're on the pill, or pennsylvania and their forced vaginal probe bill. this is not a rick santorum problem, this is a republican republican problem it might be the republican problem of 2012. joining us is jan schakowski of illinois, great to see you, thank you for being here. >> thank you, rachel. i have a great idea. i think every woman voter should be required to see these 13:00

of what you said before you vote. >> this is why i will never run for office i would be the kind ofity ran-- of tyrannical gover, i will make you watch, that is the law. in terms of what is happening with this in washington, do you think that at the federal level at least, and for state level republicans who have federal ambitions, do you think they are changing their mind about this, they're having second thoughts? >> well, i think they are certainly has been a backlash, i don't know if they're getting e-mails quite as clerer as some of the governors you read from wonderful women writing those clever things, but definitely think that women have been expressing themselves in no uncertain terms that they are not going to accept going back, they're not going to accept these ridiculous restrictions.

imagine the idea of having to tell your boss that did you using birth control not to control birth, but for some acceptable medical condition it's ridiculous. so women see on the horizon at the federal level, too, that this may just be the beginning and we have to stop it right now. and republicans are beginning to get a little scared. >> it is really interesting, to see the divide between republicans in the states and the kind of i think republican awakening that you are hinting at there. certainly that we've seen in terms of republicans backing off these issues in congress, the jan brewers and bob mcdonnells and tom corbetts of the world they are really steaming ahead with this. sam brownback said when asked about this current bill going through the legislature, if he would sign it and he said i haven't read it but i'm sure i will. i'm paraphrasing, i said i would sign anything pro-life that got to my desk.

>> do they have a different calculus on these things? >> for the moment, they do. but you've had on your show and others have some of these wonderful state legislators, women, who are speaking out and i think that what you see happening at the federal level is going to catch up with these governors at the state level as well. the absurdity of some of these proposals and laws now, we have many of them enacted in law. when women have to be subjected to these kinds of non-medical, the suddenly we've got ob-gyn legislators telling doctors what to do. i really do think there will be a backlash at the state level, too, that is going to -- i think unelect so. legislators who have proposed these crazy laws and i think the governors, too, will feel the heat. i can't imagine anything else.

>> i know this morning i was told you were at a protest with planned parenthood supporters outside of mitt romney's campaign stop in rosemont, illinois, whats would that like? that is in my district, we decided to help dpreet the romnro-- greet the romney supporters, we had the president of planned parenthood of illinois and myself, a dozen women holding signs "keep your mitts off our birth control" and lots of media out there with us. just to continue to send the message that women are simply not going to go along with mitt romney who said that he's just going to stop funding -- he would end planned parenthood, get rid of it, those were his words. ju just a flip comment, he will

defun the $75 million,.002% of the federal budget from planned parenthood. >> heading in the illinois primary, it has been strange to see mr. romney try to out flank rick santorum on the right, saying he's too liberal on the issues like reproductive rights and mitt romney wants to be seen as more right wing. what do you think that will do to the illinois vote? the problem for mitt he needs to double down on this, in 2002 he sought the support of planned parenthood, when he was running for governor. so i think he feels like he needs to prove himself by even moving more to the right. it will be very interesting to see, rachel, how this plays out in illinois. we have a somewhat of an upstate down state difference in the voters, but the other thing about illinois and chicagoans, they like authenticity, we're a

straightforward bunch here, i'm not sure if mitt romney with the fakeness he projects will be attractive to the voters here. >> democratic congress woman jan schakowski of illinois, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> not all friday nights are created equal. a candidate for the single most upside down paranoid attack on the president of the united states we have yet seen from the right is coming up. plus the one and only le wis black is our guest for the interview, stay with us. where the cost to both repair your home and replace what's inside are covered. to learn more, visit us today. are you guys okay? yeah. ♪ [ man ] i had a great time. thank you, it was really fun. ♪ [ crash ] i'm going to write down my number, but don't use it.

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the family of the u.s. soldier accused of afghan civilians this weekend has hired and attorney to defend him. >> it's very close-knit very loving family, his wife is an executive, she is an intelligent person, kids are normal, no domestic violence, no critical financial problems. i do know he had a concussive head injury, that often brings on ptsd. i know his two tours in iraq were horrific, and he saw people killed literally standing next to him. >> the army staff sergeant accused in this case has been flown to the united states from kuwait. his name ways made public this evening. but even before the release of his name there was a frenzy of reporting about who he is and

what about him might explain why he might have done. it has been intensely focused on him as an individual. his whereabouts after the crime. he was airlifted out to kuwait. then flew him to united states. his personal history, three deployments to iraq, this was the first to afghanistan. spent 11 years in the army, 38 years old, wife, two children, where he grew up. we have learned about his injuries, his combat record, unnamed military officials are describing what about him specifically on this night specifically might have led to this specific crime. from the perspective of the american public learning about the crime and trying to make sense of it for us is reflected by our media. it has been all about the suspect as an individual. in afghanistan it seems to have been almost exactly the opposite.

in afghanistan, it not about what are the particulars of this one soldier that made it happen. in afghanistan, what has been seen about this crime is not what is important about this one individual, in afghanistan, frankly, they do not even believe that he acted as an individual. >> the story of the village elders is entirely different. they believe it's not possible for one person to do that. in his family, in four rooms people were killed, children and women were killed and then all brought together in one room and then put on fire. that one man cannot do. >> u.s. officials insist it was one man acting alone. in the first reported pieces from the scene of the massacre, villagers who survived described a helicopter and maybe other americans at the scene. reporters talking to those witnesses right after this happened, interpreted that as probably describing americans

who showed up to gate and respond after the incident happened. there was confusion whether this was a lone wolf incident. that tiny smudge has become the whole story. this what is americans are doing here, asha mid karzei, this is the end of the rope. >> it is by all means the end of the rope here. >> end of the rope in. >> the end of the rope. this form of activity, this behavior cannot be tolerated. it's past, past, past the time. >> americans also say this can't be tolerated. since the massacre, karzei said he wants american troops withdrain wit withdrawn to bases and not interacting with civilians until next year, that could be feasible if the united states decided to do it. would put troops in the position

u.s. troops were in iraq in the last year of the conflict when they were still in country but mostly they were packing to leave. still in danger but mostly preparing to go. mostly preparing a logistical exit, a big deal when you have been there with that many people and that much material for a decade. now, anything that hamid karzei says should be taken with a giant grain of salt. president karzei, frankly, makes grand statements and pulls them back, he is seen as somewhat unpredictable and somewhat untrustworthy by americans with whom he negotiates, it's thought as soon as troops do leave afghanistan he may be overthrown, so his loyalties and his interests are complicated. but what is perhaps more important here is not what he thinks or what he says. but what americans feel and what americans are saying starting to say about the war on which we are focused on the individual

alleged perpetrator. we are focused on the soldier, this veteran. we are focused on the human cost of deployment in four combat tours. the human cost of brain injuries, year 11 of combat in afghanistan. accidents in which civilians have been killed have not changed americans views of whether or not this war should be fought and how much more of of it should be fought. but this incident in which civilians were allegedly deliberately killed by an identifiable person who we want to know as much as possible about, may be changing the course of the war forever. jo joining us is paul rieckhoff. let me ask you if anything i said seems wrong or off or you think -- does any of that rub you the wrong way? >> there is a lot in there. >> yeah. >> we have to understand it's a complicated situation, very emotional situation, a terrible situation, and coming at an

incredibly complicated time so what i and a lot of other veterans are encouraging people in the media is take a big deep breath. let's think about this. let's understand the facts, not speculate, jump to stereotypes, we're still unpacking this by the minute. news is coming in. i think it emphasizes a lot of cleavage that exists between the military and population, ex-acknowledge raex-a exaggerates us and the afghan people. this will go on for a while. >> right out of the gate you and i were are very clear that there should not be stereotyping of iraq and afghanistan veterans as if having served in the wars means you are damaged or unstable in some way. were you anticipating that people would do that or do you see people doing that, do you think it's happening in. >> it's happening. the new york daily news here a couple days ago had a headline said "sergeant psycho" an

incident folds in those pre-existing stereo types the country has about people they don't understand. so we're pushing back and saying whoa, we don't know if he had a brain injury, we don't know if he had ptsd, even if he did, that doesn't explain any of this, a lot of rampages happened in other places and you may nef know what happened here. i think we have to understand like the shooting in fort hood or what happened with gab by gifford, we may never know what happened. we have to go in the conversation thinking about that. what do you think about the fact this is getting a lot of peoples's attention, resonating, it's not a good thing, afghan civilians are killed ined inadvertently and we apologize. it's good to have the nation paying attention we're at war does it worry this is the reason why. >> it's about time did it need take this to understand what

traumatic brain injury is or people are going for multiple tours. they are going to school, in jobs and doing well, this is really unleashed a lot of attention around our communicate did you but did it take something like this before people realized how much are people are going through, maybe that is something that can start a bigger conversation. this is not your average person, a very small, maybe only one person of a larger population of 2.3 million people who served in iraq and afghanistan, we have to push back against stereotypes people are jumping into. >> how do you toe the line before advocating for the concerns about pptsd without encouraging stereotyping, how do you make that case? >> you understand it. there is a guy on our staff who stood with the president. bob woodruff has traumatic brain injury, incredible family man, doing great things.

there is not necessarily a cause here. let's understand ptsd, understand ridiculous demands we're putting on our troops and family, and separate the other arguments and break them apart. you do a great job of this. a couple years ago we were calling it forgetastan. let's make sure we don't lump it in one oversimplification for the media. >> paul rieckhoff good to see you. turns out hoping for a less mean spirited society makes you a total jerk. coming up. en i grow up, i'm going to own my own restaurant. i want to be a volunteer firefighter. when i grow up, i want to write a novel. i want to go on a road trip. when i grow up, i'm going to go there. i want to fix up old houses. [ female announcer ] at aarp we believe you're never done growing. i want to fall in love again. [ female announcer ] discover what's next in your life. get this free travel bag when you join

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did you see what happened today? an old quote from president obama's past has resurfaced and could change everything for this year's presidential election. from 1990, barack obama a community organizer in chicago. gave an interview published in a newspaper called "the illinois daily herald" talking about his work and a quote has sent the right wing in all caps omg not lol hysterics, this is the proof they have been searching for four years that barack obama, obviously, hates america. the 22-year-old quote was posted by a blog, but the right wing. look at the headline. face it, he hates you. obama in 1990, we're going to reshape mean-spirit and selfish america. or this one, young obama at harvard, transform mean spirited

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well, yes, but you once said you wanted people to be nicer to each other! seriously? this is what upset about? yes, seriously. actually, even though it's the right wing blog world that is upset the fox newschannel business thing, their business sub channel was trum ppeting th quot quote back in november for why the president lost independent voters. this is the smoking again. asked a question about racial minorities and responds by saying hopefully more and more people will feel their story is part of the larger story how we will reshape america that is less mean-spirit and more generous. that is what the right proves barack obama hates america. if you're thinking that quote maybe reminds you of something else? it may be this famous saying by

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last night in the part of the show we call the interview we were lucky and excited to have oklahoma senator james inhofe that was the interview and then some. tonight we're luck y and excited and probably the exact opposite direction, the one and only lewis black is here, newest comedy rant, "in god we rust" lewis black, very nice to have you here. >> thank you. >> president obama in 1990 said that he wanted to move -- wanted to work toward a world, country that was less mean-spirited,

more generous. the right says that means he hates america. i think it means he wanted a kinder more agagentler america. >> that is a different republican party because we have moved on, there is a new republican party, and they seem to have -- that language doesn't work for them. it's a new republican party. it's -- there is a -- it's like -- i mean, i think of it like if you were in the communist party, toe the line, here what is they think, that is the deal, screw him, that's the deal, you can't -- are you going to use those words, they don't work. whatever words he uses don't work. >> do you think we're at the point some -- i feel like it's not that weird, wouldn't be that much of a joke for a republican candidate to say we need a less gentle meaner country because we need to be because that is what -- >> in a way, when eric cantor,

the one who gets to me. whether cantor said help vermon after the hurricane -- >> oh, yeah. >> -- until we reduce the budget. that isn't the way we work. america works exactly -- you know, we kind of have to remember that. you know, because even if the government forgets it, whatever they do, that when something horrible happens, all these people get in their cars and drive there to help other people. it's astonishing! >> do you feel like there is among the republicans who are trying -- i mean, the republicans don't have a leader for -- there hasn't been anybody since george w. bush who's emerged as the person who would lead the republicans. they had trouble with mccain, and anyway. but isn't there anybody that's the id of the republican party? as you see it, when newt gingrich or rick santorum or one of these guys talks, do you feel like, ah, he's speaking for this

new republican party, he is the one who -- >> there's not -- there's like this -- they're speaking to -- i don't think either of them -- they're speaking to the people that they think really are kind of like the baseline. you know, it kind of started with the tea party and that's the drum beat. so, newt kind of speaks to them, and santorum has always been on that kind of whatever it is he's on, that social issue thing, where you know, we have to toe -- you know, he's not -- you know, he wants a free america, but you'd better do what he says to do. >> yeah. the social conservative thing took a surprising step to the front of the stage. everybody thought this was going to be the economy election. but even before the economy looked for sure like it was getting better, which it kind of looks like now, they started talking about contraception and all the abortion stuff that's going on in the states. i mean, they are running with this stuff like no time since roe versus wade. i don't know why this stuff has come up for them now. the political calculus for why to run with this doesn't make

sense, so it's got to be something else. >> i think it's -- some people have acid flashbacks, and they're having a flashback to what they consider to be a better time before, before everything got out of control, and people, you know, and women became empowered. now we've got -- you know, and what they're doing, i mean, what i don't understand, and i think it's a great thing, is they're literally -- you know, there was the point that women reached, and now what they do is up in the pandora's box again, ha, ha, ha, good luck now. good luck that you're coming up with this stuff now? it's like, we can't go back. it's done with. this is stuff -- i've been through this for the last 40 years of my life. we're not doing it again. i'm not going through this again. >> yeah, so, how does this end, though? i mean, i keep thinking, it's over. they've woken up to fact that they've gone too far, but you open up the paper, it's a new thing every day. in arizona, a new law on its way to the governor that will force you to tell your boss what you're using contraception for,

by state law. >> no. >> this is an idea. >> it's not passed. >> it's passed one house of the legislature in arizona, it's republican controlled, and the other house, it's a republican governor. your boss has the right to know. >> well, it's possible there is a god in heaven and they do pass it, and that building will be struck down. there will be a thunderbolt. you can't do that! and how could -- imagine how many bosses really are going to do that. >> yeah. >> i mean, it's not like -- people don't care. they're fighting a wave that, it's too bad. there's more people kind of like want people to do whatever they want to do, as long as you don't bother them. that's what the country is based on. that's why we left the other neighborhood. that's why there's immigration. it's like, i can't take this anymore, i've got to go someplace where people aren't going to bother me. and now they've started to bother people again! >> you know what else this country's built on? cocktails. i'm doing a cocktail moment at the end of the show today.

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boy, are we overdue for this! "cocktail moment." it's friday, it's st. patrick's day eve. it's almost time for prisons. all great reasons for a cocktail. in this case, with irish whiskey because of st. patrick's things. lewis black is here. we're going to make a cameron's kick. you don't haze whiskey, do you? >> no, not after this week. no, i don't hate whiskey. >> i have a new rule now that i'm old, no spirits on school nights. >> i agree with that. >> because i'm now old and i can't process cocktail information the next morning. >> but imagine there was that time when they just drank that

night and then woke up the next morning and started again. it did work! >> yeah. >> i'm sorry i missed that. >> the three martini lunch thing. like, i understand like the golden age of drinking at work or whatever, but were all of those people 22, or was there just nothing of use done in the afternoon? >> or they just, like, you know, plowed on through it and didn't -- you know, they kind of got through their work really quick. >> plowed being the operative term. okay, so, what this is, cameron's kick, it's an ounce of scotch, in which case we're using a nice pd scotch, ardbeg. you can use whatever you want, depending whether you like that smokey flavor. equal amount of irish whiskey, in this case jamison's, which is delicious, and it's because we're on st. patrick's day. so an ounce each of both kinds of whiskey. then you want a half ounce of lemon juice and a half ounce of a crazy ingredient that's very hard to pronounce but is spelled

o-r-g-e-a-t, orgeat, or something french sounding. anyway, it's almond. >> is it really? >> yeah. it's great, actually. it's really, really good. it's the kind of thing -- you know, french people drink it as soda. they put a glass of ice and dump some stuff in there and soda water on top. anyway, it's almondy. in this case, it's all homemade, so it's gooey. >> ooh, nice. >> oops, i've gone over a little. i have to go back to -- oh, there we go. there we go. and so, that gives it the sweetness, the lemon gives it -- here's skirvy. and then whiskey gives it the reason to live. there aren't very many good scotch cocktails. do you drink scotch on its own? >> i drink scotch on its own. it's not -- it's like, it's not cognac cocktails. it's drinking liquorors that just don't work -- >> that are harder to mix than others. i don't know, if you're into scotch at all -- let's see. >> wow. >> this ism