Burkhard Bilger
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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You know, which is more appalling?
So that was kind of the point in a way, was to kind of flip all that inside out a bit.
Yeah, I mean, and honestly,
There were cockfights that I almost kind of admired and there were cockfights that I did find appalling.
I mean, admire is the wrong word, but I went to some local small, what they call brush pits, cockpits, but brush pits are small pits in Louisiana.
And you go there at midnight or at one in the morning and you're thinking, because you've been told
by all the anti-cockfighting folks.
These places are dens of iniquity, drinking and drugs and gambling.
And you go there at one in the morning, you think, shit, I'm out of town or I don't know what's gonna happen.
And you walk in and it's a little cage with some bleacher seats around it.
And the first night I went, there were two nursing mothers sitting on the front row with their babies.
They're their kids running around up and down the aisles.
You know, you had whole families.
It was like Friday or Saturday night in the country, and this is what they did, you know?
And yeah, it's bloody, but the chickens are also, at some level, those chickens weren't, you know, you get some bad stuff.
You know, you get chickens that are injected with drugs.
You get, you know, poisons put on their blades.
You get some bad stuff.
But in those cases, it was...
was kind of an old tradition abraham lincoln was a cockfighting referee george washington went to cockfights i don't know honest dave was into it oh yeah they were you know um andrew jackson supposedly had cockfights in the oval office you know in the white house um i don't know if the oval office that i have my period wrong but he you know so it's it's it was an old tradition and then it's and then now it's no longer the cock fits that the cockpits that i
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