Seth MacFarlane

behind the scenes that went on in this regard is that when you hear originated in a lab, you think, oh, it was cooked up by scientists.

It was cooked up by people as a weapon.

But the average person- Gain of function study.

Exactly, exactly.

But the average person doesn't think that.

They think made in a lab, they think, oh, this was a bioweapon.

Who gives a fuck what they think?

Well, I'm not telling anything.

You don't already know but at this point in time when I

The people who are most likely to dismantle democracy would love nothing more than to hear you.

And look, I'm not gonna comment on something that I haven't researched.

You're too tribal.

That's not it at all.

I'm not going to contradict what you said because I don't know.

I would have to go on my phone after this interview and go, wow, I don't know what Bill was talking about.

I guess I should look into it, which I do all the time.

I'm not stupid enough to say, yes, is that possible?

But we are living in a time where we're caught in this neutral zone between...

the people who would love nothing more than to see the enterprise of the press dismantled completely, gone.

And so I'm a little more forgiving of mistakes than maybe I have been in the past because I don't want to see that happen because I do believe the press is the fourth estate.