“I used to own - my father had a ranch. We used to hire 50 to 60 wet backs to pick tomatoes,” Young said in the interview. “You know it takes two people to pick the same tomatoes now. It’s all done by machine.”
During a high school assembly in 1994, Young was answering questions about cutting federal funding for the arts that he said had funded “photographs of people doing offensive things,” and “things that are absolutely ridiculous.” When asked for an example of such “ridiculous” and “offensive things,” Young quickly replied, “Buttfucking.”