When there was only 200-odd million people in America, they would all watch the Academy Awards.

Why?

And happily.

And everyone was thrilled to do it.

And then what happened was they started making these decisions.

You cannot win an Academy Award unless you have 40% LBGTQ, unless you have people, a certain percentage of color, the crew is this.

And so from that, I think it became an easy kind of pincere move.

It just kind of continue closing the door quicker.

It's a pronounced minority of people in the world who have anything approximating the right to free speech.

So the fact that we take it for granted is something like a miracle.

What happens is there becomes the machine that comes into place and that takes advantage of certain situations like this.

That doesn't want to go away because that machine is making money.

When the king dies, chaos breaks out everywhere.

It's like the rise of a hydra.

Something like that seems to be occurring in the West since about 2012.

The system is crumbling.

If this doesn't change, nothing else matters.

This shit has to stop. So I had the opportunity today to sit down in Scottsdale, Arizona with Rob Schneider, and Rob's being what, stand-up comedian, a movie star, an author.

He's got this new book called You Can Do It,

Entitled You Can Do It. So we discussed this book. We discussed, well, to some degree,

the origins of comedy in Hollywood and the collapse of the Hollywood Star System. We talked about

the direction in which entertainment is likely to go in the near future.

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