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Do you love Hollywood?

This is a question that is very serious, quite frankly.

I used to love Hollywood. I grew up in Southern California, and Hollywood was a big deal in my youth. We'd go and watch the stars arrive

at the Oscars and all that kind of stuff. And, you know, every kid in Southern California wanted to be

an actor, wanted to be in Hollywood. I don't know if that's still true.

Hollywood's a very different place than it was in its quote unquote golden era. We know

it's left of center, but is it genuinely? I think it is genuinely left of center. What I mean by

that is, are people just hiding behind it? You know, are they really conservatives in Hollywood?

Do they exist?

And they just speak out of the other side of their mouth in order to stay employed?

It's an interesting question.

And we're seeing examples of it all over the place.

But we're also seeing examples of films with sort of atypical Hollywood values, like Top Gun Maverick and like Jesus

Revolution, making tons of money. So why won't the studios follow suit? Don't they want to make

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