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Lovecraft Country. I thought it was groundbreaking and stunning and Misha Green from

underground. I was like, that pissed me off that, you know, that Harriet Tubman monologue,

Aisha Hines to me was one of the best single episodes I've ever seen one person sit and look into a camera that I've

seen and didn't even get an Emmy. Like, are you kidding me? But, you know, those people in

their awards. And then it didn't get a second season, Lovecraft, right? So that went away to

whatever reason. Well, I mean, but, you know, exactly, right? You know, who knows the,

there's so many other things going on that often are not about the show, right? And that's what I

feel, that's the unfortunate part, right? If Tyler and Byron and these other titans of industry,

as it were, are able to take a show like that, put it on the air, and believe in it and keep it,

then maybe we'll see more of that. But that doesn't seem the way that their business

models are put together either, right? I don't, I'm not speaking for them. I'm just saying.

You are absolutely right. Their business model is predicated upon profit, period.

Right. I was told directly, it's about the profit. For all of them, for them, the profit means I now get to give more opportunities. I'm not here for the art. I'm not here to make it good, per se. I'm here to make money, to make money. And if I can make money putting on an award show, which brings in lots of advertising, which is what I've been fighting for, and this is what I went to court about. And now I'm getting that advertising dollar that allows me to buy media and all these other things. And there's more money, more money, more money. Some people are put here to make a difference. I'm happy about that, by the way. Let me say I'm not disparaging the more money. It's just not art. No, it's not.

Cave men did not paint on walls for money.

Did not.

Cave men painted on walls because they was trying to leave a little roadmap to the ones they were leaving behind because they wanted them to be able to get through and be okay too.

Again, I'm not against the idea of capitalism and money.

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