 i should make my suggestions and offer my criticisms privately through back channels to the powers that be but as i've recently explained i think i i don't know any of the powers that be i have no contacts i have no friends in high places i don't know anyone i'm not connected i've been invited to the dinner parties and and and the lunches and schmooze sessions with famous conservative media people and politicians and funders and so on i've gotten those invitations but i've never gone to any of them i i simply do my show i make my movies