0:00 thank you [Music] have any of you guys either seen a miracle on on uh 34th Street Matilda no and no do you know who Mara Wilson is yeah the little girl Matilda three numbers so far remember her super cute yeah what happened to her that's her right here for any child it's not that bad well it's not that bad oh but it is bad but just but it's bad yeah that's Matilda right um yeah Matilda yeah Mara Wilson she's 35 now whoa um an interesting uh reason why I'm bringing her up is that this ties into the rider strike and everything that's happened Okay so you would think a person with massive movies like that kind of like Macaulay
0:50 Culkin like you have movies that will sell forever because not only are they holiday flicks but they're also like classics there's also Miss Doubtfire remember you just got into it right now oh really he loves Matilda oh the new Matilda the original one yeah right this is whack yes you um you would think like the Royal you think the royalties from like movies like that would be pretty substantial and they used to be depending on your contract I heard they took advantage of like child stars yeah well no they're actually because of the contracts back then you would make a lot of money royalties but while keeping those same contracts and how times have changed and most movies are streamed oh the trick the trick is that Hollywood kept those contracts and did not adjust to how streaming works so now you're like it's
1:40 not playing on TV you're making almost NADA now she makes uh since like streaming became a thing she makes so little that she got dropped from sags health insurance in which you need to make at least 26k a year to hold holy so sad yeah and she's like yeah I don't she goes I know I don't act that much but still like it should at least break that you know what I mean yeah as it used to yeah uh so one big thing about the of the rider strike is that they did not adjust for the current day climbing I see these are consumed yeah um the main thing being streaming and then the other detail being uh they want to raise the bottom uh earner so like in the guild right you have the bottom people that are
2:30 um that they make the minimum amount they want to just raise that for them so that they get an actual livable wage it's not like their day rate whatever yeah because a lot of people that have been making um that have been writing content for uh or even being head writers for massive shows are like literally in the red for their own personal finances and they're not making anything um and then the shows are wildly successful why did the SAG guys join what happened there because I know in supporters okay so it was originally the writers and they could come they couldn't come in with a conclusion and well all the students were also going to just wait them out because they knew that the writers were just gonna like lose money burn into the red and then have to like accept a weaker deal exactly one of the I guess the third feature of the writer's Guild requests in the details of the of the contract
3:21 that they're trying to like fight over and this I think is the hardest one it's the um limiting the use of AI yeah and that's where they they don't want the studios to eliminate their jobs by using Ai and I think that one's the hardest because technically they're still allowed to use AI to write the ████ they're turning in yeah but the studios aren't allowed to use AI to replace them it's happening that's hard man and everything's getting automated it's like McDonald's has a ton of check-in kiosks it's hard to like it's hard to impose that on the studio to be like you guys can't use it so that one's a little iffy but the other things are completely understandable because it's like I want to write the s█████ script like it's not fair like robots doing it for free you know what Snoop Dogg was saying this about the music industry too he was
4:11 talking about how like back in the day you would have like somebody bought an album and it cost as much this much percentage was negotiated it'll go to the bottle but nowadays you can get like a billion streams on like a streaming yeah but it's not like that artist has like a million dollars in their pocket from you because it didn't like where's the ████ money and now labels can use Ai and just keep producing more Snoop Dogg tracks and Snoop Dogg gets paid zero for them if they own the likeness the character if they own the lyrics they could just make remixes over and over yeah I can't wait till Tupac come back yeah it's it's one of those things too where um the some some uh Executives from some Studios have actually said straight up um we're just gonna keep this thing going until these writers lose their homes or just that's some ████
5:01 screwed ████ dude that's ████ crazy they can afford it yeah they can afford it and writers can't afford that they will they will bleed out quick because like writers don't get paid that much like and the accessibility to jobs is tough too it wasn't like Baba biker yeah Bob iger's like it's use of like well we're still barely recovering from covid and stuff like we can't even afford all that ████ usually when Industries tighten up like that it's because they are strapped and they're desperate it's rarely rare like that when you're in a point of abundance because then when you have money to when there's money to go around they're actually taking more risks so on the top end um if they're not threatened for survival they're green lighting a thousand projects but even when digitally like
5:53 before covet and all that right like a lot of jobs were going out of Hollywood old media was struggling a lot of mid-tier budget movies weren't getting greenlit because the traditional way wasn't working so I think like in general Hollywood's been suffering then covet happened lockdown happened no shoots were going on they were producing less and I'm like yeah sure it's still billions of dollars right but now we're talking like maybe last like a couple billion rather than 100 billion you know what I mean like I don't know what but the money's still going somewhere so like that the all those like the Matilda movie right it was they're still getting the same place but Matilda's not getting the money exactly it's going to the studio so there's oh yeah the plays still happen it's just the money is getting channeled somewhere else you're saying like the streaming money like
6:44 Netflix or whatever they're licensing or Spotify or whatever like home alone is getting coming in Home Alone is getting watched the same amount but Macaulay Culkin's not getting paid right that's the difference and that's what the writers are fighting for they're like we just want the fairness that we were experiencing before this change and we want this to be adjusted for the new lifestyle of how things are consumed I'm wondering if if it's dollar for dollar the same though so for example like let's say a TV station license your your your home alone to play right and then they get higher ad Revenue because like like let's say more man because like that's what I'm saying is I don't know right so like if if you're if you're streaming ████ and the contracts are way lower then that means what's going to the studio is way lower which means that then maybe you're gonna make sense rather than dollars on the stream so
7:36 like I don't really know the math behind it but I do know like traditional route like the way that they have it on print Super Bowl commercials all that they pay ████ tons of money versus digital they don't I think everything all across the board people just make less money generally so like except for the studios because I think that's the biggest thing where it's like yeah publicly traded companies you can look at the balance sheet right so if you're Matilda let's say you shoot a Disney movie you keep getting less and less money and the Disney share keeps going up it's like where is the money going it's like um and it's very like uh direct it's like you can just look at the numbers like uh like like I look at a lot of smack her stuff with commercials and anyone who's a commercial actor will tell you that you don't make as much nowadays so yeah
8:26 they used to get residual contracts yeah even even when you do get reserved it's just lesser and and like with uh when it comes to streaming what they're asking for is an adjustment of any kind but they purposely leave the Antiquated papers the same exact way because it benefits them and that's the part that they're like really fighting about and then there are they making the same or more because I think that's where the catch is like if the studios are prospering like a ████ and they're just using covet as an excuse then it's like yeah there's so much more money that they made that they're not sharing I mean yeah there is um it's hard to say that it's dollar for dollar because it probably isn't because you know it's not like if people were buying Matilda on DVD for like 17 each it's not the same as if you pay 17 for a Netflix subscription and you
9:16 didn't watch it at all yeah like it's it's just on there as a option right but you're not paying you know when you buy them they're actually just as expensive yeah when you buy them on like Amazon on our iTunes it's still like 20 bucks or 30 bucks right all right but they do it so as if it's like a physical thing but it's not even physical yeah and then there were no costs for them they didn't have to print the DVD they didn't have to put overheads like way less and you can't resell yeah there's a lot of like different details that they they want to get looked at but so far they've met up and they've walked away with no agreement wow and uh Riders are gonna get ████ they are gonna get ████ yeah like like Netflix right think of all the movies and TV shows they put out I think the model with the TV shows like Ozark they'll put out a whole season it gets watched in like three days probably yeah
10:06 and then you're just left with like all right what's next and I think they just keep cranking out all this stuff also where's the money go now that sag is has joined the strike anything live that like a live show yeah it's done wow so like theater no no no like like Saturday Night Live oh continue they can't just like keep going or like James Corden he's out like they're all just like stopping dude everyone's ████ because those are people that are writing to the week they're like they're like I'm writing for so this is the time to be on YouTube yeah you're right there Friday show Thursday show or whatever yeah which which brings me to the question because South Park's like that they ride on Monday for like it works insane but would they strike if they're the writers and the actors of their own business what do you mean South Park like they're the writers in the their voices can they
10:58 not make any shows they're not the animators well if they're in the guild if you want it yeah so everyone stops work together if you're in the guild yeah if you're not then I mean no one you're in the union but you also own the studio so that you pay yourself and then you strike against yourself yeah how does that work because you're not people that get points right like like Tom Cruise is in mission impossible as an actor but he's also a producer yeah yeah so you're almost you work for yourself so how does that work I think I guess he's not the studio yeah yeah because then Comedy Central and whoever like Viacom or whoever owns that then South Park they just own the IP and the and they're producing South Park but they're not the studio I mean the only thing that it really says I guess like when it comes to cases like that I'm sure it's super nuanced and very very unique to that
11:48 person yeah but overall like going against what the union has said they're doing will just just get you either it says disciplinary actions which you could be kicked out of the Union which that's not good if you've got a bunch of residuals coming your way that are now blocked yeah because a lot of the big Talent they are the studio now too I think like Brad Pitt who has like Plan B Productions or like Medea yeah like like uh Tyler Perry Will Ferrell is like what like Gary Sanchez or something so they're almost like they set up their own to be the business yeah but if you're also actor and producer credit then like is it Mark Wahlberg building one in Vegas he's trying to build Hollywood but he has his own production company too but he's trying to build an in the studio also he's trying to build the industry also any of these Studios that you're thinking of including South Park or or even Mark Wahlberg's they
12:39 still have to partner with other students like Universal or whatever distribution there's gonna be like all this like that's why you see like 10 intros when you watch a movie it's never just like one Studio it's always in conjunction with someone else so that also is gonna be complicated to to navigate that's interesting the crazy thing is that uh now that all these actors can't work who can we get on JK news like they could just come in oh baby yeah it's YouTube it's not what he said I don't think it violates sag it doesn't for sure if we were Union you guys would be ████ if we were Union if you guys were Union we would JK wouldn't be existing yeah well you guys could keep striking
13:32 I ain't gonna strike me and Bart will still do the show you guys have done that well we'll strike with you guys be like Joel bar pay better and I'll tell myself I will try I will try and then the company will just shut down dude it is pretty crazy to think that all these actors and writers like they're all just not doing anything I need these guys to get back to work bro oh yeah also you know what you know what they also said this means that it's gonna be another Resurgence if not like the Revival of reality TV because it's non-scripted oh yeah that's the pivot the TLC is gonna be the best ████ show channel in the whole world and then you can't have a host isn't the TLC have all those reality
14:24 shows like 90 Day Fiance yeah but you talk about the boot band no but like all those shows still have a host yeah yeah Fear Factor had a bunch of people that were non-union but you still had Joe Rogan yeah America the Most Wanted guy yeah and he talks about the crimes but he still have that guy no but like 90 days fiance that would be good 95 gypsy wedding okay ████ Killers dude all those kind of shows this could be the Renaissance Era of reality TV what's that down syndrome love one there's a Down syndrome loved one yeah there is a love on a spectrum love on the Spectrum bro Banger of a show honestly they need to bring that show back or that was autism huh yeah yeah okay and then there's man there's gonna be so many the fat one my my 7 000 pound life yeah that one's really good quarters Porter Storage Wars oh I love
15:17 Storage Wars do you try to guess how much everything costs didn't someone just get like a ████ crazy payout on the most recent show we want to watch baby we're going to want to see you rack up the bridge gonna be some good stuff coming out but also the saddest part of why I bring up Mara Wilson is the fact that people that you love that invested their time in their Heyday that thought they didn't need to work as hard now have to work again foreign
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