108 - Things Get Better - Tom Choi Refresher

Audrey Helps Actors Podcast

Jesse Lumen

Performing Arts, Audreymoore, Losangeles, Business, Actress, Arts, Tv, La, Actor, Careers, Sagaftra, Film, Sag, Actors, Filmbusiness, Aftra, Acting

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

This week Audrey Moore talks with Actor Tom Choi about how to have a lasting career in a business with many ups and downs (as we're currently experiencing).

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0:00.0	Hi, Audrey. This is Vanga and I'm calling it from New York City. I saw you twice this week,
0:07.6	because you're in town. I saw you at the Black Riders Juneteenth Picket and the City Hall rally.
0:14.4	Yes, it is week eight of the Riders' strike and the Riders deserve a fair contract.
0:20.3	A group of us posed in a photo next to the pencil and it was published on Deadline, which is super
0:26.3	exciting. I'm pretty fat and I go to the picket lines each week because there are a great
0:31.2	way to understand what's at stake for our industry, meet riders and other entertainment professionals,
0:36.9	get some exercise and also let off some steam. All are welcomed on at the picket lines and if you're
0:43.9	in Manhattan, I will see you at the picket lines this summer. What do we want? Contract! When we want it
0:51.5	now and if we don't get it, shut it down. Bye!
0:59.7	Hi everybody, it's Audrey Moore with the Audrey Helps Actress Podcast and this is episode number one,
1:04.1	no eight. Feeling great question mark about the state of our business.
1:16.9	Well, today we have a Tom Choi refresher. Now, before you panic about the fact that it's
1:26.6	a refresher, here's why I'm doing this episode. You know, we all need a little pick me up.
1:31.6	A little pick pick pick me up. It's shit is getting real out there. It's getting really real.
1:38.2	Reps are being laid off. Reps that are not being laid off yet are crying because they're worried
1:45.6	they're about to get laid off. Industry is broke. I got a lot of calls, emails, DMs, texts last week,
1:53.6	of people that were filming and, you know, some of them traveled to film only to have their roles
2:00.7	and their episodes or their projects. Cut, canned, no more. So it's really, this is the part where
2:09.0	it really gets heavy, you know, in the beginning it's like, yes, strike! Well, a lot, hit the picket lines
2:14.8	and I want you to know now is the time. So we are this episode is airing a week 10,
2:20.8	week 10 of the writer's strike. The last writer's strike went 14 weeks. So if this was the same as
2:28.7	the last one, we're looking at another month at least. Many people think this will go longer.
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