All right, well, hello, it's Will and you got a bonus episode coming at you today.

It's like another in our ongoing series of strike coverage where I talk about strikes

and interview a union member involved in them.

So without further ado, today of course we were talking about the writer strike at the

WGA and my guest today is Blake Masters.

No, not that Blake Masters.

I can already see your eyes rolling back in your head.

No, this is Blake, just for the virtue of differentiating yourself from the Peter Tiel

Weirdo, could you tell us tell me a little bit about yourself, your experience as a TV

writer and how you've experienced or lived through some of the changes in the industry that

have led to this current strike?

Well, first off, let me say thank you for differentiating me from the robot without a

soul who shares my name.

I would start by saying that television has vastly changed in the last 15-20 years.

The biggest piece of it I would say is essentially the death of network television.

Network television was always the big driver and big main financial engine of everything.

So everything had to conform to that.

So all business was built around the way people were paid, the way things were scheduled.

It was up until the network calendar.

And with the rise of streaming and the death of network television, what it did is open

to space for people to then pay differently and therefore depress salaries.

And that fundamental shift in the way business is done has led to a, and I can go into

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