Warning, this podcast contains spoilers for actually nothing this time, but references to a foundation season two airing now on Apple TV Plus.

Hello, my name is Jason Cepciot. And I'm Rosie Knight. And welcome to X-ray Vision, the crooked media podcast where we dive deep into your favorite shows, movies, comics, and pop culture.

In this episode, strike watch, then we're heading to previously on for an SDCC scene report. And a little talk about that barbenheimer box office in the hive mind is an interview with writer producer director, David Eskoyer, and in the nerd out some thoughts on Indiana Jones coming up, strike watch.

Our double strike continues. And some updates here, Dwayne Johnson, who we have been tough on on this podcast has has come up big talked about in the previous episode, how important it is that the most powerful and successful members of the WGA and SAG have been support have been in this fight.

To support, you know, some of the people who are in the lowest rungs of the latter. And here's Dwayne Johnson, who has come through with a historic seven figure donation to the SAG fund per variety during the COVID-19 pandemic, the SAG after foundation work to provide financial leave to many unions, 160,000 members via the foundation's emergency financial assistance program, which will again be used during the strike.

And just in recent days, it has been out that Dwayne made a truly historic donation to the fund.

Yeah, I think like you made a great point when we talked about the strike for the first time, which is like, this is the thing that makes us love comic books.

It's like the people who are most powerful, who have the power, looking after the people who don't.

And in this reporting, there was something really interesting, which I think sums up the power of why a union like this, when it works like this is really, really great, because it was saying that Courtney B. Van, who's the SAG after foundation president and executive director Sid Wilson, actually wrote a letter to the 2700 of the union's highest earning actors being like, look, we need money, like get your rich, give us money.

Like that's exactly how it should be. And I love that Dwayne was the one who stepped up and was like, well, I'm giving seven figures. So who else wants to jump in?

So I'm ready to see more rich people giving money to this, because like you said, this is for the workers who are going to be in a situation where they're not going to make healthcare this year.

The $26,000 that they need to make annually is not going to happen. And that could even be if they were still working, that might have happened anyway with the way residuals are.

So it's really great this is happening. I love to see it.

George R. Martin, our good friend, George R. Martin has waited on the strike, the king in his latest entry on his not a blog blog.

He has weighed in on the strike, calling it quote, the most important of my lifetime. He continues, no one can be certain where we go from here.

But I have a bad feeling that this strike will be long and bitter. It may get as bad as the infamous 1985 strike, though I hope not.

Now, of course, George has been a member of the WGA since the mid 80s.

And he also continues with updates about how's the dragon quote, how's the dragon is shot mostly in London, a little bit in Wales and Spain and various other locations, which is why filming is continue.

The actors are members of the British Union equity, not sag after and though equity strongly supports their American cousins, British law forbids them from staging a sympathy strike.

If they walk, they have no protection for being fired breach of contract or even sued terrible terrible terrible law.

It's really strange too, because England has a history like as George actually says in this blog, one of the major two parties is called the Labor parties,

built on the idea of protecting workers, but that has changed as parties move more centrist.

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