I cannot believe it quite frankly how far apart we are on so many things how they

plead poverty that they're losing money left and right when giving hundreds of

millions of dollars to their CEOs it is disgusting shame on them they stand on

the wrong side of history at this very moment

okay guys I am really excited about this episode it's an all-star panel of people who I

one have enjoyed talking to very much in other contexts and two have been grounding for me

specifically with respect to talking about the ongoing writer strike that has now been joined

by actors in Hollywood you know I'm 11 years returning to the podcast for the umpteenth time

Josh Olson who not only is himself a writer in the film industry but my favorite podcaster

Josh I miss our West Wing thing days say it was torture but I do miss it it's kind of like the way

some people miss having been in prison you know it's like I want to go out and commit another

crime and start over again I talk about the West Wing thing like and stimming I bring it up in

these random conversations I'm like hey politics in podcasts and what I like and the understanding

of the world and liberals are like this and it comes up so often as I'm trying to have normal

social interactions with people yeah it's it's become a little bit of a problem for me so I have

to find my new fix but in addition to Josh Olson if you watch rising this week then you'll have

met Blake masters not that Blake masters and we're talking about like like masters as a writer

screenwriter and television. You couldn't get that guy you couldn't get the guy you would settle for him

well I'm not a front of fascist robot and I credit him with salt so you know there's a little

difference we did both graduate from Stanford with degrees in econ but I actually decided to be a

human being. We're thankful for it so Blake all right start us off for people who for some

reason might have been living under a rock and not following what's been going on and Hollywood

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