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The Bitchuation Room

Gig-ifying Hollywood with Hari Kondabolu & Paris Marx (Ep 190)

The Bitchuation Room

TYT Network

News, News Commentary, Government, Comedy

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Actors join writers on the picketline as the SAG-AFTRA begins! These monkeys won't put on a tutu and dance for executives any longer, not without massive change in the entertainment industry. But those execs are openly admitting their strategy is to starve artists into submission. Comedian (and actor!) Hari Kondabolu and tech writer Paris Marx joins to talk about it. Plus, RFK Jr.'s ridiculous racist claims about Covid-19 and a top tier edition of The Bitchuation Room's favorite award show, The Cringy's, complete with Barbie freakouts and Marjorie Greene's video ho debut. Featuring: Hari Kondabolu, Comedian/Actor https://harikondabolu.com/ Paris Marx, Tech Writer https://twitter.com/parismarx https://techwontsave.us/ The Bitchuation Room Streams LIVE every TUESDAY and FRIDAY at 1/4pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifio Support The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: http://www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and watchback privileges Tip the show via Venmo: @TBR-LIVE Cash-App: @TBRLIVE Music by Nick Stargu Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

So the tech companies enter, they bring in the streaming model, they have all this money behind them from the tech investors in Wall Street, and then that forces the rest of the industry to remake itself around this model that the tech industry is pushing.

0:13.0

Well, hello everyone.

0:19.0

Well, hello everyone.

0:21.0

Welcome to the Bituation Room Podcast Live. My name is Francesca Fiorentini. I'm your host. It's so good to have you here. I hope you're keeping cool. I hope you are making friends with people with pools and never letting go

0:38.1

never let that person go ever you do everything for them now. You're like you fold their laundry. You know what I'm saying? That's what I've been trying to do, but like in a non-stockey way. It's very difficult. It's a hard line to ride. We have such a good show for you today.

0:58.4

We're probably not going to get to the news that Trump once again is going to be indicted but like

1:06.0

God it's so boring at this point you know like give him COVID again

1:10.1

But we are going to get into what is going on with the actor strike joining the writers so SAG

1:14.9

After on strike and we'll talk about your second favorite Fran. And then we are also going to talk about

1:22.1

you know RF RFK Junior, floating just a little light,

1:28.6

I don't know, like, you know, just a little light like medical racism, but but but not but yes but kind of but I don't know what did anyone was were people listening shit?

1:42.6

So we'll talk about what RFK Jr said recently about COVID-19.

1:46.7

And we are going to have Paris Marks join us for a discussion about AI.

1:55.0

Can they replace actors?

1:56.8

How are studios trying to do that?

1:59.0

But of course, it's been a while since we had Paris on the show,

2:01.1

so we'll talk about Elon Musk what's going on with

2:04.2

Twitter will threads save us and also why was Congress so hard on the

2:09.8

Tik-Toc CEO suddenly they can grill people in tech who knew. I'm so very excited to have

2:15.3

him on a little bit later and then finally we have a very fun final segment bringing

2:22.4

back one of my favorite segments, which is The Cringies, the award for the

2:26.8

Cringiest clip of the week.

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