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Mark Simone on W-O-R.

Well, hey, Alan Zwebel, one of the great writers, producers, comedians in the world today, is website,

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do you uh good so uh hey this writer's strike what are you hearing you're a big guy in that uh world

well as big as i am i think i know as much as

you do and vice versa it's um there's no news there's really no news there was a couple of

uh meetings that happened over the last couple of weeks. They went nowhere. They broke off again.

And at the moment, it looks like an incredible stalemate.

Now, there may be some talks that I don't know about.

There may be some progress made.

But I do know that the writers are dug in.

And we're going to basically stay at this point until there's a contract that, you know, that, well, it's agreeable to us.

Now, this is something that happens every time there's a new technology.

Like years ago, the DVDs came out out and nobody was getting royalties on them.

And so obviously this one is what, about AI and streaming and all that?

Well, it's about AI and it's very much about the streaming services, okay, that don't pay any residuals.

And, you know, you're absolutely right, Mark.

Any time that there was any kind of advancement, it came by way of a strike.

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