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What A Day
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🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The Writers Guild of America late Sunday evening announced a tentative agreement with the major studios. The Guild has said that it got most of what it wanted, including increased pay for writers on streaming content, minimum staffing requirements for TV shows, and guarantees from the studios over the use of artificial intelligence. We’re joined by WGA member Vicky Luu to talk about her reaction to the deal and more.
And in headlines: the shooter who killed 23 people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 has been ordered to pay over $5 million to the victims and their families, New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez said he won’t resign after being charged with bribery, and Governors Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis are going head-to-head on the debate stage in November.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, September 26th. I'm Trayvow Anderson. |
| 0:09.2 | And I'm Priyanka Arabandi, and this is what a day where we are just pointing out |
| 0:13.8 | that amid the Taylor Swift rumors, she has not dated another American since back in 2012. |
| 0:19.2 | We ran this by the fact checkers, so don't add us. Also, she probably is on to something there. |
| 0:26.0 | Okay. |
| 0:31.1 | On today's show, New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez says he won't resign after being charged with |
| 0:36.8 | bribery, plus governors Gavin Newsom and Rhonda Santis are inexplicably going head-to-head |
| 0:43.3 | on the debate stage in November. |
| 0:47.2 | But first, we've all seen them over the past few months, the witty picket signs, the digs against |
| 0:52.4 | entertainment executives on social media, and most importantly, the widespread calls since May |
| 0:58.2 | to support striking Hollywood writers. And as we told you on yesterday's show, the writers |
| 1:03.0 | get of America, the union that represents them, finally announced a tentative agreement with |
| 1:07.8 | the major studios. The deal is the result of five days of marathon negotiations between the two |
| 1:13.1 | sides after previous talks deadlocked back in early August. And as of Monday evening, as we |
| 1:18.7 | sat down to record this episode, we still don't have the full details about what's in the agreement, |
| 1:24.2 | though we could learn more as soon as today, when the union is expected to finalize it before |
| 1:29.1 | presenting it to its members. They will ultimately decide whether to accept or reject the terms of |
| 1:35.5 | the three-year contract. The guilt has said that it got most of what it wanted, including increased |
| 1:41.0 | pay for writers on streaming content, minimum staffing requirements for TV shows, and guarantees |
| 1:46.4 | from the studios over the use of artificial intelligence. In the meantime, striking writers from |
| 1:51.5 | LA to New York all seem to breathe a collective sigh of relief because after 146 long days, |
| 1:59.2 | picketing has been officially suspended. And while the strike gave us some great one-liners and |
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