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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Postgame Show: The Creative Controversy

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.732.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Adam Conover is a comedian who's rage on the picket line for the Writers Strike went viral. Now that the actors have joined the writers, Adam speaks to us about the opportunity to restructure how compensation in Hollywood works over the next 50 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network.

0:04.8

This creative controversy, creating controversy, what's happening in Hollywood right now where

0:19.0

the writers and now the actors have joined them in solidarity in something that we haven't

0:23.3

seen since the 60s and they're fighting the CEOs like Bob Iger who's saying they're

0:27.8

real. They don't have realistic expectations for what it is that they want. Adam Conover

0:33.7

was on the picket line and a video went viral. We're going to play some of this sound for

0:39.1

you while he's on the picket line talking about the idea that CEO making about $26 million

0:46.4

a year, returning to five times the bonuses that he used to get while the writers strike

0:54.2

over a lot of stuff that you're seeing that is super unfair. Here is his righteous rage

0:59.2

on the picket line. The CEO of Disney went on TV and said that what

1:03.6

writers and actors are asking for is not realistic because they just don't have enough money

1:08.5

to pay us. But he said this at a billionaire retreat where he was hanging out with Mark Zuckerberg

1:14.7

and David Zazlov that they all flew to on their private jets. And you know what? I don't

1:19.4

think that that's realistic. Here's a dose of reality for you Bob. Writers cannot afford

1:24.4

to pay their mortgages. Actors are not able to make a living in Los Angeles anymore. That

1:28.8

is reality to us not flying around on private jets. And until you accept that reality,

1:34.5

we are going to be out here on the picket lines with holding our labor, depriving you of

1:38.6

your product and you will not make another dollar off of us until you come back to the

1:42.9

table and face reality and negotiate with us as you have refused to do. And until you

1:47.8

do that, there will be no act in and no writing. Adam, thank you for joining us now. You're

1:52.9

smiling at yourself. What are you doing? What are you doing there? I from rage to you're

1:56.6

smiling at your rage? What's happening? He's admiring the bars. You know, there's I am

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