Hello and welcome. My name is John Auguste. My name is Drew Markcourt.

And this is a script note sidecast. A short episode about one thing.

When we last spoke Drew, Sag After had just gone out on strike,

and we didn't yet have a read out on where exactly they had gotten in their negotiation.

But we do now, because last night Sag After had put out a 12 page summary as opposed to the two page WGA summary.

So let's talk through that. I also want to talk about some of the ways that Sag is just kind of different than the WGA.

Starting with the fact that you don't use the definite article.

So we talk about the WGA, the DGA.

But you don't say the Sag or the SAG.

My God. Yeah, it's madness. Yeah.

It's like how we say La Brea, but La Sienaica.

There's the same law in front of both words, but we pronounce them differently.

If you were a newcomer to La Sienaica, and you said,

I'm going to La Brea. Everyone say, oh, well, you're not from here.

Yeah, you're not a local. Why? Why do we do this?

I don't know. English is how things work.

But one that we do know clearly is that Sag is roughly 16 times the size of the WGA,

which means that it's organized a little bit differently.

So I thought maybe we could start with that because for folks playing at home,

it's, you need to get a sense of the scale and just how different these two organizations are.

Yeah, I didn't even have much of a sense of the scale.

And there was a great thread on Twitter from Kate Bond that really illuminated for me.

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