Hello and welcome, my name is John August, my name is Drew Markort, and this is a script

notes sidecast, a short episode about one thing.

Last night, the WJ sent out an email to its members, it was short, it read.

The AMPTP through Carol Lombardini reached out to the WGA today and requested a meeting

this Friday to discuss negotiations.

We'll be back in communication with you sometime after the meeting with further information.

As we've said before, be wary of rumors, when there's important news to share, you'll

hear it directly from us.

So Carol Lombardini asked for meeting this Friday, does that mean negotiations are back

on?

What does it mean?

This is one of the situations where it means exactly what it says that there will be

a meeting on Friday, and there won't be any further information until sometime after

that.

Okay.

And the email says to be wary of rumors, which makes sense.

You see stuff in the trades and you don't know where this is coming from.

Exactly.

You don't know what the purpose of some anonymous source might be, is it wishful thinking

or does it have some other agenda you just don't know.

So you were at Netflix this morning, what was the vibe of this?

The vibe was good, but it normal, like not known with popping champagne corks.

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