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After a week on the picket line, John and Drew meet up to highlight listeners they’ve met, which productions have been shut down, what to expect from the upcoming DGA negotiations, and what non-WGA members can do to support striking writers.

We then answer questions to help listeners navigate the strike rules. Are writers are allowed to submit to labs and fellowships? Are we supposed to boycott struck companies? And how does the strike affect your favorite weekly podcast?

Links:

Inevitable Foundation
Entertainment Community Fund (formerly The Actors Fund)
The Duffer Brothers announce Stranger Things production is paused on Twitter
‘Writers On Set’ by George R.R. Martin
DGA Is United, Prepared and Ready to Fight for Our Future by Lesli Linka Glatter for Variety
Summary of Negotiations: WGA proposals and AMPTP responses
2023 WGA Strike Rules
Strike Rules FAQ
Picket Schedules and Locations
Find more about the 2023 WGA negotiations here at WGAContract2023.org
John on Twitter, Instagram and Mastodon
Scriptnotes is produced by Drew Marquardt

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome my name is John August my name is Drew Mark or and this is a script notes
0:05.7	Sidecast a short episode about one thing we are now one week into the WJ strike and it feels like a good time to assess where we are
0:13.1	Drew it's been a week. Oh my god. It's only been a week. It's only been a week
0:16.6	It feels like the longest week imaginable. I blame all the walking yeah a lot of walking a lot of walking in circles
0:22.4	That's a you are over at Raleigh. So across from Paramount right? I was at Raleigh
0:26.5	I was there for almost four hours great. I got 15,000 steps fantastic. Well done
0:31.2	Thank you. Your legs are jello a little bit jello today
0:34.0	But it was great everyone was so fun and nice and supportive and people came by with
0:39.4	Popsicles and someone brought us cookies from craft services. It was a really good atmosphere
0:44.6	Yeah, I was at Raleigh in the morning for a while checking on sort of what was happening there because there's a
0:49.4	Production there that would be great if that were to shut down and then in the afternoon
0:52.8	I went over to Culver Studios which is home to Amazon
0:55.4	I wanted to be there because inevitable foundation we've talked about them on the podcast before they do work help
1:01.8	Promote disabled writers in the industry. So I got to talk with some of the writers there folks who use wheelchairs
1:07.5	Or deaf or blind or have other disabilities. That was great. Good to see them
1:11.6	But I also got to catch up with two folks that scripted no solicitors might actually remember from before so if you've listened to all the
1:18.6	episodes you'll know who we're talking about the first was a writer who's three-page challenge here at an episode 187
1:27.0	Reminds who you are my name's Casey Scott
1:30.9	Got to meet John and Craig. God. How long ago was it six years probably? Yeah, that's my best guess six years
1:38.0	When you guys reviewed kind of like critiqued my feature length script. This is working. Yeah, which was a pleasure
1:44.2	You know like getting feedback from you Craig and Franklin. It was awesome
1:47.9	So now I'm living in LA. I've worked on three shows two seasons of physical and apple tv plus
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