Hey, everybody. Welcome to the McCrack podcast. I'm Jared Yitz-Sach. I'm here with my good

buddy, counseling. How are we doing, Fred? We're doing. It's, you know, a day where I'm asking

forgiveness for everybody, so hopefully you'll forgive me for anything I might have done in the past,

known or unknown. And I'm looking forward to being able to eat a little bit tonight.

Yeah, you're fasting, but you're showing up. You're doing the podcast. You're in it to win it. That's what we're off education. If, you know, observing Ramadan, which is what I'm doing right now, 30 days in a row, that's impressive. You know, that is impressive to do that and to be dedicated like that. I don't know how I, I know if I could do that. That's pretty. I can't do the 24 hours before surgery. So, I mean, I, hat's off. Hats off to everybody. Good work. Also, by the way, before we get into our main segments today, Nick, we have to, as we always do on this podcast, show solidarity with the working

people out there. We've got some victories going on. The Writers Guild took the studios

just and demolished them. They waited them out for five months. They came back to the table.

They crawled back begging the

Riders Guild to work with them. We have a deal that has to be approved by the members,

but it looks like the Guild has gotten almost everything that they've wanted, including

new cash considerations, new compensation, and also new considerations when it comes to

artificial intelligence. Also, Nick, the UAW strike has extended. It's now in over 20 states

against GM, Ford, and Stalantis. All I can say is solidarity, solidarity, solidarity.

I don't want to ran on your parade a little bit, but it's not like, you know, these kind of things are short-term three-year deals. I'm talking about the writer's strike. Sure. And it does feel like they scraped and clawed it, just the fact that they were able to kind of get them back the table. We don't even really know what the terms are yet.

I've been trying, I've been doing my back channel, talking to people, and no one was willing

to give up any end of time information. But it did feel like if you read the variety that there

are, you know, some things where they are going to get some good stuff. Now, there was this

interesting thing where there was a requirement to have a certain amount of writers on each show. So instead of paying episodic like they used to, like a certain amount for each episode, they were trying to hire really, really cheap writers in the very beginning of the process to kind of write a bunch of scripts all in a row and then all these well established writer for getting squeezed out.

So I think that they're going to have some movement on that. And certainly the AI thing is just

good for everybody because we don't want to watch product, the content that's written by

AI. Well, and it also sets a precedent. One of the things that has happened in this strike

is that whenever there's labor action.

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