The Waves: Hollywood is On Strike. Let’s Burn it Down.
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🗓️ 3 August 2023
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, we’re talking the Hollywood strikes. Slate senior supervising producer Daisy Rosario is joined by longtime journalist and author of Burn It Down, Maureen Ryan to unpack the systematic oppression that has taken place behind the scenes of your favorite movies and television shows for decades. They dig into the structures in place to keep women and marginalized voices from getting to the top of the ladder, and how none of these stories are examples of one bad apple. They also explore how the ongoing writers and actors strikes are an inevitable result of years of injustice - and what they need to bargain for to make true change in Hollywood.
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If you liked this episode, check out: How to Survive in Hollywood
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| 0:00.0 | If you're looking for a new podcast, might I recommend our podcast? |
| 0:09.3 | Hi, I'm Gabe Dunn, and I'm Allison Raskin. |
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| 1:05.6 | Welcome to The Waves, Slates podcast about gender, feminism, and today, burning down Hollywood |
| 1:11.2 | and its broken systems. |
| 1:13.6 | Every episode you get a new pair of feminists to talk about the thing that we cannot get |
| 1:17.2 | off of our minds. |
| 1:18.4 | And today, you've got me, Daisy Rosario, senior supervising |
| 1:21.4 | producer of audio here at Slate. |
| 1:24.0 | Later in the show, I'll be joined by Maureen Ryan, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. |
| 1:29.2 | She's a long time entertainment journalist and TV critic whose book Burn It Down, Power |
| 1:33.7 | Complicity and a Call for Change in Hollywood, was released earlier this year. |
| 1:38.7 | Maureen, or Mo, as she likes to be called, has written an in-depth and thorough accounting |
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