meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

The Writers Strikes Will Continue Until the Industry Collapses

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

lotuseaters.com

Politics, News, Daily News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Callum and Harry discuss the Writers Strike and its spread to the video games industry.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

So Hollywood is still striking at the moment and I for one think that this is a very good thing because Hollywood not only tries to push

0:06.1

Some pretty deranged and awful morals on everybody through the messaging that you find in their films

0:11.2

But the films themselves as propaganda pieces are also just terrible

0:16.2

and have been for quite a while at this point.

0:18.2

Do we feel like the world is better than they're on strike?

0:21.2

Yeah, when's the last time you actually cared about a film that's coming out from Hollywood anyway?

0:26.2

And now, if last time we saw a massive Hollywood movie coming out that you know has just been paused.

0:31.5

I mean every single one of them. Yeah sure sure but it seems like there's a bit of a

0:34.1

drought which is nice. Yeah yeah that's the thing is we've had a nice buffer period where

0:37.9

none of them have been coming out. People have chosen to get freaked out about

0:41.3

Star Field instead of talking about the latest Disney Star Wars product or Disney Marvel product and I don't have to hear about all of these things.

0:48.0

That's a really good thing. But then also,

0:51.0

video game industry, the writers and actors that perform for them might also go on strike soon.

0:57.2

So everything we were complaining of that, Christ.

0:59.1

Yeah, everything we were complaining about.

1:01.5

These things might actually all just crumble and collapse

1:04.8

under their own weight and go away and I've won and I'm in complete support of this so

1:10.7

recently Josh did a premium book club talking about Ted Kaczynski's industrial society and its future.

1:17.0

I've not read it, but I'm aware that he wasn't a particularly big fan of the industrial society and living in it there are bits I can you know I can

1:26.9

take and also bits I can leave and the bits that I can leave are the bits that we're

1:31.7

talking about right now.

1:32.8

So let's go to this first article.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from lotuseaters.com, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of lotuseaters.com and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.