What If Momentum Doesn’t Mean Security? with Eliot Glazer

Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

Ana Marie Cox, Open Mike Eagle, and Andrew Steven

Society & Culture, Business, Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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TV writer and performer Eliot Glazer joins us to talk about what happens when you’ve done everything right—and still find yourself scrambling. We unpack how the writers’ and actors’ strikes cracked open long-buried conversations about financial anxiety, class disparity, the invisible middle class of Hollywood, and the emotional cost of staying relevant in an industry that keeps changing the rules. Get more at patreon.com/pastdue Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Harry.
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1:04.5	What happens when you've built a career, written for hit shows, made a name for yourself,
1:07.1	and the financial anxiety still never really goes away?
1:12.1	It was so cathartic during the strike to actually talk out loud about this stuff.
1:20.0	So wonderful. Such a huge boon to my own confidence and my ability to feel less crazy, quite honestly.
1:27.4	This week, we're talking to Elliot Glazer, comedian, writer, performer, about the myth of momentum in the TV industry and how the writer's
1:28.6	strike cracked open a conversation so many of us had been avoiding.
1:32.4	During the strike, I felt like I was vulnerable with other writers and creatives for the first
1:37.3	time ever about process.
1:40.5	What happens when your industry forgets about craft and how are AI, social media, and survival jobs reshaping what it even means to be a working artist?
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