If you're listening to this broadcast, budget or not, because sounds like movie budgets may be taking a step back in the future and we're going to talk

about it. So welcome everybody to TRB. That's right. It's the resistance broadcast. I'm John.

Thank you so much for joining us on this Monday. We're in the middle of August. We are, James,

we are nine days away from Osoka, which is pretty wild.

It's just, yeah, absolutely wild to think about.

And just for anyone who may, for whatever reason,

if you decided to not check out our last episode,

first of all, how dare you?

I'm kidding.

But second of all, we did make an announcement that we are going to cover Asoka.

But please do check out our, you know, I made a long statement on that episode that really paints where we stand.

We obviously fully stand with the artists, crew members, creators, and everybody involved on the union side of things as they, you know, aim to level the playing field and and write some wrongs and get beyond antiquated contracts as things are evolving and escalating in this streaming world with residuals and AI. And so a lot of a lot at stake for the future of art.

And but go check out our statement on that.

And we'll continue to to remind people where we stand on that stuff.

But James, nine days away from that show, Asoka.

And we have a lot to talk about here.

We are going to talk a bit about, you know, movie budgets.

Because that's, you know, also coming off the heels of what Bob Eager said about the future of movie productions for Disney and stuff like that.

But more importantly than that, how are you doing, buddy?

I'm doing pretty good. We, you know, it's funny. I was editing last week's episode and we had this big soccer talk at the beginning of it.

And I was like, we're still in League's Cup and then we lost.

Like, so before the episode came out, we had already lost.

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