From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

This week we talk with the Hollywood assistant, who, like many, has not only been underpaid,

but has had staplers and markers, even her own shoe thrown at her.

She came to the studio with former assistant Liz Alper, who created the hashtag pay-up Hollywood

and who's heard stories like that

before. When you said stapler in my head, that I kind of went, yeah, that's the number one

item that apparently gets thrown at assistants. We need somebody to design like foam staplers.

Yes. Or just not throw them. Former assistant Liz Alper and current assistant, Joelle, first name only please,

share stories from the trenches and explain why assistants feel now is the time to demand change

for the sake of the assistance themselves and the future of the industry. But first on the news banter,

to binge or not to binge. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my fellow banterer, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter. Hello, Matt.

Hi there. So, we are now, as we have talked about, almost ad nauseum, the streaming services coming onto the field of play.

But let us talk about the different models that are being tried. Netflix came up with the binge.

And I think the binge, when Netflix was by itself in the world, the binge was something that was

buzzy and cool and nobody had seen. It was a phenomenon. Now everybody's getting in the

game, Disney Plus, Warner has HBO Max, et cetera, et cetera. And so there are various approaches to

figuring out what is the best way to go. Disney Plus, for example, is not going to drop, you know,

the Mandalorian, it's Star Wars show, is not dropping it all at once.

It's dropping it one a week. And the idea for that, obviously, is they do not want people like

me, perhaps, or people who are even more avid Star Wars fans to binge the heck out of it and then say,

well, that was cool. And now I don't need to pay seven bucks a month anymore.

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