We're back. We're back. He's just distraction. I drew that bra. They know bra. I'm good. How are you? Oh, you seem a little bit moving. Okay, a little bit of easy going casual

Raw after hours. Just taking it easy yet is we're recording an hour later. So I'm basically I'm already on island time, baby. You are. You're wearing a

smoking jacket and and cheetah skin slippers. It's very, very alluring. We were going to talk about sports this week as we normally do. However,

We have a very special distraction episode this week because our guests Adam Conn over hosted the G word on Netflix and Adam ruins everything on HBO Max and the

Factually podcast where we get your podcast more importantly right now. He's also a member of the writer's guild of America West board.

And he's on their negotiated committee. So today we're going to have we're going to talk extensively with Adam about the WGA strike that's going on right now. I'm a member of WGA myself. We're off. You used to be a member of it. You are no longer. So I am also on strike. But it's

Strike top 2023 Adam. Hello. Hello. Welcome. God damn it. I'm so horse from being on the picket line. It's it's totally. Hello. We can we can always do pickups. It's

Okay. My God. What an honor to have Harvey Firestein on our. I've been chanting and cheering so much. And then the the frog comes up in my throat without me expecting it.

But do you voices real, man? I'm that this is a proof of concept right here. You are hanging out in a in a boardroom waiting for the other sides lawyer to come back. You are also

Annoying them outside of their studios, which is good. Where have you been picketing. Can I ask I always like I mostly been picketing in front of Netflix. That's that's the hottest picket in town. Everybody agrees. That's where all the all the young singles want to go. That's it's more on the east side. That's where all of the really angry writers who you know don't have enough money to not just pay their mortgages. They don't have mortgages. They're behind on their rent. They all flock to the Netflix building.

Um, exciting. Do your bosses in Netflix have they looked at the window and looked at you specifically and been like, how could you have are all we done for Adam.

I mean, you know, I pitched the G word in that building and and it went great got a round of applause from the executives and oh my God, we went right to series. It was a terrific.

Oh, I saw the bitch. They didn't like to scare you. And then they did. Well, I could tell you all about why, you know, the way that shows like mine are treated at Netflix.

As one of the reasons that I voted to call the strike, which I could get into. But while we're out there picketing, you can see the people from Netflix, like looking out the window at us down there.

You know, horns are honking. We have tons of solidarity honks from people going by on sunset Boulevard. And so it must be pretty annoying to work in that building right now.

Now, unfortunately, I don't think Ted Sarandos or any of the other people who we actually need to make the decision come down for their ivory towers and bargain with us are in that building.

They're probably, you know, in their mansions zooming in to fire people remotely.

That's how I absolutely.

That is the challenge with any of this stuff. I mean, I feel like that's the thing that I've kept coming back to at this because there's been a rash of like the last few productions that were working in New York have been shut down by picket lines.

And he was earlier this week. They got severance, which was shooting in the Bronx. And there's been a bunch in Brooklyn too. But at some point, it's like, you have to wonder what the people in the Netflix building are doing.

If there's not new shows to make and I understand there's other stuff going on. But if if the pipeline of actual creative activity has stopped, then are they just in their like optimizing photographs of Adam Sandler and waiting for the people that actually make shit to happen to come back to work like.

Yeah, I mean, maybe they're planning. Oh, maybe we can make this, you know, K drama go over in the US or whatever. They probably have some thoughts along those lines. Yeah, I was going to say just to work everything right.

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