In the main segment of the show we discuss the dense lore around the Actors’ strike: - The studios’ leaked threats to writers and actors’ homes - ABC News attacks the strike as harming other adjacent businesses - Universal Studios apparent butchery of the trees that shaded the picket line - Misplaced cynicism over striking “millionaire” actors, and much more Also: Tony sits for the flag in front of his grandma at a baseball game and Alex talks about getting denied a raise at Subway and a TPUSA writer attacks the “Karen” slur, arguing that it actually the end of society if her glass doesn’t get refilled on time. Sign up at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult to get the full episode and weekly bonus episodes delivered to your podcast app or browser
Can you believe these actors want more money, Tony?
I can't believe these actors want more money.
They're already rich and famous actors, every single one.
How many yachts do you think David Duchovny owns?
Thirteen, I've heard.
Probably.
They're not all huge, but still, thirteen's too many.
This is used as like a dunk.
All these millionaires, they want even more money.
It's not fair to them.
What about the plumber?
What about the plumber who only makes $60,000 a year?
I saw this guy in the Breitbart comments section that was pretty great.
Let me see if I can pull him up real quick.
I mean, I know for a fact that Larry the cable guy made way more than your actual cable guy.
And that's, that's pretty upsetting.
Yeah, okay, so it's, it's this guy, um, who's like, yeah, uh, maybe they can get a real job or, uh, They make only $60,000 a year.
I was like, started laughing.
I was like, what?
That's like, that's a good, that's a decent wage in America.
First of all, pretty tight.
Second of all, as a union member, I make more than as a union manual laborer.
I make more than that.
Like I make, I make more than most of these actors.
I don't, I don't remember the exact statistic, but something like, uh, Two thirds of actors don't qualify for health insurance, don't like work enough or don't, you know, make enough money to qualify for health insurance.
And yeah, somebody Deanna Pack is explaining that to this guy.
Most people who work in Hollywood work just as much, if not more hours than the average person, and only 1% of the union actors even make $40,000-ish a year.
Don't know if that's true, but she sounds like she knows what she's talking about.
Millions of people are affected indirectly or directly, whether it's crew, catering assistants, and other non-entertainment who indirectly receive revenue because of the success of these industries.
Please educate yourself.
Yeah, and then aerial truck who is the original guy replies because I think he was a fire.
He's a fireman He's a firefighter Isis so what you're saying is the poor actors that are on strike and unwilling to get different job that pays more is selfishly striking While knowingly affecting all those businesses that supports them doing jobs.
They aren't striving Uh, they aren't striking from.
Do I have that correct?
Thanks for the deep lesson on the struggles of the poor and unfortunate souls.
I mean, it does sound poor and unfortunate to be making such, you know, that level of money.
Yeah, it's funny.
It's funny, though, like he's thinking.
So he's saying that these actors are cutting off the nose despite their face.
Like, listen, I know I understand that Netflix hasn't paid you as much as you want, but if there is on Netflix, they can't pay you at all.
Yeah, I don't know if he's going to argue that Netflix is going to go broke.
I think he just wants to, like, teach the actors a lesson.
You know, he just he wants them to, like, starve so much they either quit or, you know, just stop bothering them with their politics or whatever.
But yeah, he says something about, oh, they're selfishly striking while knowing that that's going to affect other workers or whatever.
And this is the line that ABC themselves tried to run this week.
Did you see this, Tony?
No, but that sounds about right.
Yeah, I got to I got to find it real quick.
Yeah, OK.
Strike by Hollywood actors, writers causing collateral damage to small businesses in SoCal.
This is from ABC7.com.
Why would why would a news corporation, ABC?
Yeah.
Report negatively on a strike from like Disney workers and Netflix workers.
I mean, when you do the news, you've agreed to not factor those things.
Like all the politicians, they don't do anything that would benefit them outside of their position as a politician.
The news has to do the news, so this must be accurate.
Yeah, I don't think anywhere in this article, I didn't read through this, I didn't need it to make me that mad, this is by Rob Hayes.
Let me see if I can find the phrase Disney anywhere in this article.
No, no.
Nope, not in here.
Nothing about how Disney owns ABC.
Nothing about that.
Also, if you're trying to whine and complain and say, Well, there's other businesses that are being affected.
You're hurting other people because, you know, by withholding your labor and not running this, you know, machine, this giant fucking machine, we're also like losing money.
We're also losing out.
Yeah.
And it sounds to me like you should be thanking the actors and writers for running the giant fucking machine this whole time and standing with them to show your appreciation.
Like all these complaints about what unions disrupt and what when they strike or when they, you know, demand better treatment or whatever it's.
You're expressing how important what these people do is.
You're telling me exactly what they're worth.
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