The Kristian Harloff Show - STRIKE UPDATE! The studios take first meeting with Writers in 3 months!

Episode Date: August 3, 2023

Join the website here! http://www.thekristianharloff.com The Writers Strike has been going on for the last 3 months and the studios are FINALLY sitting down to the negotiating table with them. Is this the beginning of the end of the strike? Or is it another bump in the road if demands cannot be met? Roxy had ANOTHER bad date and we get chapter 4 of the neighbor. This and more on today's episode of The Big Thing with Kristian Harloff and Roxy Striar. #WGA #strike #hollywood #actors #neighbors #dating 

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And that's all you're getting with this strike still going on, man, because I don't know about you guys. I know a lot of people just to strike updates. I guess the one thing we can talk about is they finally have the writers are going to be having a negotiation with the studio. So that's pretty big news. But that's really, that's the gist. The other stuff that you want to hear about, the Wonder Woman stuff, all that. We covered that yesterday with Chris Carr,

so you can go and check that out. But what's funny is, man, and I don't know if Roxy knows that she's going to be excited. I took a poll of the shows that are the can't miss episodes of Big Thing. And they were really, all really close, but there was one particular winner, and that was this one man with me and Roxy. She didn't know that, but I just told her.

What one? This one. This, me and you. The whole thing. Out of all five episodes that I put out in it, now there's five episodes a week. That's right. People like your stories, and we're going to get another one of those stories today. So if you're brand new to the channel and you've never been here before,

do me a favor, hit that button, trying to get to 100,000. We're at now 86,000. 86, that's what you guys did. You guys did that. So thank you for all 86,000 of you. Thanks for joining us here. Go to Apple Podcast, Spotify. We're getting up there.

in the charts of Spotify. The numbers are going up there. So please, please, please head on over there, join. And let's get into it. It's me and Roxy. It's a big thing. Come on. What's up, everybody? Big thing Thursday. Roxie Stryer is here. What are you drinking? Oh, the orange cream. It's so good, bubbly. The orange cream cycle. It's so good. Can I tell you two things that seem contradictory to each other, but they're both true at the same time? Sure. Number one, I don't give a hoot about what people think about me. Number two, it's so nice to be liked.

Oh, I see what you're saying. Like, I genuinely received so much hate for so many years, and I have thick skin and was like, I don't care. It's nice to be number one. But it's so nice to be liked. Like, when people actually like, oh, rocks, you really grew on me. I'm like, I can't deny it. It feels better.

Well, you think? It does. And I know that, not that I'm a. wrestler, but you know, they talk about being a face versus being a heel. Like, to be hated, it does take a special kind of thick skin, but it's never as nice as being liked. Of course. And rooted for.

Of course. Well, look, and I was, I did that and because I also got the results that I thought I was going to get where it wasn't like such a dominant thing. It was, and it was a testament to how good everybody on the show has been. So what was the whole thing? The poll was just like out of all the episodes, we just added a fifth episode of a big thing

for the time being, it's on Tuesdays that Riley and myself talking about the UAPs, right? Which you'll probably have to come on. Which is the highest viewed one so far, right? Those do the best. Those do pretty good so far. Out of the ones that have been on, I mean, even the UAP stuff that we covered on Big Ten with you and I did. People are excited.

Yep. No, that's not how it goes. That's why. You did that and people called you out. Yeah. That sounds so ridiculous. You think that sounds good? Yep.

It does. I think it sounds really good. Do you really think that? It sounds really good. I might be able to get it to the crux of the problem of the dates. I think it sounds really good. I think you're mistaken. Everybody thinks it sounds good.

I don't think anyone thinks that. Everybody said in the comments, wow, I agree. Who's everybody? One person? No, it was all of them. Yes, I remember that back in the Collider days. It was Roxy's M.O. Everybody's saying this.

No, okay. Everybody's saying. That's so not true. Do you know what you're talking about? Yes. I gave you credit because you said, how many people was everybody? Not about me. It wasn't about me.

It was about somebody else. Somebody said everybody. Yes, all the time. You don't know who? Macuga? Yeah, totally. And you said that, and I was like, I give you credit because you're right. Sometimes when it's five people, it feels like everybody.

Okay. I'm not an everybody sayer. All right. Yeah, because people do that all the time. People do do that all the time. They say, go through the comments and, like, it'll be overwhelming positivity, and then there's three negative comments. Oh, everybody said that was terrible.

Everybody. I'll say things like, I got a ton of heat. That's what I'll say. I won't say everybody gave me. I'll say I got a ton of heat. Even as five people. No. No?

Well, if it was five of six people. Right. Well, then that's a ton. But to me, a ton of heat means a ton. Okay. And I got a ton of heat on that show. Back in the day, yes. Not this one.

No. This one, they love you. And number one, number one ranked that I think people really... Yep. You got to stop because you're going to go down. You're going to lose that ranking really quick. Rating in rocks. Relax.

Yeah, relax. No, but I think that it's the stories. It's the dating stories. I'm very open with y'all. But I love the story going on with the neighbor, and that's like, that's what there's for now. I mean, because Brett's not here. There's limited stuff.

When's he back? I think he said next week. So people don't know one of the main reasons, one of the struggles right now, understandably, with some of the people on the show, with Roxy and Koi and some other people as well, they don't want to talk about things because they're not sure,

because SAG hasn't been exactly very clear on what to talk about, what not talk about. Roxy doesn't consider herself a critic, and she's not. So she doesn't know she falls in that category, and so she wants to be respectful on what she's talking about. But I also don't consider myself an influencer. But that one, by default, you are.

Okay, but am I by default more an influencer than a critic? I think so. Huh. Yeah. But I go to critic screenings, and I don't go to influencer events. But you don't do, but you're not doing, that's not the same, though. Influencer.

No, I don't. I don't have a, I don't feel one way or the other. I just think it's kind of equal that I'm neither. The definition of it is too is that if you're talking about, even if you're not paid for something, right, and let's say you start talking about, one of the main reasons I'll give you the definition of why you influencer because when you talked about giving negative reviews,

and you don't really do that because that's not, because you're not a critic. I'm not a critic, yeah. You talk about movies that you like. Yeah. Because you want people to be happy about the things you saw, so you're essentially influencing. You know what I mean?

Yeah, but that's, that's kind, And it's also being on, and it's being, you're on, you're very active on social media and Twitter. I'm a consumer. Yes, is what I consider myself. Well, you're a consumer, but you're also, but you're a consumer with a following. You're a consumer to an audience as well. Yeah. You're telling people about the things.

So you're influencing people in your opinions and things of that nature. So in definition, now paid influencer, non-paid influencer, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, whatever it might be. And I think, I fall into both categories, right? Yeah. So. Yeah, it's like, I don't consider you really want, uh, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, because you have been Rotten Tomatoes approved

and like you were one of the first critics in the YouTube space but you're not the first Rotten Tomatoes? Yeah. I know I'm saying one of the first critics that I knew of in the YouTube space like I didn't it was you Stockman

Jeremy Johns that I like knew of that were critiquing movies but your whole brand was Schmo's so it's like we're not the critics, we're dudes. Just you're just talking about the the pitch and always still continue it has been.

I like to talk to people about movies the same way if I go to see a movie with you in the theater and then afterwards we're talking about it outside the theater that's the way I would talk about it on camera where you got a really like critical mind and a brilliant mind like Alonzo Dorale Day or a Bibiani you know. Or talking more aspect ratio and the way that whatever, you know.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Certain ways that they just analyze film and critique film. Like there's a different definition to it. But this show is a critique show. It is, and not just with movies, with the news that we talk about and the TV shows that we talk about and things like when you're doing your TV reviews,

you are critiquing them. So you do fall into the critic side. So if you wanted to, you could do your TV reviews because you're reviewing a critique, because there are ones that you watch. I have been watching a ton of nonscripted shows. That you could talk about. Yeah.

We can maybe do that a little bit. What you know about too hot to handle. I think I know somebody who created it. Is it good? I mean, I just can't believe what it was. It's like a mouse that was caught in a trap, but got out. I feel like a mouse caught in a trap. Did you get out?

Not yet. All right, let's talk about this date. Not good. All righty. I like to start. Where do you find these jokers? This one was on hinge. And he wasn't unhinged.

I think the dating apps need to stop. It's not working for me. No, I don't think they work. But I don't, they work for, I mean, that's... I'm sorry for you. I know, but it's crazy because I would have thought it wouldn't have worked for, for some of the people that we know that all found their men. You're right, Christian.

You got to, you got to stop comparing myself. I'm serious. You got to mean, face to face with somebody. There's just so many people who have met their person on these apps. And if I wouldn't be on it, if I was getting, my friends were setting me up, but they're not. Because nobody's single. And nobody knows anybody's single anymore.

I have one guy that I know. I wonder. Wait, are you just thinking about this just now? Yeah. You know that I've been single, right? I talk to you every week about this. I know. It just popped in your head?

Yeah. Wait, what? I just wonder. Pause and tell me about your thought process just now. Well. You just said it like for the first time ever, I said to you, I'm single, and you said, I have one guy. We told me about this every week for years.

I know. I know. Well, because I ran into him yesterday at a screening. Is he a critic? No. He was a musician, very talented musician for a long time. But had something to happen with his voice. You tried to set stuff up with this guy. They didn't go out, though.

I know, but come on. You didn't think of me. You thought it hurt. So it's not for me. You were seeing Canada at the time. I was? Yes. Wow, he really ghosted me.

Nothing back from Canada. Yeah, you know what? Everybody keeps saying to me, he's going to reach out. Then you better not answer. Somebody said to me the other day, they were like, so what would it take for you to see him again if he reached out? I said, he would have had to have been dead. Right.

And then he can't reach out. Or in a coma for years. Yeah, like something would. He really would have had to have died because why didn't you respond to me? Like, what do you mean? No, he started dating someone. That's what happened. You know that.

I hate to be the bear of bad. I don't know if he started dating somebody. Or you think he wasn't. went more serious at that time. Maybe. And that was it. It was like you guys were, it was like, it was like the bachelor. Maybe got back with an ex.

Maybe. Maybe. So tell me about the, what happens? Okay. So this guy came from Hinge and, um, from jump, I was like, I don't know, because he is one of those guys who reminds me of, like, a Tony Robbins type. Uh-oh. In terms of, like, very, like, wakes up at five, in bed by nine. like, you know, if you believe you can achieve,

like before our day, the date was a coffee date. Okay. And before our date, he went on a 40-mile bike ride. Before the date. Okay. So it's really sweaty. He shower. He's showered.

He's like, oh, I went on 40-mile bike ride today, and then I'm going to go out and do a, like, he's like a triathlon dude. Okay. Yeah. So I don't tend to vibe well with those people because I, for lack of better words, I'm really fun. Like, I like to go out and drink. I like to.

You think that's a thing, though? That what? Going out and drinking is... Not that it's a bad thing. The drinking itself, but that... And brass tacks. So, not stating your age from where you are in your life. I'm 32.

Okay. So 32, and if you're looking for guys in the 35 to 40 range... Right. No, I don't like to go out to the club, but like... You take it out and have a cocktail. I like to go out and have a drink. I like to go to the beach. I like to go.

I like to do things, you know? Like I like to do things. I don't like to wake up at five and go on a 40-mile bike ride and not drink because that's not healthy for you. And making sure that we're counting our not count, whatever they call it, that we're like... That's not really for me. And I feel like out in L.A., people are extreme. I'm a pretty healthy, active person. But I'm not somebody who, like, it's not my personality.

You're also 32, and you're allowed to, that's, I was, and I say that. I don't say that to you, by the way, when I say that about. No, I know what you mean? Like, once I have kids and stuff, I'm not going to be, like, going out to the bars. Of course. Of course. I'm just saying that I wonder, depending on who you're dating, because I'm not, you're not irresponsible. And you're not, when you're going out, you like to have a good time and fun.

But I'm just curious of depending. depending on maybe the people that you are dating, not dating things that they're looking for, things you're not looking for, but that doesn't really seem to be the problem. For a first date though, Christian, and tell me what you actually think about this,

at my, at 32, for a first date, I do want to grab a drink. I don't want to grab coffee. I don't want to do a Saturday, 1 p.m. coffee. I want to do a cocktail. So at 32 years old, if I'm me at 32, and I meet Roxy Strayer at a bar,

and I'm like, okay, you know what? But let's go do something next week. I'm not going to coffee. We're not going to coffee. We're going to drink. At 32. At 40, I'm like, hey, maybe we'll do like a, you know, lunch, dinner. Not really, though, Christian.

At 40, you think that because kids. True. But at 40 with no kids, you still would say, do you want to grab a drink? Maybe. Yeah, I think you're right. Because that's what you do. I'm thinking of me at 40. Right.

But like if you're single at 40, if you're single at whatever age, because I've dated people in their 40s. And I don't, a lot of them, what a lot of people in their 40s do is ask for a dinner first date, which is totally fine too because you can have a glass of wine, you can have food. But I prefer a first date to be kind of in and out. Like I would, I just want to grab a drink. I don't need us to do a nice sit down thing. I don't even know who you are yet. Depends on who it is, right? And how the initial date came to be.

If it's off the app. If it's off of an app. Like if it's a setup and I, or it's somebody that I met out and they asked me, Then dinner's great. Well, yeah, because it's also, if it's somebody that it's like, it's one of these and you don't know who they are, it gives you the option of getting the hell out of there. I think you're right. And at this point, if you're on the apps, you probably know that. So it's like, let's be on the same page. Let's just grab a quick drink.

Let's grab a beer. Like, it should be pretty easy. What you need to do is go to a restaurant that has the bar first and then. Right, and then if you like it, you go and grab something to eat. Totally. So what happens with this character? So we go out for coffee. He asks me for two things, Christian.

He says, we could either. go get coffee or at night I am going with a friend to a club. Do you want to come with us? And I was like, definitely no to that. And how old is this guy? My age. So definitely know to that. And also, you don't drink and you don't.

So what are you talking about? He's like, my friend's DJing that night. I didn't know whether he was trying to impress me. My friend's DJing that night, so I got to go support him or whatever. Anyway, so I was like, let's just grab coffee. He actually picked a really cute place. Okay. And I got there and I got there before he did.

All right. So when we got there, I went and ordered myself a tea. He's not there yet. And it's one of those you order at a counter places. Sure, sure. So I ordered myself a tea. And then I went and sat at this little bar with my tea. And he walked in and I think immediately he was very unhappy with what I had done.

That you ordered a tea? Yes. He said, you already ordered. A tea? And I said, oh, I just got a tea. And he was like, okay. And he was like, okay, so are you not eating? And I was like, oh, you asked me for coffee.

I didn't know we were doing food. And he said, well, I didn't know I was going to be hungry, but I am hungry. And I said, no worries than eat. I just tap I ate because now it was 2 o'clock. So I had eaten lunch and was just grabbed a tea. So he got himself food and a coffee. Then we go to sit outside. And the first thing he said was, okay, let me give you, so he runs at a wellness company.

And when we were messaging, I said, what's a wellness company? Because I don't actually know what that means. He said, I'll tell you when we get coffee. Sure, which is fair. Totally. So at coffee, I said, okay, so what's the wellness company? And he said, well, let me give you the 10,000 foot view of me. And then he monologued for 20 minutes about the 10,000 foot view of him.

Now, let me tell you something that he did. Wait, hold that. Yeah. Scale of, I'm going to guess. I'm going to guess that the answer to my question is 8.5 to 9. Rank this guy looks from 1 to 10. You want to see him? No.

Why? I'm going to show them him. I know, but I want you to rank him first. He's not my type. All right, show me. But he's a very handsome guy. I'll show me. Because this sounds like that.

That he's taught? Yeah, that he just, that's all he's got. Um, he, mm, okay, when I find it, I'll show you after because I have to find it. All right now. Let me see if I pull this up right now. But he, um, he's definitely a handsome guy. So he did something. No, he said, let me give you the 10,000 foot view of me. So let me tell you what he did. So, okay, hold on. This is like a, yeah, 100%. He's a handsome dude. It looks like Joey from the new kids on a block.

Kind of. Wait, which one's Joey? Joey, what is it? Macaton. What his name is Macintyriero? Something like that. Macaton or something like that. I know what you're talking about.

He looks just like him. Yeah, he's handsome guy. Not Joey. Is it Joey? I think I know who you're doing. You know what I'm talking about it. He looks like a new kid on the block. A new kid on the block.

He had a bunch of hits. Yeah, but go ahead. So what did he do? He was, so this is something that I have noticed. So on his profile, he puts his Instagram. Yes. I don't do that. He did.

Okay. I went and looked at it. You tell me that some people do that. So I went and looked at it and I found out that his mom died right around the same time. My mom died, which is actually one of the reasons that I said yes to going on a date with him. Because usually that gives us a commonality. And typically, you're more grounded if that happened. So he says, let me give you the 10,000 foot view of me and immediately start with his mom dying.

And I have found, and this is not everybody. this is a generalization, but I have personally found that men use their trauma to try to get in your pants. Oh, okay. If somebody says that in the first 10 minutes of a date, if they either say that somebody in their family died or something very traumatic that happened to them. Can I stop you for a thing? Men will use anything. Right. But that's something I have found, like, is a common thing that guys do.

Like, my mom's also dead. I don't plan on opening with that. Because I don't think that. So you think he was opening to try to get... I don't know, but I have noticed that with men. That fuckboys, there's a direct correlation between that and trauma sharing really quickly. Can you repeat? You meant fuckboys as a fuckboy island.

Yeah. It came out wrong. It did. Yeah. It came out like, I fuck. No, it's like, you know, those guys that fuck boys? No, no, he's an F boy. So when he said that, I was like, and then he went on this 20-minute thing.

and I said to him... Diatribe? And what not? Kind of. Okay. And I said to him, how many times have you given that speech when he ended? Because it was...

I love that you said it, but I probably didn't go over well. No, I think he realized that I... You're not going to do that with me. And he was like a lot, a lot of times. And I was like, all right, so let's like converse instead. Right. And he was like, you're right, right.

Did it work? Yeah, so then he kind of dropped that. I was going to say his speech worked? No, the speech didn't work, but what I said kind of worked because then he became like a person. Right. And then we had a nice hour-long conversation. Okay. So what happened?

But the conversation lacked passion and any, like it felt like a business. Yeah, it felt like very. Yeah, it felt like a meeting. Yeah, it felt like a meeting. Okay, you had a good meeting. Yeah. New kid. So it was Canada, now New Kid.

New Kid doesn't make the. New kid probably won't be... New kid came and went, I think. That's it. Yeah, I think that would be the last... Not even. Not a hit, though. Yeah.

You know when you're saying goodbye to somebody, like, we hugged, and I was like, goodbye. Because I... You knew it was, that was the end of it. Yeah. Yeah. Just didn't work out. Yeah, I don't think so. So it wasn't really a douche.

It just wasn't... It just didn't work. No, he was actually, when he dropped the whole, like, this is what I do and da-da-da. He was actually lovely, but... Just not for you. I don't think so, because it was just... Just like, I don't know, do you feel like you should feel a spark the first time that you meet somebody? I mean, look, there's always a chance.

There's always a chance that that can, that's something else that you find, you know. Right. He didn't seem like he did anything minus open. And again, we don't know. He said he opened up with the speech and all that to it and obviously feel bad for the fact that he lost his mom and all that. Yeah, but you can't out trauma me. Right. Like, I know what you're doing.

Right. You got the right stuff. Baby. That's the song, Didle-Daddle-D-D-Loo. So, I do have a special guest for you, though. Hey, Roxy. Hey, Roxy, guess what?

I will go out with you now. I know that all these guys, they come and win, but you know what it is. It's the big bow. I thought, I genuinely thought you were going to give me some genuine, that my friend Christian was going to give me a genuine response. He did. He introduced you to me. And he said, come on, Roxy.

Now, come on, be honest with you. You show up at Doreena and Steph's place and they show you and say, hey, this is my, this is my husband. And then she said, this is my boyfriend. And then Steph says, this is my boyfriend. And you go, yeah, but look at this. Mother of God. And here I come, like two bowling balls right between my little legs. It doesn't do it for me. No.

It's strangely enough, I'm not mainly looking for. for big bald people. I'm not a person. Big, I'm a chipmunk. Big bald chipmunks. You're not looking for one. No, I landed in your lap. Beed pretty heavy.

All right, he's gone. Sorry about that. He shows up sometimes. You're proud of yourself. What am I proud of? I didn't do it. That was him. What do you mean? Hmm. Hey, you know how it works here.

Am I wrong? I had no idea. Well, now you found out. What I did a chipmong? Not there yet. That bit's over. I've been doing things. I've been doing things.

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There's word that the potential that they're going to meet studios. Let's see. I was, I'm coming from the picket line just now to hear. Oh, were you? Okay. Yeah. And I was kind of like listening for whispers of people if they're starting to feel hopeful because they are coming back to the table.

Because for those people who don't know, which actually I think most people don't know, during this process, they have not been negotiating. No. So what even at the table? Right. So I don't think people realize that. They're like, what's taking so long? They haven't even gotten to the. No.

No, this is from the LA Times. Yes. L.A. Times. All right, L.A. Times. Representatives of the Writers Guild of America and the major studios have agreed to meet for the first time since the Hollywood Writers' Rights Strike began three months ago. In a statement... 93 days as today. Wow.

In a statement sent to its members Tuesday night, the Writers Guild negotiating committee said that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which bargains of behalf of Walt Disney, Warner Brothers, Discovery, Netflix, and other streaming service. and studios reached out to request a meeting on Friday to discuss negotiations. It is unclear whether the meeting will result in any breakthrough to resolve the months-long conflict, but it is a sign of possible thaw in the tense standoff over streaming pay and other issues. We'll be back in communication with you sometime after the meeting with further information the Writers Guild Negotiating Committee wrote. The meeting comes at a time when studios face mounting pressure to resolve a widening labor dispute that roiled Hollywood.

three weeks ago. SAG joined writers on the picket lines, halting film and TV production nationwide plan. Movie shoots have been scrapped and the upcoming fall TV seasons in jeopardy with new scripted episodes of Abbott Elementary Law and Order SVU and NCS. Top Studio execs discuss a strategy for resolving

the conflict at a meeting on Friday. We remain committed to finding a path to mutually beneficial deals with both unions, the AMPTP said in a statement on Tuesday. Okay, so this is, I think this is the beginning of it. I really do.

I think the beginning of the end. For them, for SAG, for both? It's the start of it because you're not going to get, because the writers have been, as Chris Carcetti on the yesterday's show, actors are used to being out of work for two weeks, so they're going to hold strong. They're going to be on the picket line for as long as they have to be. The writers have been there for three months,

and they've been really putting the work to, that's why like SAG has gotten their back and everybody has their back and they should be the ones because they can't both, you can only negotiate with one at a time. So they're going to negotiate with the Writers Guild.

Did you see the stats that came out to? I think that this was something that they weren't able to deny. So the day that this broke, they released information that was that what the Writers Guild altogether was asking for was equivalent to a little over 400, million dollars. Okay.

And what they have lost the studios during the 93 days is $2.6 billion. And so I think that even if evil or not, if you are a businessman and in your bottom line is what matters most to you. How do you look at those numbers and think, okay, if this goes on another 90-something days, I mean, we're just, they're bleeding themselves dry. Yeah. And especially because the actors are going to figure. it out. They're going to figure it out quick with the actors.

Like the writer's skilled, they want to, I think it's going to be the harder of the negotiations. So that's another reason why they're talking with them. But I do think they realize, look, when we talked about this up top, when it's first started, we said they have no intention. They have no intention of

figuring this out quick. They're going to let it go until Comic-Con, we said. And then after Comic-Con, maybe they start trying to figure it out. And that's exactly what's happening. Because they had enough time because they, for the writers, the writers, they planned it out enough where they had enough projects in the can, everything, and

they wouldn't, they might have lost my, I think they lost more money when SAG starts started going down for sure. Significantly. There's also a clause in a lot of writers' contracts that, um, with the strike, after 90 days, um, their contracts expire.

Right. So now I do think that studios are looking at this, thinking that the writers are more desperate. The studios are, both are coming from a place of aspiration at this point. But the studios are more willing to fold than the writers, obviously. Yeah, and I think this is also, and it's going to get, and I think at one point you mentioned it, but I don't know, I don't think Biden got involved in it, but I think that I know at one point

they said that Newsom is going to involve, because he's got it for a lot of different reasons, right? One, the governor of California, and that's, and it's an absolutely major thing for him to get involved in, but also the fact that it's California puts in so much revenue to the overall United States, right? Yeah, for the economy. I mean, it's a huge, huge hit. And he's going to be, whether it's against, you know, whether it's coming up soon or in another four to half, five years, he's going to be running for the big seat, right?

And what you don't want to do, let's say it's in, it's the next election after this one, he's up there and he's like, well, you had to strike going on. You lost billions of dollars. You didn't even get involved. that is a heavy piece of debate. Yeah, it's just a challenging position to be in for him. Not that he's the one I feel the worst for. Because you're also negotiating with the people that typically end up being the ones

that finance your campaign. Yeah, 100%. I mean, there's a conflict of interest there. And we're losing billions and billions of dollars for the economy for California. but it's also same things are happening. I'm sure they're having the same conversations in New York in Illinois and, you know, all over the place. I don't know when I think I told you I called my dad about this because I'm stressed as shit because this is affecting my wallet. This is affecting every area of my life as it's affecting everybody, you, everybody that we know.

And my dad was like, well, you know, Biden, he wants to get involved and Biden had said he did want to get involved. and I'm just, and he's like, and Newsom wants to get involved, those are all very good things. And I'm thinking about it and it's just like, I don't know that more hands is going to be helpful to this. Like, I understand from a business perspective that old school thinking might think that. But for me, thinking about like, how did that, how would that logistically help? I don't really get it. Probably not. But I think that, you mean as far as I'm getting involved?

Like, it might help, like you just talked about with Newsom's campaign. It doesn't look good to not get involved at all, but. Well, Newsom getting involved. would probably, to me, makes more sense in Biden because Newsom probably has a lot of relationships with these people are ready. But what could he actually do? I mean, look, it's one of these things where it's like, if you, this is the way politics or anything, whether it's politics, politics within anything that you're working with that you're involved in, right? The politics of your business, it's like, if you know, like, okay, these two people are having, or these five people are having an issue. And you haven't gotten involved at all.

And I know that you know three of those people really well. Can you talk to them for us? Maybe you can get them to get to the table? Maybe you can have that conversation and say, hey, I know that you guys are planning on doing this then, but for the state. But usually it's when people aren't understanding each other. I don't think they're not understanding each other.

But it's also a matter of them doing, we're not going to talk to them at this point. Who are not? Maybe Newsom got, I'm not saying he did, but maybe he got involved with this writer's side of it. Yeah, I'm totally with, I'm not saying it would be harmful. I just, this is where I'm not educated and enough to know, like, what exactly he can do. And maybe there is some authority that you have where you can say to companies,

if they're losing too much money for the entire. You got to sit down. You have to do this. Yeah, like, I don't know. Yeah, I mean, that could be, I mean, there's got to be something with the seat. Yeah. But either way, I do think that this is a very good sign that they're able to finally. And as you said, I'm glad you brought that up, though, too.

it's not like, oh, they've been sitting down every day and they just can't come to terms. This is the first time they've sat down in three months. So it is unlikely that in meeting one, they're going to come to, oh, okay, we're just kidding. Yeah, you guys have everything you want. See you later. They're going to be like, no, you can, we thought about it. And basically what we're comfortable with, and hopefully you're happy with this. We're willing to offer you this, this, this and this.

We're not going to budge on this, but we're going to stay here, but we'll give you this. And the writer's going to have to look at that and say either, okay, that's a bit of a stretch, but we can make that work, or this is outrageous, back to the picking lines. I'm super curious as to, especially with the WGA, because it seems like they're going to probably set precedent with the studio, how they are going to handle this AI situation. Because that's not, and that's something everybody should be looking at, even if you have nothing to do with the entertainment industry at home, how the WGA and these studios decide to move forward with A. and in which way and what rules are set in place is going to affect consumers, obviously. It's going to change the business forever. It's also going to affect, I believe, how a lot of unions and AI taking a lot of people's job, how people deal with this. However they deal with AI today is not how they're going to deal with it tomorrow.

Because there was this article or tweet that I saw. I can't remember who tweeted it out. People were going nuts about it, right? This woman, she talked about this romantic comedy. Well, she just talked about how AI is going to work. Did we talk about this yet? And essentially, which is she works in AI, and she says essentially how it's going to work is you can go home and you can say,

let's say that what's a show that you wish would have kept on going, that you didn't want to end? Sopranos? Sure. So AI is going to kind of have the power for you to say, okay, I'm in the mood for, I really would like to see what would have happened if we actually saw Tony get shot, but he survived, and there was another season, or he died and Meadow took over, and season seven or whatever it is,

that's the Sopranos, cook me up that. And AI is going to be able to cook that up for you. And you'll be able to watch that. And that's, that's, not today, but eventually. And it's like you have. It's almost like fanfic. More or less, but you'll be able to, you never, like, your shows will never end. You're going to have whatever you're going to have.

And then there was one where they said basically, they asked the question. Let's say I wanted to, someone asked, like, let's say I want to do a movie with, like, younger Sandra Bullock and, like, I don't know, Tom Holland at the same age. Could do that? Yeah, but there might be a portion where you're, like, subscribed to these actors and you can make them in these movies. That is so weird. It's crazy. Now, for us, for us, it's bizarre. It's crazy to think of.

And the creativity behind it is just kind of like, is it creative or is it just a machine making these things and how? But think about it almost. like the Ready Player 1 aspect of it, where if kids grow up with that, that's what they're going to know. I know. It's like, you know how nowadays, if you watch a movie on film, it's like, wow. Yeah. Because everything is digitized. It's like the Oppenheimer. We watched the Oppenheimer. Yeah. That was great. I genuinely, I'm an artist, as are you. And like in my soul of souls, since I was three years old, I've been an artist. I paint. and I sculpts and I do stained glass and acting and dancing. And those are things that like I've done since I was a Wii one.

I care so much about art. Yeah. I'm not interested in what a machine has to say about the world. Right. I'm not interested in it. And even knowing that it's coming from AI will make me not look at it the same because it's not as... That's the argument against it for sure. And it's not, it doesn't have the soul, right?

Right. It lacks soul. There's on the picket line, somebody had a sign that said, actually, maybe it was Durina for a WGA, AI doesn't have childhood trauma. And it's like, true. Like, I don't care what a machine has to say about X, Y, and Z. I care what people have to say.

Sure. Now, that doesn't mean that AI won't get so good that it can't convince a lot of people that it is a person. Right. But I don't know. There's just something so not intriguing about it. And this is coming from the girl. Do you remember on Clyder?

I used to always say, use me for all the things. But that's when I'm big and famous. I want to be infamous. We've talked about the James Dean stuff. We've talked about those types of things. And I think that that's the, basically for people. And I want to be paid for that. My family to be paid for it.

But that's what it comes down to, right? And then so for people who are newer and don't know what the hell we're talking about. So James Dean and a few other actors have like their estates have. Is that like a sleeping commercial? Yeah, but their states have basically signed them up to where they, you can, they were going to do like a full movie with James Dean. And then, you know, people were like, oh, that shouldn't happen. Because this is like, that is the start of it.

And it would probably definitely use a lot, a lot of the AI programs now and do that. So the question, it does need to be figured out. But the one thing you're not going to do is you're not going to stop it. It's just not going to stop. Like, now that this technology is out in the world now. But you can't allow these people to not profit from it. I totally agree. That's a huge, a massive problem is, and everybody I believe knows this at this point, but sometimes I say things and people are like, what?

I'm like, oh yeah, I'm in such a bubble, that they are asking people for, in SAG for one day work to, they're getting paid for one day and they own you for your likeness forever. That's just, that's, that's wrong. It's wrong. It's unreasonable. It's not, it's not. And they profit off you forever. Right, which is not. And your family can't, you can't.

provide any right well which is why you they have to then I think that a lot of that stuff's going to come down to because I think because the benefit the studio thinks that they have is because AI is so new that nobody really knows it and what it can do even though they might have the kind of inside track of what it can do but the writers and the actors killed are like well wait a minute the possibilities of what this thing can do in general if you're going to use it you got to think in the long run and you got to pay us and you got to make sure that you can't you you're not, one time I come onto a set, and then if you want to use me in some movie in 50 years from now, because I had the right look, but no one I'm related to profits from it, that's not right.

Are you reading about AI getting dumber? No. There's all these studies now about, because they're... Who's all? I'm going to find you right now. Yeah, there's a few studies right now. I'll pull something up for you. Okay.

But because they're human trained, they get dumber from the, because they have somebody from the Florida Bama Shore program. Okay, this is coming from Business Insider. The AI behind Chat GPT really does seem to be getting dumber, but no one can quite figure out why. Okay. This is coming from a paper from Stanford and UC Berkeley scientists, found GPT's performance had dropped recently.

Okay. And they talk about some of the reasons why it could, possibly be happening. Okay. But they are also saying that that it's varying greatly, that there's not like consistency now. It's not a perfect model yet, obviously.

No, no, it's still, it's still new. It's still new. It's still an effing machine. Right. Cars still crash. Like, you still need... Well, that's, look, so that's the thing, though, too. I do firmly believe because everybody

everybody have cars that can drive themselves, right? I do believe that AI is going to be driving cars in like 10 or 15 years. Probably saving a lot of lives. And probably a couple different times, though, messing up. Yeah. And when it does, that's when everybody, it's like a movie. Everyone's going to go, wait a minute. It's been working for so long, but it went, why?

And then it's like that movie, like, but that one, why did that one go off track? You know, it's like. And that's what's- Transformers. Yeah. Everybody, move. And that's what's going to happen now. That was good. Thanks.

How did you do that? Roxy, move out. Christian, move out. It's good. Roxy Stryor. This is Optimus Prime. Get a Tesla. That's a really good voice.

Thanks. Do you do that? I just did. For the first time? No, I've done it before. It's a good one. He did it to Mike Kalinowski for like five minutes and he was just sitting there. I can't remember what he said.

It was funny, though. He must be struggling right now, too. Yeah, I'm sure. I felt bad because he was supposed to come in yesterday. but he wrote me in the morning. So am I coming in? I was like, well, can you come in at this time? And he's got to go back and forth between both his gigs,

and he just couldn't come in. So they're still working? Yeah. Yeah, it's still working over there. I mean, it's the theme park, and it's, but I wonder what they can do and what they can't. It's so. Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know. I saw him and Sam picketing together. Okay. Yeah, I saw the pictures, yeah. It's interesting. All right, before we move on, because I want to get to, I know people want to hear about the neighbor,

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I let you down. The neighbor does not need help, right? We don't know. We still don't know. All right. So let's, again, for people who are tuning into this segment for the first time. Oh, boy. I think we're in episode three here when it comes to... Is it? I think so. I know I had mentioned her throughout. You definitely mentioned her before, but we really got into, like, the saga recently.

And we were trying to figure out Roxy, we don't know what Roxy's neighbor is, does, no idea. Actually, this is probably number four. Because the first one was the dog one. The second one was... We had to fill Breton on the dog one. The second one was we didn't know if she was torturing or getting tortured. The third one was the hallway hug. Oh, the hallway hug one.

So this is four. A lot of people came and went this week in the hallway. All right. What happened? Set me up to this entire song. Here's what we've gotten this week. Here are the updates this week. I'm listening.

There's been a lot of people coming and going. Okay. But not hearing as many noises. Right. Just a lot of people coming and going. And then I was woken up at like maybe three. 3.30 in the morning. 3.30.

To just... Okay. And I was like... But how do you know that she wasn't working on something? Don't know. Okay. But then kind of heard a...

Okay. But I'm in my room. We know that was her this time. I don't know. Okay. But then I was like, oh my God. I am dead asleep, but I need to get up

and record this for the show. Okay. So then I did, but by the time I did that, it all stopped. So it was just... Oh, so it was too late. Yeah.

I like that you actually tried to get up and do it. I did. I did try. I have a video I could show you of me trying. It's literally me standing. We definitely should by that. But yeah, it was consistent like this. And then it stopped and I was like, huh, I wonder what's happening there.

And her singing lessons have stopped too. Oh, I forgot about that. Yeah, it hasn't been any singing. I wonder she quit that. But she's really starting to piss me off, though, about something. What? The picture I sent you with the mattress in her spot. It's still there?

She's put more stuff there coming out further from the wall. She's now parking angular, like, in my spot. Oh, it's in your spot. Well, no, this is great news. No, it's not. This is great news. I'm not getting around the show, Christian. It's not just about getting around the show.

It's partially about getting around the show. But it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, is great news. It allows conversation to be had. I've asked her 80 times. To move this stuff? Please. It says in my lease, in her lease, you are not allowed to keep any of your belongings down there. Okay, so what does she say when you tell her?

Yeah, sorry. Are you, um, that's it? How do you respond to something like that? So she's had two lamps in the spot, these big gold arched lamps. Are they named? No. Oh. Maybe she has names for them.

I thought she was selling them. So I asked for them to buy them because I like them. Right. So you know, no, no, I'm just keeping them here. For what? And now it's like bags and boxes and all this stuff. And every time I'm like, you're taking them a lot of room in the spot. She's like, oh, I'll park closer to it.

And I'm like, I need to say something to my landlord, but I try so hard not to do that. But this, you might call for it. However, I did find a solution. You're going to think I'm kidding, but I'm not. I did find a solution on how we get to the bottom of this and find out who she is and what she does. I'm probably going to say no, but what do you got? Dagnino. No, no, I cannot put Dagnino on the case.

He's not taken anymore. I know, but I just. I don't even want Dagnino to know where I live. Fair. Didn't you guys just be neighbors? Yeah. What was that like? It was wild.

I lived in a triangle with Makuga, Dagnino, and me, and they would work out. I lived right outside of the park, and they would work out at the park every single day, almost every day. And McCuga would do it in a very Maccuga way, and Degnino would do it in a very Dagnino way. And Degnino also at the time, remember. remember he was driving all those big trucks for all these studios? I remember. You could always park them and block everybody, like, on the street because he was supposed to be driving them around,

but instead he would just go home and nap and stuff. So he would park them, and nobody could get by anything. You'd be working out. There'd be the big truck there, and all these, like, it's where all the Russian chess players would play chess, and everybody would always just look at it, and you try to have conversations with everybody. He was wild.

I'm sure he was. much fun though. We would walk every weekend to those bars that were just a blast. Yeah, yeah, right there. Yeah. I remember. I remember. I will say, because you know, I love Dagnino. Yeah, so why not put him on the case? No, because you know he would solve it. What am I going to do in the next room here, him? I just can't. But do you at least have information. It's not worth it. It can't be worth it. What do you guys think? Well, they're going to say yes, but the answer's no. Let's put Dagnino on the case. No.

Do you think we should? What do you mean no? I say no. But what if they say yes? Listen. If they love me, they won't. I'm on the case. You haven't been very good.

I've been good. You've been getting good, like, footage or audio. I know. But, like, we still don't know. We're never really going to find out. Her car was gone most of last week. And I was kind of like... I don't know.

I don't know. I'm confused about her life. Me too. I really got to talk to some of the other neighbors. I got to see if they can fill in any of the blanks for me. You definitely should do that for sure. You should absolutely do that for sure. Yeah, that's really, really interesting.

I don't know what she's doing over there, especially with the back and forth with the hugs. What? Could be an alien. Well, that we haven't, you've got to come and join us on, I've told the audience, too, because we've been covering this on Tuesdays

with Riley now. And our episode is really good. People liked our episode. Is Riley coming in and in person? Yeah. You know, I haven't seen him in. Well, you should come. I mean, I genuinely don't.

Oh, since your birthday. Since my birthday. Is that the last time he's home? Yeah. Oh, well. Well, yeah. And that was the first time I had seen him since. Whenever.

Yeah. Well, yeah. So he's on Tuesdays and we film, we film those episodes. And I, because not everybody is, and they do really well those episodes but not everybody's into it so I also don't want people to think that that was changing the channel

because that's not what we're doing so we're doing full-on episodes just dedicated to all the UAP stuff and that's on Tuesdays. Where are you right now? What I mean? No, no, no. I was, the, I finally got the episode

Oh, good job. Yesterday's episode. It was a real pain in the butt, but I did it. I saw somebody comment on your thing asking if you had worked on because you looked so young. Did you see that comment? No.

And I said, do you think I had worked on? No, but I do think you look young. Do I? Yeah. So I don't have a hat on. Could be. Could be. Well, thank you for that.

Anyway, I think that's everything today. We'll get, well, look, once these strikes are over, we'll have a lot more to talk about, but Roxy's giving us a lot of stuff with the neighbor and the dating. So go ahead and comment, let us know. We've got some more episodes coming up very, very soon. Roxy will be back next week. And Brett, hopefully, we'll be back, too. So thanks for joining us here today.

Thank you to Roxy. Make sure you catch us. on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, anywhere podcasts are found. You guys are the best. We'll see you on the flip side. Peace.