I know you guys were like, James again, was he gonna talk about
now? Well, welcome to fifty plus. I'm James LOGI her and GLJ
Medi and I want to talk about the strike. I have some things to
say and I'm going to say them, as you know I do. And
I just number one want to say, I'm looking for compassion and grace and
understanding from people, and you don't always get it. There are folks who
just think that creatives are just whiney brats, that we you know, that
we all were all rich. That was the one thing that surprised me.
I thought nowadays people knew that that wasn't true, but that we're all got
money and we're just whiney brats. Get back to work. What are you
doing? I want my shows. I've seen a lot of that. Actually
I've seen a lot of other people saw it and solidarity, but I've seen
a lot of that, and I'm like, weally still happening. So I
just want to give you again. I would tell you high Field, this
affects me also, so it misaffects me, and I'm gonna tell you how
and why. So I'm not in the WGA or a psych After or Producers
Union or Director's guil. I want to be I would like to join them
at some point. I'm part of some other things like as CAP and other
organizations I want to join. So when they start going and so when they
go on strike number one, I fight. They're fighting for me also,
so at the future when I come in, I have a good deal.
When I get in there, do you pay dues all this stuff? We'll
make sure you get a good deal. And I think I'm just I'm surprised
that a lot of people don't know exactly what I guess. It's confusing.
I know it's confusing. Now we have a double strike, so this is
really shutting down Hollywood in many ways, and it's cost chaos everywhere. And
also my soap world. The soap actors have a separate contract that do in
twenty twenty four, so they're allowed to work now. Some of the writers
or the soaps are sag raft writers. So now we have what they call
fly corps writers who are actually writing the scripts now, not the regular writers.
Depends on which soap it is. So there's that going on. I
was confusing, right, are going on all this? I have friends who
are hairdressers, hairstylists, makeup people, crew who aren't working because of these
strikes that are happening right now. There's shows are on hiatus. If you
have a show, there's not a subbobrom chance a shutdown production. It's an
America shutdown production, or it's about to shutdown production, or its mostly shutdown.
We'll be happening. If they have new content coming out, they cannot
promote. I gotta see He's will come out and promote When Calls the Heart,
which is a show that I watch on Homemark channel, and I'm going
to do you alive show we week starting in two weeks. It's a press
band. Now they will not be I can't ask you're going to be guests
on my show. Many of them are SAG. After I have a couple
of audio dramas. I have some SAG working. I can't they can't work
on an audio dramas, So we can't work on the audio dramas because there
are big parts that I can't write parts for them and have them do shows.
Every interview that gets canceled, which has been happening to me recently,
every show that gets canceled, or even he gets canceled. That's money out
of my pocket because you get to se these things for free. So what
happens is I get the interview, I post them, I monetize them so
I can get money from YouTube or an audio. And so every view,
every download, every listen, every spin, I get pennies ors of my
own dollar. But I get nice chunks of money because if you guys are
so kind to jail d media, you wantch a lot of my content,
it's very good. I get. I get some good, get trunks some
money every month. Well, now it's not happening when it comes to these
I didn't get. I used to get like forty fifty interviews that didn't happen.
I think the one major thing to look at this is is that just
a trickle down effect, especially if you in Los Angeles or Atlanta, Chicago,
New Yard. Some of these cities are very heavily reliant on the industry,
especially Los Angeles. There are many of us are doffing parts of the
issue. But then also there are restaurants. There are you know, catering
in restaurants, hospitality, um stores, clothing stores, retail um, dry
cleaners, you know, tailors, dressmakers, there are all these things that
continually spos going and ensually going that support the industry. Um, it's a
problem that means that we're not having anything come out. Then they have something
coming out that we happing without too um and be silent, and the WGA
has gone the sprice we on. This will be twelve weeks beginning as it
starts today. Week one begins. Well, he struck half last week,
so this begins a full week for them striking a SAG after him. I
think people don't or if they don't, there's sometimes I don't care about actors
who cares about their mom. I'm okay, I guess you don't care.
But any industry that employs people, there should be equity amongst the people.
You should get paid a decent wage and have good health care. That's how
I feel about any industry, no matter what it is. I don't care
if it's UPS and Amazon, I don't care if it's medical, I don't
care if it's at your cultural whatever, you should have at least the basics
and about not even said of the people in this industry don't even make enough
money as an ever changing industry, which always as technology is changing, there's
Hervey and I of course not just that there's streaming services, there's more money
being made, more opportunities. But still there are thousands of thousands of people
in this industry. Writers, actress, producers, directors. We all work
gig to gig, job to job, product to project. We are check
to check, check to check. We choose that way, of course,
because we love this business and we're creatives and we try to have so it
doesn't matter if we choose to live this way or not, but we would
like to have money and get paid for our creativity, the creativity that you
enjoy. And so that's yeah, they're not even asking for a lot.
Most people are making under the twenty six thousand dollars a year, SOEO will
get even health benefits, that's what's crazy. So they'll have two or three
jobs. Not my colleagues that you know, don't even have that don't do
this full time. I do this full time. I liked that I do
it full time. Love people don't do it full time. And also folks
who are like, we don't need house for reward shows, let's taking money
out of my mouth. I appreciate it. I'm like, I'm a host.
I'm a paid host. Some shows do need hosts, and they need
somebody to be the ring leader and ring master and move things along and give
some levity and brevity in between and between moments. Um, a good host.
You guys have all seen them. They're really good. They could add
to and really add to an award show. Um, yes, there are
a couple of wards shows. Appigtment and need them is bad. But again,
hostings profession and it's not easily and everybody can do it. People think
they can do it, but everybody can do it. And that's that's to
get money out that that's the job that I can't get. I'd love to
host the MS one day or the Oscars, and I'm gonna love to do
that. But you just say take away the host we don't care about.
They don't need them anyway, just to have an award show. I'm sorry,
don't look, I'm not down for that, not at all. That
doesn't work for me either, because that's taking money out of my mouth.
There's a lot of professions here all the way from backhouse work to data entry
and everything that's affected by these strikes. Someone's making lots of money and it
ain't us. So we got to feed this out and say so take the
A list actors out of it and all that kind of stuff. That's a
separate thing. It's just for the majority of the business. I live a
day to day so I know this for a fact, and I see people's
checks and things. I get it UM in terms like you know, a
job that doesn't help any doesnt help anything either. It's like if you're your
professional or you're a nurse and you love your job, you'll make enough money.
You'll tell nurse, we'll get no job, Go go work in retail.
It's like you're a nurse, you want to work a nursing so you
want to work as if you're a writer, you want to write. And
I just had to get my two stents because I'm a supporter both both Joga
and sand after strike. And there are things that I'm not doing in solidary
because I'm not a remember yet but I want to be remember at some point.
Uh. And there's some things that it's out a principle I'm not doing.
There are things I'm adjusting too and hope to continue adjust to. UM.
These are sacrifices, but I take sacrifices because I believe in folks having
equal again, decent pay, equal opportunity, and and good healthcare. Folks,
I just had to re up my healthcare and they had a phone interview
and I was had to set it all this stuff. It's a lot where
we need it. We're all getting older, we all need it. Um,
So I just want to I just want to get my You always get
my two cents. And that's what's been in my mind this week. Um.
You know, my heart goes out to everyone who's striking. Um,
you go online and fightest places you can go to help with the street wall
strike because they're gonna need they gonna need it. It's hot as f out
here in Los Angeles. Um, if you have umbrellas, parasols, drive
by water, drop off water, they're everywhere. Go if you're online,
fine places, but look up, look at the studios. Those are they're
they're there, Sony, Paramount, Burbang, every they're they're out there,
Netflix, look up the studios and drive by Punk, the Hornets, Alderity
Show, mature. At least you have some compassion to them. Give out
water, give out food, pizzas, whatever, do whatever you can to
help out. If you don't live here, there's funds you look for.
Support their channels. Some of them say they actually have other things they can
work on. Support that stuff. That's kind of my thing, so do
what you can. I have done that, so I'm going to continue to
support my friends. I'm James alors A fifty plus on JLJ Media, on
YouTube, or on any streaming service platform audio. Take to you next time.