WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.560 --> 00:00:08.599 I know you guys were like, James again, was he gonna talk about 2 00:00:08.640 --> 00:00:12.480 now? Well, welcome to fifty plus. I'm James LOGI her and GLJ 3 00:00:12.599 --> 00:00:16.280 Medi and I want to talk about the strike. I have some things to 4 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:21.160 say and I'm going to say them, as you know I do. And 5 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:30.199 I just number one want to say, I'm looking for compassion and grace and 6 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:35.640 understanding from people, and you don't always get it. There are folks who 7 00:00:35.679 --> 00:00:41.520 just think that creatives are just whiney brats, that we you know, that 8 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:44.640 we all were all rich. That was the one thing that surprised me. 9 00:00:44.679 --> 00:00:47.679 I thought nowadays people knew that that wasn't true, but that we're all got 10 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:51.799 money and we're just whiney brats. Get back to work. What are you 11 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:54.560 doing? I want my shows. I've seen a lot of that. Actually 12 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:57.719 I've seen a lot of other people saw it and solidarity, but I've seen 13 00:00:57.719 --> 00:01:02.119 a lot of that, and I'm like, weally still happening. So I 14 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:03.120 just want to give you again. I would tell you high Field, this 15 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:07.640 affects me also, so it misaffects me, and I'm gonna tell you how 16 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:11.239 and why. So I'm not in the WGA or a psych After or Producers 17 00:01:11.319 --> 00:01:15.239 Union or Director's guil. I want to be I would like to join them 18 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:19.560 at some point. I'm part of some other things like as CAP and other 19 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:26.040 organizations I want to join. So when they start going and so when they 20 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:29.280 go on strike number one, I fight. They're fighting for me also, 21 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:32.359 so at the future when I come in, I have a good deal. 22 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:36.319 When I get in there, do you pay dues all this stuff? We'll 23 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:40.640 make sure you get a good deal. And I think I'm just I'm surprised 24 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:46.319 that a lot of people don't know exactly what I guess. It's confusing. 25 00:01:46.359 --> 00:01:49.599 I know it's confusing. Now we have a double strike, so this is 26 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:53.719 really shutting down Hollywood in many ways, and it's cost chaos everywhere. And 27 00:01:53.640 --> 00:02:00.640 also my soap world. The soap actors have a separate contract that do in 28 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:04.640 twenty twenty four, so they're allowed to work now. Some of the writers 29 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:07.400 or the soaps are sag raft writers. So now we have what they call 30 00:02:07.479 --> 00:02:14.919 fly corps writers who are actually writing the scripts now, not the regular writers. 31 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:16.319 Depends on which soap it is. So there's that going on. I 32 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:23.159 was confusing, right, are going on all this? I have friends who 33 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:29.240 are hairdressers, hairstylists, makeup people, crew who aren't working because of these 34 00:02:29.240 --> 00:02:32.560 strikes that are happening right now. There's shows are on hiatus. If you 35 00:02:32.599 --> 00:02:38.759 have a show, there's not a subbobrom chance a shutdown production. It's an 36 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:43.000 America shutdown production, or it's about to shutdown production, or its mostly shutdown. 37 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:46.479 We'll be happening. If they have new content coming out, they cannot 38 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:53.240 promote. I gotta see He's will come out and promote When Calls the Heart, 39 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:57.080 which is a show that I watch on Homemark channel, and I'm going 40 00:02:57.159 --> 00:03:00.199 to do you alive show we week starting in two weeks. It's a press 41 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:04.159 band. Now they will not be I can't ask you're going to be guests 42 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:07.240 on my show. Many of them are SAG. After I have a couple 43 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:10.199 of audio dramas. I have some SAG working. I can't they can't work 44 00:03:10.199 --> 00:03:14.479 on an audio dramas, So we can't work on the audio dramas because there 45 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:16.759 are big parts that I can't write parts for them and have them do shows. 46 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:23.439 Every interview that gets canceled, which has been happening to me recently, 47 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:27.800 every show that gets canceled, or even he gets canceled. That's money out 48 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:31.159 of my pocket because you get to se these things for free. So what 49 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:37.039 happens is I get the interview, I post them, I monetize them so 50 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:40.479 I can get money from YouTube or an audio. And so every view, 51 00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:46.599 every download, every listen, every spin, I get pennies ors of my 52 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:49.759 own dollar. But I get nice chunks of money because if you guys are 53 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:52.639 so kind to jail d media, you wantch a lot of my content, 54 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:54.759 it's very good. I get. I get some good, get trunks some 55 00:03:54.759 --> 00:04:00.280 money every month. Well, now it's not happening when it comes to these 56 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:04.000 I didn't get. I used to get like forty fifty interviews that didn't happen. 57 00:04:04.879 --> 00:04:10.280 I think the one major thing to look at this is is that just 58 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:13.879 a trickle down effect, especially if you in Los Angeles or Atlanta, Chicago, 59 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:16.800 New Yard. Some of these cities are very heavily reliant on the industry, 60 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:20.319 especially Los Angeles. There are many of us are doffing parts of the 61 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:26.000 issue. But then also there are restaurants. There are you know, catering 62 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:32.360 in restaurants, hospitality, um stores, clothing stores, retail um, dry 63 00:04:32.399 --> 00:04:36.800 cleaners, you know, tailors, dressmakers, there are all these things that 64 00:04:38.040 --> 00:04:45.560 continually spos going and ensually going that support the industry. Um, it's a 65 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:48.199 problem that means that we're not having anything come out. Then they have something 66 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:54.959 coming out that we happing without too um and be silent, and the WGA 67 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:59.079 has gone the sprice we on. This will be twelve weeks beginning as it 68 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:05.399 starts today. Week one begins. Well, he struck half last week, 69 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:12.800 so this begins a full week for them striking a SAG after him. I 70 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:16.600 think people don't or if they don't, there's sometimes I don't care about actors 71 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:18.879 who cares about their mom. I'm okay, I guess you don't care. 72 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:25.959 But any industry that employs people, there should be equity amongst the people. 73 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:30.160 You should get paid a decent wage and have good health care. That's how 74 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:31.959 I feel about any industry, no matter what it is. I don't care 75 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:36.240 if it's UPS and Amazon, I don't care if it's medical, I don't 76 00:05:36.279 --> 00:05:40.720 care if it's at your cultural whatever, you should have at least the basics 77 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:45.720 and about not even said of the people in this industry don't even make enough 78 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:50.120 money as an ever changing industry, which always as technology is changing, there's 79 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:56.040 Hervey and I of course not just that there's streaming services, there's more money 80 00:05:56.079 --> 00:06:00.720 being made, more opportunities. But still there are thousands of thousands of people 81 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:03.800 in this industry. Writers, actress, producers, directors. We all work 82 00:06:04.279 --> 00:06:09.000 gig to gig, job to job, product to project. We are check 83 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:14.480 to check, check to check. We choose that way, of course, 84 00:06:14.519 --> 00:06:18.600 because we love this business and we're creatives and we try to have so it 85 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:21.519 doesn't matter if we choose to live this way or not, but we would 86 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:28.279 like to have money and get paid for our creativity, the creativity that you 87 00:06:28.439 --> 00:06:31.079 enjoy. And so that's yeah, they're not even asking for a lot. 88 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:36.199 Most people are making under the twenty six thousand dollars a year, SOEO will 89 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:41.759 get even health benefits, that's what's crazy. So they'll have two or three 90 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:48.319 jobs. Not my colleagues that you know, don't even have that don't do 91 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:50.879 this full time. I do this full time. I liked that I do 92 00:06:50.920 --> 00:06:55.199 it full time. Love people don't do it full time. And also folks 93 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:58.839 who are like, we don't need house for reward shows, let's taking money 94 00:06:58.839 --> 00:07:01.600 out of my mouth. I appreciate it. I'm like, I'm a host. 95 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:05.879 I'm a paid host. Some shows do need hosts, and they need 96 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:11.600 somebody to be the ring leader and ring master and move things along and give 97 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:15.959 some levity and brevity in between and between moments. Um, a good host. 98 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:18.560 You guys have all seen them. They're really good. They could add 99 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:25.360 to and really add to an award show. Um, yes, there are 100 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:28.040 a couple of wards shows. Appigtment and need them is bad. But again, 101 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:31.160 hostings profession and it's not easily and everybody can do it. People think 102 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:34.319 they can do it, but everybody can do it. And that's that's to 103 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:36.399 get money out that that's the job that I can't get. I'd love to 104 00:07:36.439 --> 00:07:41.240 host the MS one day or the Oscars, and I'm gonna love to do 105 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:42.839 that. But you just say take away the host we don't care about. 106 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:46.279 They don't need them anyway, just to have an award show. I'm sorry, 107 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:48.680 don't look, I'm not down for that, not at all. That 108 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:51.319 doesn't work for me either, because that's taking money out of my mouth. 109 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:58.759 There's a lot of professions here all the way from backhouse work to data entry 110 00:07:58.759 --> 00:08:05.480 and everything that's affected by these strikes. Someone's making lots of money and it 111 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:09.720 ain't us. So we got to feed this out and say so take the 112 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:11.680 A list actors out of it and all that kind of stuff. That's a 113 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:16.560 separate thing. It's just for the majority of the business. I live a 114 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:18.759 day to day so I know this for a fact, and I see people's 115 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:22.240 checks and things. I get it UM in terms like you know, a 116 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:26.399 job that doesn't help any doesnt help anything either. It's like if you're your 117 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:28.720 professional or you're a nurse and you love your job, you'll make enough money. 118 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:33.840 You'll tell nurse, we'll get no job, Go go work in retail. 119 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:35.919 It's like you're a nurse, you want to work a nursing so you 120 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:39.080 want to work as if you're a writer, you want to write. And 121 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:46.120 I just had to get my two stents because I'm a supporter both both Joga 122 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:50.759 and sand after strike. And there are things that I'm not doing in solidary 123 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:52.720 because I'm not a remember yet but I want to be remember at some point. 124 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:56.799 Uh. And there's some things that it's out a principle I'm not doing. 125 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:01.960 There are things I'm adjusting too and hope to continue adjust to. UM. 126 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:09.000 These are sacrifices, but I take sacrifices because I believe in folks having 127 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:16.399 equal again, decent pay, equal opportunity, and and good healthcare. Folks, 128 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:20.960 I just had to re up my healthcare and they had a phone interview 129 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:22.399 and I was had to set it all this stuff. It's a lot where 130 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:26.840 we need it. We're all getting older, we all need it. Um, 131 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:28.879 So I just want to I just want to get my You always get 132 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:31.480 my two cents. And that's what's been in my mind this week. Um. 133 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:35.879 You know, my heart goes out to everyone who's striking. Um, 134 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:39.639 you go online and fightest places you can go to help with the street wall 135 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:43.399 strike because they're gonna need they gonna need it. It's hot as f out 136 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:46.519 here in Los Angeles. Um, if you have umbrellas, parasols, drive 137 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:52.200 by water, drop off water, they're everywhere. Go if you're online, 138 00:09:52.240 --> 00:09:54.600 fine places, but look up, look at the studios. Those are they're 139 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:58.799 they're there, Sony, Paramount, Burbang, every they're they're out there, 140 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:03.279 Netflix, look up the studios and drive by Punk, the Hornets, Alderity 141 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:07.200 Show, mature. At least you have some compassion to them. Give out 142 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:11.320 water, give out food, pizzas, whatever, do whatever you can to 143 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:13.120 help out. If you don't live here, there's funds you look for. 144 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:18.480 Support their channels. Some of them say they actually have other things they can 145 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:24.759 work on. Support that stuff. That's kind of my thing, so do 146 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:26.039 what you can. I have done that, so I'm going to continue to 147 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:31.840 support my friends. I'm James alors A fifty plus on JLJ Media, on 148 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:35.799 YouTube, or on any streaming service platform audio. Take to you next time.