Deadline Strike Talk

Amazing show! Thanks for such a deep dive! Just wanted to add that the name of the community evicted to build to Central Park was SENECA VILLAGE - a mainly black community with some immigrant families who had built their own homes!

Thank you Billy for being my companion over this difficult time. I am a cinematographer turned director. You entertained, informed and educated me in immeasurable ways. You humanized this complex subject that left me missing the people I love collaborating with. Your guest are heavy hitters offering spectacular insight but the most eye opening episode was the penultimate episode with Fran, Meredith and Todd. I must have forwarded the link to dozens of filmmaking friends. I extol the renaming of the amptp to amptS. Yes, producers are collaborators. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

This has been an absolutely wonderful podcast and source of strength, solidarity and information during the strikes. Thank you so much for all the time and effort put into it!!! I disagree with you that SAG got the “best they could” in terms of AI. I actually feel they gave away way too much paving the way for synthetic performers to become normalized, but aside from that, I loved everything else. Bravo!

Thank you all, for having hosted this podcast series since day one of the strike, back in May. I write this as the actors strike has finally ended after over 110 days, and I myself was a strike captain volunteer each weekday these last few months since July. The amount of comraderie that I felt picketing alongside my union and the WGA and other union members was extraordinary and I’ll never forget it. So often as working actors on the low end like me… we spend so much time searching for work and waiting for opportunities to be presented to us to work and competing with our peers but the one beautiful thing about this strike was I never felt ALONE. I’ve been an actor for 20 years and it’s been a very lonely and isolating endeavor at times, but marching and picketing and volunteering and tuning into the weekly panels hosted here gave me a sense of community within this industry I’ve searched for my entire life. Im thrilled this has ended, but in a way I am mourning my weekday schedule suddenly ending, and my tuning in weekly to listen to this auditory recap and panel. I just hope moving forward we may carry the sense of community we found within the strike, and a bit part of that was this wonderful podcast. Thank you.