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Speaker 2: Good morning, and welcome to the Daily os. It's Monday,

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Speaker 2: the seventeenth of July. I'm Sam Kazlowski.

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Speaker 3: I'm Zara Seidler.

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Speaker 2: The Union for Hollywood Actors has gone on strike for

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Speaker 2: the first time in forty three years.

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Speaker 4: One hundred and sixty thousand performers from TV and film

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Speaker 3: What this effectively means is that Hollywood as we know

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Speaker 2: Both writers and actors say the transition to streaming has

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Speaker 2: The Coalition have retained the Queensland seat of Fadden after

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Speaker 2: Nearly one third of the population of the US are

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Speaker 3: And the good news effective immediately, there will now be

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Speaker 3: cricket events, including at World Cup tournaments. That is some

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Speaker 3: good news for your Monday.

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Speaker 2: Lucy Tassel, Welcome to your podcast debut.

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Speaker 5: Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: It's so fun to have you in front of the

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Speaker 2: Behind the mic. You're our full time fact checker, so

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Speaker 5: Today we're talking about the actors strike. I love this

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Speaker 2: Said the scene for me. When did this strike begin?

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Speaker 5: This strike began Thursday midnight LA time, so early Friday

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Speaker 5: I can totally understand that perception, because for most of us,

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Speaker 5: previously was just releasing movies, running a streaming platform, hosting content,

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Speaker 5: producing original content that goes on. All of these things

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Speaker 5: incur costs in a way that's more complicated than simply

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Speaker 5: we make a movie, we release a movie, we get

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Speaker 5: of living. Crisis has meant a lot of people pulling

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Speaker 5: their subscriptions from these various streaming services.

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Speaker 2: So what do you think is going to happen now?

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Speaker 2: I mean, we find ourselves in somewhat uncharged territory. What

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Speaker 2: will the next couple of weeks look like?

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Speaker 5: It's a very interesting position to be in. So the

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Speaker 5: writers have also been on strike since May, so actors

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Speaker 5: and writers are on strike at the same time. That

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Speaker 5: effectively means almost nothing can be produced and made. Certainly,

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Speaker 5: under strike rules, no one can go to a set,

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Speaker 5: no one can pitch a film or an episode, of

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Speaker 5: something or write it. No one can promote it or

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Speaker 5: So these effects are not necessarily going to be clear immediately.

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Speaker 5: We're going to have to wait and see. It does

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Speaker 5: seem to me that since the writers have been on

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Speaker 5: strike since May with absolutely no sign of slowing down,

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Speaker 5: the actors could hold on for a long time.

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Speaker 2: Well it have any change for say, you going to

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Speaker 2: the movies? Like, is Barbie now not going to be on?

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Speaker 5: Barbie's fine, Barbie's locked and loaded. It's just that we

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Speaker 5: won't be getting any more Margo, Robbie and Ryan Gosling

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Speaker 5: play with Puppies interviews because they're not allowed to promote

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Speaker 5: it anymore. But Barbie's going to come out. It's what

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Speaker 5: will happen next year. Even assuming that the writers and

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Speaker 5: the actors strikes get resolved within a matter of months,

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Speaker 5: that's a long period of time where nothing has been made.

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Speaker 5: So it might be a year before we suddenly realize, Hm,

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Speaker 5: there hasn't been a movie come out in a little bit.

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Speaker 5: It will be because yeah, they weren't allowed to make them.

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Speaker 5: During the American summer of twenty twenty three, we might

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Speaker 5: just have a really thin oscars in twenty twenty five.

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