AMCA 68
A More Civilized Age: A Star Wars Podcast
A More Civilized Age
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2023
⏱️ 129 minutes
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Summary
In case you haven't heard via our Patreon or various social feeds: AMCA is about to PIVOT. SAG-AFTRA recently released new guidelines for podcasters. Though Rebels is not a guild production, it is hosted on Disney+ and tied closely to the ongoing promotion of Ahsoka.
As such, we've been figuring out how to best continue the podcast without crossing the picket lines or promoting struck material, which we feel covering Rebels does.
To help us unpack some of the background of these strikes, we invited Adam Conover to come through this week. We dig into Hollywood labor history, the internal politics of the entertainment industry unions, and the ways that the modern influencer economy fit into all of this. It's a great conversation, and we get into some details we've never heard anywhere else.
We also end the show by talking through... and potentially deciding... what comes next for A More Civilized Age
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Let us return once more to him. Well, we're not going to be returning. Just anyway, this |
| 0:12.7 | is a more civilized age, formerly a Star Wars podcast. I'm Rob Zachini, joined by Alie |
| 0:17.5 | Accompora, Austin Walker, and Natalie Watson. We are, as always, supported by you, our listeners |
| 0:22.1 | by patreon.com slash civilized. So head over there if you'd like to support the show and |
| 0:26.5 | get access to all our Q and A episodes. Today, we welcome our guest, Adam Conover, a |
| 0:31.5 | comedian and a friend, but more importantly, for our purposes, a member of the writer's |
| 0:36.6 | guild of American West Board and a member of the negotiating committee with the Association |
| 0:40.9 | of Motion Picture and Television producers, as well as a SAG after member, two guilds currently |
| 0:46.0 | on strike, which brings us to today's topic, the strike and the strikes that have sort of |
| 0:52.5 | brought production in the entertainment industry to a near standstill across most studios. |
| 1:00.2 | And the way that has sort of touched on our work here and what we're going to be doing for |
| 1:06.1 | the duration of the strike. So Adam, you've been on the round, you've been making the rounds |
| 1:12.8 | to unpack this for a lot of folks. So I'm very grateful that you've consented to join us here |
| 1:19.6 | today and go through what I'm sure at this point. It's a topic you are very familiar with, |
| 1:25.7 | sort of rehashing for people who are just getting up to speed and what's going on. |
| 1:30.9 | Yeah, this has been my life for the last couple of months and you know, that's why I entered |
| 1:34.5 | into it because I enjoy doing it. It's a pleasure to be here as a fan and a listener of the show. |
| 1:39.2 | It's a pleasure to be here. Thank you. We have for coming. And then you were saying you're a fan. |
| 1:43.6 | I took a sip of a delicious apple like seltzer and it went down the wrong pipe as I was trying to say |
| 1:50.1 | thank you. So I mean, I listened to, I listened, I listened to you guys after watching every |
| 1:56.0 | episode of Andor and it improved my enjoyment of the show immeasurably. I do not really consume |
| 2:00.8 | much other Star Wars content. That's like the only arc that I listened to, but it was really |
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