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Hello everybody, I just wanted to make

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a quick announcement on the podcast

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feeds. Obviously, I've posted this up on

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all of our social media. I posted this on YouTube,

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all that kind of stuff, but I just wanted to

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put it out there because I know there's a few of you that only

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listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts or

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whatever it may be. So

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basically, we can't release any episodes

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for the time being because of the SAG-AFTRA

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strike. Basically, what

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it is is that several of the cast members

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are hopefuls who want to join

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the union in the future and the union

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has put out rules that have said that basically

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anybody who participates in work

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that promotes struck content, which

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Power Rangers and X-Men are both included

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in that because they're owned by Netflix

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and Disney respectively, who are the two big ones in

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streaming. So

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anybody that participates in that will be

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blacklisted from joining the union in the future.

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I don't agree with that stance. I agree

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with the cause that they are fighting for, but I

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don't think that these

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rules or guidelines are particularly fair to

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people like us who

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are just trying to make their own

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shows, their own versions of things. We're not necessarily trying

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to promote the originals, but I also see the other

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side of it is, you know, it'll drive people

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to go and, you know, sign up to Netflix and watch

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the original shows to compare it to ours, all that kind

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of stuff. So for that reason,

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I can't release any more episodes. We will continue to produce

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episodes. I will continue to

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write episodes. The cast will continue to record

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episodes. So hopefully what will happen

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is if this really drags on, we'll come back

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and we'll have, you know, a two or three episode

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backlog where I can just be like,

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right, okay, here we go. Week

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one, episode eight, week two, episode nine,

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you know, or in X-Men's case, it'd

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be, you know, season four episodes, one,

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two, three, one week after another, you know,

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hopefully that's an ideal world. That'd be the case.

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Hopefully it's over sooner rather than later, but

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I just wanted to let you know that we're not

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going anywhere. The shows will come

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back, but

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I think you guys understand my reasoning

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because if I do decide

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that I want to continue with these

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shows before the strike finishes,

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I'd have to replace all the cast members

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who are SAG eligible. And that does include

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some of the best members of our cast and it would negatively

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affect the shows. So yeah,

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I hope you understand my reasonings and understand

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the reasons of the cast. Like we said, I

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don't agree with it personally from the

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union standpoint, but it

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is what it is and we just have to abide

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by it. So we'll be back as soon

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as we can. As soon as the strike is over, you

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know, I'll get episodes to you. We've got bonus

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episodes, we've got all sorts of stuff. I will continue

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to post stuff on the Patreon, we'll continue

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to do all the extra content and I

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will continue to post episodes when they're

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done on the Patreon because,

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you know, there's no way that we could

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promote it to only, you know, 20 to 50

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people are ever going to see that. So it's,

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you know, it's behind a paywall and nobody's

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going to get into trouble for that one. So when

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I do finish scenes and episodes, even in an unfinished

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form, I'll post them up on there, but

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they won't be sent out for general lease until

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the strike is done. All right. Thank you,

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everybody. And we'll see you as soon

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as we can.