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WGA vs AMPTP: David Zaslav's Quarter-Billion Payday
from A Victimless Crime with Yannis Pappas | The Tim Dillon Show #359 · #359
4 min
Tim breaks down the writers' strike standoff, mocking David Zaslav's massive self-approved salary and comparing the stalled negotiations to an endless war like Afghanistan.
- Tim opens on the writer strike as an endless crisis comparable to the Afghanistan war.
- Rich people live incredibly boring lives, which is why billionaires like Zaslav are drawn to wild content and entertainment.
- Tim reports that the AMPTP held a meeting with the WGA negotiating team, which he describes as hard-core old Brooklyn Marxists.
- David Zaslav paid himself a quarter billion dollars and is offended at how mean people have been to him about it.
- The merger of Warner Brothers and Discovery was a brilliant idea that justified Zaslav's massive self-awarded salary.
- Zaslav gets booed at college appearances, with students chanting demands to pay the writers.
- The AMPTP's negotiation offer falls flat when presented to the WGA, which refuses to meet with them going forward.
- Tim sees no end to the strike, comparing it to Russia-Ukraine and Afghanistan in terms of duration and resolution.
WGA strikeWriters Guild of AmericaTed SarandosDavid ZaslavWarner Bros. DiscoveryAlex JonesAdam Conover