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Mini Rooms, AI Writers, and No Dutch People
from The Negotiator | The Tim Dillon Show #345 · #345
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Continuing through the WGA demand list, he jokes about "mega rooms" for writers, mocks the idea of banning AI versus banning nationalities of writers, and riffs on Snapchat 'born different' style content needing MBA minimums.
- Tim proposes converting mini rooms into mega rooms with five or six writers in a larger space, but maintaining no additional pay.
- Post-production compensation compared to late-term abortion on a policy chart.
- Tim counters that writers can only be guaranteed appropriate compensation for one week during the entire production process, any week of their choosing.
- NBA minimums applied to comedy variety programs on new media like Snapchat shows featuring people with physical deformities and their wives.
- Tim rejects increased health fund contributions because too many writers in Silver Lake and Echo Park are smoking cigarettes.
- AI cannot realistically be eliminated from writing rooms the way other things can be, but Dutch people could easily be excluded instead.
- Proposal to exclude Eastern Europeans from writer's rooms because they creep everyone out, presented as a more negotiable alternative to banning AI.
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