"Pickard Voice Recording" - MP3 #12

The conversation discusses the impact of strikes on the media industry. The speaker believes that the effects of the strikes haven't fully manifested yet, but there is a slowdown in production. Independent and overseas productions are still being made. However, promotional and marketing elements have suffered due to the writers' strike. Late-night shows like Stephen Colbert's and Seth Meyers' have stopped, and once the writers return, actors cannot promote their movies and TV shows like before. They can only have conversations and promote books. Here's a snippet of Professor Pickard and I's conversation on the subject. As a consistent consumer of entertainment media yourself, have you already seen a shift in media resulting from these strikes, or do you think they're still impending and that the impacts of it haven't quite reached what we're seeing today? I think you could say it's still that process of the slowing of the wheels still haven't caught up because there's still production being done. I mean, it's like after a kid has, there's certain content still being made because of independent production or production overseas that's still being made. So I think we're still going to have things made. The thing that's lacking for me that I've already noticed is promotional and marketing elements because the writers' strike, because all these late night shows have writers and they all stopped. Stephen Colbert's show stopped, Seth Meyers' show stopped, everybody's show stopped. But then once the writers come back, the actors can't go on their shows and promote their movies and television shows like they used to do. They can promote their books and they can just have a conversation, but they can't necessarily go in there and go, hey, Deadpool 3 is coming out.