SAG-AFTRA

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Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California Local.

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When fall comes back around, there's a sense of a reset.

Executive producer Michael Goodfriend.

This podcast was recorded under a SAG-AFTRA agreement.

The cast is as follows.

James Carpenter as Titus Andronicus.

We also were able to establish major commitments to domestic production so that workers in California and in the United States will work more on movies, including right here in LA and in Hollywood.

That's why IATSE and SAG-AFTRA and the Teamsters and others support this settlement.

And then finally, we were able to get a... editorial independence board to be put in place with respect to ensuring that there is journalistic integrity and fact-based, objective, unbiased reporting at CBS and CNN.

So all those things put together, I believe, are a benefit for California and for workers and for everyday people.

That one's a stand-up.

Are you part of the SAG? Are you part of the Screen Actors Guild now? Not yet, but I've gotten calls

this morning.

Let's just say this.

And she's like, okay, I'm on it.

It's the SAG-AFTRA health plan, because we're in a union, and it's great health insurance.

And she confirmed.

It says you're covered.

Yes.

So it was 6 a.m. And I called our insurance company.

But they're on the West Coast because it's SAG-AFTRA.

They're on the West Coast.

Yes, sir.

I am, by the grace of God, an official Screen Actors Guild of America stunt performer as of...

March of this year.

So I've officially been a member of the union for that amount of time.

I just love doing that.

But then also...

As a member of the Screen Actors Guild, this was a union project, and so there was a stunt coordinator where we needed two actors to be thrown in for a scene really quick.

And some way, somehow, the scheduling of finding these two people fell through the cracks.

So it was 6 a.m. And I called our insurance company.

But they're on the West Coast because it's SAG-AFTRA.

They're on the West Coast.

So they said they don't open till Pacific time, which is much later.

Do you remember that night?

I have that photo and what, like every time it comes up, like, you know, in a photo reel or a memory, it makes me laugh because it was, you meet Marcus Dixon was there, right? But yeah, the Fran Drescher before, was it before she was president of SAG-AFTRA? Yeah, it

was before.

She was there for some like sitcom that she was on.