Wide Awakes

1:39:18 You know, I say now as I speak you may recreate me when i'm gone and make money off of me. Please! Well yeah we'll see what happens with the Currie Estate. The Currie Estate? Yeah the Currie Estate... We're pissed off okay Here's SAG-AFTRA to round this out. Looks like Dave, this is the writers and the screen actors guild but not everybody is here I don't think the directors guild is set yet We are following developing news now SAG-AFTRA has reached a tentative agreement with major Hollywood studios avoiding a repeat of strikes from just three years ago NBC4's Macy Jenkins is live outside By the way, The Troll Room was asking can we do it now?

1:40:07 Well, under... I'd have to approve it now. If you can do it now we can split the process It won't be as good Well if it is? It won't be as good Come on Okay Hi, Kathy and Jonathan. Well listen we will not know what's in that agreement until the SAG National Board has a chance to review it one of the biggest issues just like it was three years ago protections against AI which is getting smarter and more advanced This cinematic showdown between Hollywood A-listers Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise drew

1:40:47 millions of views on social media earlier this year. And harsh critiques because this is completely AI generated. They're taking the likeness of major performers like Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, and they're just able to replicate it in seconds. It's a major concern for SAG-AFTRA actors like Chuck Slavin one he hopes is addressed in the tentative agreement reached Saturday between SAG and the AMPTP, The Alliance Of Motion Picture And Television Producers Well, I have to tell you a little concern. Overall, I think the future is rapidly changing and I think that we certainly need to protect image likeness when it comes to AI. We need to ensure that members get royalties and residuals on the work they're doing. Scanning is a major threat. A tentative deal avoids a repeat of 2023 when SAG-AFTRA's 160,000 plus member went on strike for four months demanding fair pay and protections against AI stealing their livelihood

1:41:43 It comes just one month after the Writers Guild of America reached a four-year deal with the AMPTP. Historically, these contracts have been three year deals but in exchange for adding the fourth year in the WGA's recent agreement The union received a $321 million infusion into its health fund Looking at how fast technology is advancing A four-year deal locks us into a disadvantage So you all consider home being sick? Well that's great No, Hollywood loses. They lose... they lose. That's just the way it is. Well you gotta lose for sure. Yeah but they've already kind of lost I mean they have no stories everything is a sequel what is that? What is the new sequel coming out something another new sequel everything's a sequel yeah everything they ran out of ideas

1:42:35 No, I did happen. How did that happen? Let me ask you how did that happen it has never happened before they were making movies back in the silent era In the 20s and 30s there were all kinds of great movies at 40s great movie 50s Great movies set 60s and 70s especially the 70s tremendous films what happened too many movies being made There's not enough not enough. They're not doing a bit. I wouldn't say there's a ton of them being made now are their Oh yeah, I think it's a short... Yeah no they're going straight to Netflix in eight you know mini movies. You're right that's where that goes. Tons of crappy movies on Netflix. Where it should be an hour and a half movie then turn into eight hours and call it a series And then if it gets enough then they'll do another series We are due for another Blair Witch Project one of those deals

1:43:29 Some kids come along and do something that blows everybody away. You're a cheap yeah, yeah That's gonna happen what do you make of the this Epstein suicide note? Well here's a clip no hold on second Here we go. I got it. New Tonight did accuse sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein write a suicide note before attempting to take his own life, the New York Times reporting that a note may exist and is being held under seal by a federal judge. Epstein allegedly writing It's time to say goodbye according to this man convicted murderer Nicholas Tartaglione, a former NYPD officer who shared a cell with Epstein in 2019

1:44:08 Tartaglione said something similar in a podcast last year. Jeffrey Epstein wrote a suicide note He says he discovered the note after Epstein's apparent suicide attempt weeks before his actual death It was in my book, yeah when I got back into the cell and opened my book to read there it was Tartaglione adding, it said something like FBI looked into me for months and found nothing. NBC News has not seen the note and The Times says it has not either in a statement the DOJ says it is hard to comment on a note It has not seen adding the department underwent an exhaustive effort to collect all records

1:44:47 Epstein's death, which the medical examiner's office declared a suicide has been the subject of intense scrutiny with many speculating without proof that Epstein was murdered. A suicide note could potentially dispel the conspiracies. The New York Times is asking the federal court to unseal the alleged suicide note which is caught up in Chartaglione legal proceeding. The times are arguing he talked about the note in that podcast and public interest in Epstein is immense I got an interview with Steve Eder. He's the one of the reporters on the byline for that story about The Note, he was on CNN listening to this Now The Times reports that the alleged suicide note was sealed by a federal judge as part of the Cellmates criminal case

1:45:32 My source on this tonight is on the byline of this story, the investigative reporter for The New York Times Steve Eder. And thank you sir for being here because I want to start with how this possible note was recovered and the cellmate apparently says he found a note in his cell tucked into a graphic novel How did it end up locked away by a judge? What's a graphic novel, is that a comic book? Yeah. It takes a circuitous path I guess to being locked away from a judge but basically the short of it is that the cellmate says he discovered the note in the days after Epstein was found injured in his cell and he turned it over to his lawyers

1:46:10 His lawyers, apparently according to a document that we reviewed tried to authenticate it. Weren't able to right away and then it ended up being moved over to his criminal case not the Epstein case but this other case that was playing out kind of parallel and ended up sort of sequestered from the Epstein proceedings in this whole other separate case for years now And in that case the judge put the letter this purported note under seal If you're interested, I have another clip that explains the process of how it got under seal. Yes please!

1:46:48 Why is it locked up in a courthouse? Like why wasn't it released as part of the Epstein document? Yes, so even before that John good morning to you. I think it's important to discuss whether its authentic or not. I want to get to that but just tell me why it's locked up first. So what happened this is that it was under seal and apparently judges have vast discretion with respect to whether they're putting something on under seal which means in the public's view. It is not in the court records if you go and right now we have a system uh, in federal courts state court two where you can literally go into the docket and look at it variety of materials well there are some materials that are sensitive that are not going to be in that docket

1:47:24 because a judge in that judge's discretion will seal it. That is what they did here, remember this involves Tartaglione who is he? He was the person convicted, he was Jeffrey Epstein cellmate and he ultimately was convicted for four quadruple murder and as result of that sharing a cell he purportedly, Mr.Tartaglione found the note reported to his lawyers, he had about 18 of them by the way over the course time and they got involved the lawyers did with respect hey what should we do with the note how do we authenticate the note should be put to know on the seal it became a subject of a lot of controversy attorneys argued was attorney-client privilege incident today communications in them seeking advice and will jeffrey have seen claim that

1:48:06 I actually, Tartaglione his cellmate killed him or tried to kill him and so what do we do? And so the judge ultimately said it's going to be away from public view. It's going to be in a vault in the federal courthouse and it has remained there for all this time. Basically a judge has under his purview right now involved in a separate case which is why he was not part of the Epstein files per se and the source here this is from a cell mate charged with Four murders, quadruple murder. Who said he found the note and is the only person we know so far to tell us what was on it time to say goodbye? So the credibility of the source... Yeah John I think that's important to talk about and at the time he was being charged now He's convicted any serving these four life sentences

1:48:51 And so you have to question what we call the veracity. Is it something that we could credit the fact that he said it? That I found this note, It said time to say goodbye and had a smiley face What am I going to do now burst out in tears They've done nothing meaning indicating what was on that particular note Well, I don't think this means very much. It's interesting though how that happened Yeah, well just kind of fascinating I guess I didn't realize it So easy to ditch stuff There's another, um... Man you predicted this so early on. About parents getting uh...