Sean Baker
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171 appearances
10 recordings
4 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard May 2025
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And the president is calling us up saying, you know, this is what we want to do. I think it's I think it's a pretty good start. It's more than we've gotten in the past. And like I said, the Democrats were in charge for 16 out of the last 20 years.
Well, it's a global problem because it's the greediness of these studios and some of these actors that make a lot more money overseas than they would here. But I look at the film industry in the United States. And my father worked in the film industry in Boston. He was a transportation coordinator for the Teamsters Union. So I know a little bit about it.
I look at the film industry as we have some of the most creative people in in the world in the United States that have been making movies for hundreds of years. And I look at the film industry in America as like Major League Baseball is America's sport. You can't put the Boston Red Sox in Great Britain and call them the Boston Red Sox, right?
So, you know, people should look at filmmaking as the same as they would look at America's sport. We are at the forefront of We have a great opportunity to create hundreds upon thousands of jobs.
And the film industry not only creates hundreds of thousands of jobs, there's also a residual benefit or indirect benefit from all the goods and services, supplies, restaurants, hotels within the United States that employ millions of people. So that's the thought process. I mean, Robert De Niro, I mean, I've seen some of his antics. I was a big fan of his.
But I'm a big fan of keeping American people working. And again, American films are right up there with American baseball. It's American.
Well, I think it's a great example of, hooray for me, fuck everybody else. Because if you look at average Hollywood actors, and we supported SAG, Screen Actors Guild, on their strike, there's only 4% or 5% of actors making the Robert De Niro, that type of money. Most people that film a movie, you give 35% to your agent, to whatever other payout you have to make. Your PR.
Yeah, your manager, PR, and everything else, right? So at the end of the day, These folks, they make a 16-week movie. The average person that's an actor or an actress makes a movie 16 weeks. They're making the minimal, and they're unemployed in 16 weeks. So it's easy for him to say or to get on his soapbox and pontificate about creativity and everything else. The guy's worth $200 million.
And you got some poor stiff that's actually very talented trying to make a living, grind out a living in L.A. or New York. I mean, you know, again, talk about not being in touch.
And I guarantee you, if it came to Robert De Niro working behind a strike to make some money, there'd be clear choice he would cross that picket line because he's actually crossing a picket line right now by going overseas and doing American film work where it should be done in America, not overseas.
Well, I think he's spot on as far as American companies doing work overseas. You can create these jobs and infrastructure in the United States. And, you know, I think the problem is, you know, you get back to the corporate greed and the wage disparity between, you know, the CEOs and the people that are actually providing the labor in the United States.
Although it's probably it's much cheaper to go overseas and do it. I don't think it's that cheap. It should be viewed as being cheaper. I think bring those jobs back here. Take a little bit more off your bottom line and give it to your workers, and I think it will be fine. I mean that's what we're supposed to be.
CEOs shouldn't be making 2,000 times more than an American worker, especially when the American worker is doing all the work. So I think it's a great narrative.
Right. The profit margin would shrink. There's no doubt about that. But you'd actually be providing opportunity for people in this country, opportunity to have, you know, nice homes, good educations for their children. What's wrong with reinvesting in the American people, even if, you know, cost you a little bit more in a profit?
And, you know, look, you know, I think the one thing is and Trump was criticized saying he was beholden to Wall Street while he was running. Clearly, he hasn't given two shits about Wall Street right now because of, you know, he's announced these tariffs. He's announced a lot of things that have shook Wall Street. And it's a good thing. I mean, I talk about it all the time.
I'm like, I care about Main Street before Wall Street any day of the week. And that's where people should be focused in these corporations that American based but provide their labor in a third world nation. That's what they should be focused on as well. Main Street, not Wall Street.
Yeah, there's no doubt we have an abundance of people available for work in this country. We've got the brightest and best. And this is just an excuse by corporate American corporate greed on why they want to pay people less. Because, you know, the reality of it is there's plenty of people that need good paying jobs. There's plenty of Americans in this country that could do a lot of this work.
So I don't buy that bullshit at all. And let me ask you something. Are they putting ads in the Mexican paper to having these people come over here and say, hey, we got these jobs? No, they're actually trafficking people over here to do these jobs so they can expand their profits on their balance sheet. There's nothing wrong with that. I mean, those corporations should be fined.
Like you said, they should be humiliated. And if someone doesn't act accordingly, they should be shamed.
Well, that guy, I mean, clearly he's got on a little supplemental program. You know, he looked like he looked like Patsy Weber. And now all of a sudden he's trying to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. So, no, but the reality of it, look, it's I refer to Amazon as a white collar crime syndicate.
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