• How Kate got her start as a playwright – in her parent’s dinner theater!
• WATCHING JESSICA FLETCHER: How “Murder She Wrote” star Angela Lansbury gave Kate the mystery writing bug.
• Why did writers overwhelmingly support the Strike Authorization Vote?
• Why is this strike so different from the last one in 2007-2008?
• Is it fair that streaming profits have gone up exponentially, but writer pay has gone down 24% since 2014?
• “I AM THE STRIKE CAPTAIN NOW!”  How Kate and other strike captains organize hundreds of picketing writers every day – right in front of all the major studios in Los Angeles!
• What do the writers want? Are the Studios willing – or able – to meet their demands? How does AI figure in? What does all this mean for women, BIPOC, disabled and LGBTQ writers?
• And what happens if the actors in SAG-AFTRA go on strike, too?
• Does writing end when the script is finished? Nope. Kate discusses how the writing task continues – on set, in post-production and all the way to your screen.
• HONK THOSE HORNS!  Learn how you can support the WGA, striking writers, teamsters, IATSE crew and actors.
• What is a “mini-room”? Why is it such a sticking point in negotiations? And how are they leading to the end of TV writing as we know it?
• Guess what the 80s TV Ladies learned from Jane Fonda on the picket line? (Spoiler: Actors are ready to strike.)

So, join Susan and Sharon – and Kate – as they hit the Hollywood picket lines, strike back at the $3 Trillion dollar Apple Empire, and get to the bottom of our East Coast/West Coast “Hot Labor Summer”!