editor's note: Roger Daltry and Josh Brolin interviews were filmed at the Shootout studios on the same day. Roger Daltry will be appearing in an upcoming episode of Shootout.

What do Roger Daltry and Josh Brolin have in common? They had to cross the same picket line of writers striking in front of our studio. In another day and perhaps a different union, the picketers would have crowded them and me out or at least flexed their muscle of intimidation. These folks, despite the seriousness of their undertaking, had boxed lunches (undoubtedly some catered) and many had four dollar Starbucks lattes they sipped as they strolled in front of the gate. This seems very orderly and both Brolin and Daltry had little openly to add to the dialogue of the strike (yet having little practical effect on their life). But we will look back, if this confrontation does not come quickly to a soft landing, to find that this strike and work stoppage (unlike the one that occurred nearly twenty years ago that lasted nearly five months) will have more profound long lasting effects.

Back then there were fewer alternatives for the audience -- no internet or huge game audience. This, combined with cheaper and more abundant reality shows and game shows, could really put a crimp on the writers (and more significantly the advertisers) who already are jumping the TV ship for the internet. Both may never come back. This is a cautionary tale, but we should all be active in our own rescue and there is some commonality of interests that should motivate the parties to some accommodation and speed.

Flash forward...we need someone to write, direct, and star in a good ending and these folks know how important that is. I want the writers on the other side of the gate quickly and the rhetoric to be on the pages -- not in front of the stages.

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