Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, coming at you from hot and humid L.A. We’ve reached the point of this strike-addled August where actors and writers are praying for early-morning picket duty, and the moguls are praying their friends and relatives don’t post pictures on their yachts.

Today it’s a notebook dump, all-Thursday Thoughts edition of WIH. As always, if you’ve been forwarded this email, become a Puck member here.

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• 3 big questions for the Writers Guild meeting: I’m told the AMPTP is planning to put a revised offer/response to the WGA proposals on the table at tomorrow’s official sit-down with guild leadership. (The AMPTP declined to comment.) That leads to 3 major questions (with a hat tip to Puck contributor Jonathan Handel):

1. Will the studio proposal address mini-rooms, a success-based metric for streaming residuals, and A.I.? Those have emerged as the Big 3 wedge issues, and the WGA leadership has said they won’t do a deal unless each is addressed. I’m told this new proposal will be different from what’s been discussed previously, but how different?
2. Will the WGA continue to push new demands? Studio-side negotiators felt like the guild was moving the goalposts in last Friday’s meeting-before-the-meeting, making new health insurance asks and...