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190: Workflows with John August

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Tech, Technology, David, User, Stephen Hackett, Sparks, How To, Help, Power, Workflow, Ios, Mac, Set Up

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2014

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Katie and David sit down with screenwriter, director and developer, John August. Thanks to MPU listener Jigar Talati for assistance with the shownotes this week!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Mac Power Users

0:18.8

podcast. I'm Katie Floyd alongside with David Sparks.

0:21.6

Welcome back David. Hi Katie Floyd.

0:23.8

Well we are both still recovering from whatever these colds are but we just could not

0:28.7

pass up the opportunity to talk to our next workflow guest with a big hat tip to our show notes writer JT for

0:36.1

recommending this guest to us. He said you absolutely positively have to have John

0:41.2

August on your show and we wrote him and he said yes.

0:45.2

So welcome John, thank you so much for joining us today.

0:48.3

It is a pleasure to be here.

0:50.3

John I have to admit I'm a little star's truck because I just love the stuff you do.

0:54.0

Oh, thank you very much.

0:55.0

If you don't know John, he's a screenwriter and director.

0:58.0

He did movies like Charlie's Angels go in and one of my favorite movies ever was Big Fish. I told you this before we started,

1:06.1

but if I was on a Desert Island, that one would be in my package because it's just so great.

1:10.3

Well, thank you very much. And Charlie Machachachra Factory, the Nines, you've just been, you've been all over the place with the great work you've been doing out there. Well, thank you very much. I've enjoyed writing them and trying to get them made.

1:24.0

Yeah, it is a challenge.

1:25.0

We did another show a few years ago with David Wayne.

1:29.0

Yeah, I guess we've done a couple now with David.

1:31.0

We should probably put those in the show notes because I think those are really good bookmarks for this show as well, David being a writer and director as well.

1:38.0

And David also is a person kind of like me who loves to make things but also loves to sort of challenge the expectations of how we're supposed to make things.

1:46.5

So I've gotten to know David, he's fantastic.

1:49.6

Yeah, and in fact you guys are really similar in a lot of ways of challenging the technology of Hollywood.

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