Hey, this is John.

Today's episode is one from the vault, an encore episode from May 2015, which is good lord more than 10 years ago.

So in this, we tackle one big single topic, bad movies and how they happen.

But first, Drew, we have some news.

We do.

So Highland Pro, the app we both use for writing everything, and which our company also coincidentally makes, has a new feature out today that listeners should check out. And this actually stemmed from situations that you and I were encountering all the time, which is like, I will write something and I'll send it to you for proofreading. And it's just kind of a hassle. Yeah, we would do revision mode. So I would turn on revision mode and any little typos or things I would find. It would do starred revisions, but you're sending two different documents back and then I have to re-save it in a different name and then you have to go through. Yes. It was, you know, a nice idea, but it was really just a hassle. And what we did before this was I would print it downstairs and you would mark up the printed copy. That's right. We did prints. What I really wanted was basically what I have with my daughter, which is she's off in college now, but even when she was in high school, she would write everything in Google Docs, and she would send me a link to the Google Doc, and I could put my little notes in the margins of the Google Doc, and it was just really easy. You're passing a URL.

What I really wanted was an ability to have a Highland document that also just had an URL

so I could send it to Drew for marking stuff up or to send it to anybody for looking at things.

And so that's a new feature we are rolling out today called Highland Fling. And so a fling is a very short duration,

a temporary web document of whatever you're working on that a person can on the other end

just put notes on it. Just a little fling. Just a little fling. Yeah. It's meant to be temporary.

It's not publishing it forever. Yeah. Not a full relationship. It's very much like how Instagram stories, they're just there for a short period of time. You set the duration and they go away forever. But what's so handy about it is because it is native to Highland, a person can leave their notes on the web document and it shows up in real time back in your Highland document, which is crazy. But people don't have to have Highland to leave notes, which is also fantastic. Yeah. I've been lucky I've got to use it for the last few months. And it's so easy. People just jump into it immediately. Yeah. So we've been using it for Pascold once. It works really well. The folks on our Discord community have been using it. But now it's actually in the app for real, so everyone can experiment with it themselves.

So if you're already using Highland, it's just update your app. It's going to be in there. If you've not used Highland yet, test it out. We're on the App Store and you can see how it works. We'll put a link to something in the show notes for a Fling that you can look at that'll temporarily exist, but then it'll disappear after seven days.

That'd be great.

Yeah. So check out Fling. that you can look at. That'll temporarily exist, but then it'll disappear after seven days.

That'd be great. Yeah. So check out Fling. Drew, talk to us about this episode. So at 197,

why are we going back 10 years? I've had a lot of emails come through from people sort of asking,

why did this movie or TV show like let me down? There's a lot of answers to those questions, and I think people kind of want a silver bullet, but actually it's a lot more complex. So I was looking through sort of what we'd said, and I found this episode, and it's a great in-depth look at how things can go wrong in movies or TV shows, and it's pretty evergreen. Yeah, the concept of, like, movies that don't work and why they don't work, that is an evergreen topic. But the episode is from 10 years ago, it's everything else relevant and timely? We got some not-so evergreen things. So we don't have USB drives anymore, obviously. We said we never do YouTube. Ah, yes. We lied. Yeah. Check out our YouTube.

We've got YouTube.

We've got YouTube.

Search for Scriptenost podcast.

There's like fun time capsule-y stuff too.

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