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Hello and welcome!

My name is John August. My name is Craig Mason. And this is Scripnode. It's a podcast about what?

And? Wow, so so good, so impressive. We have trained the 581 episodes. They're so well trained.

I'm so hurt by what you said. Yeah, so I wonder if I could hide it Lauren Duke for staying in our intro. Thank you Heidi.

Yeah, thanks. Thanks.

So we are here at the Austin Film Festival, which we've been to many, many times, but it's been a minute since we've been at the Austin Film Festival.

It's been three, four or five years. Something happened, but now we're in trouble. It's exciting to be back here. Craig, this afternoon we were planning the show and one of the plans was like, we were to get together for dinner.

I had not joined the dinner, so I want to know how was your dinner.

There was drinking. I have a vague sense of what will happen tonight, as I often do. But it was a lovely dinner, actually. I'm not saying that it was lovely because you weren't there.

No, no, no. I'm simply saying it was lovely despite the fact that you were not there.

The Austin Live shows tend to be a bit loose and a little bit messy. Like, the live show we didn't want to stand on was on a schedule there.

I know. I don't like that. I like a nice drunken, stupid, disorganized mess.

So originally I had a plan to be at this dinner to get drunken and stupid and messy. But then I had to do a pitch on a Friday evening for 90 minutes on Zoom.

I was just a little ridiculous. Not the ideal time to pitch a movie, so I don't know how it went. Either it's going to be announced in Deadline at some point or it will never happen.

So we'll see what happens there. Hollywood. Hollywood. Hollywood. Hollywood. We're not in Hollywood. We're in Austin, Texas.

I'm so glad to be back, honestly. And thank you guys for showing up, honestly. It does mean a lot. Thank you.

I don't know if you've ever done a live show in this room. I don't think so. We're usually at the other place.

The other place. The other place this time. I don't know what happened there. Yeah. There's lots of speculation about things that have.

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