582 - Who Can You Trust?
Scriptnotes Podcast
John August
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
John and Craig dissect expertise and “why you should think twice or thrice before taking someone’s advice.” They look at how survivorship bias, pride, and luck should factor into how we judge sources of authority.
We answer listener questions on raising kids in LA, writers for videogames, and Megana asks about creative-comedowns.
In our bonus segment for premium members, we discuss natural disasters in Los Angeles and preparation plans.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome. My name is John August. |
| 0:04.0 | And why? Any, I mean, I S, area, GM, E, I, and impressive. |
| 0:08.6 | Thank you. This is episode 582 of Script Notes, a podcast about screenwriting and things that |
| 0:13.9 | are interesting to screenwriters. Today on the show, who can you trust? |
| 0:17.1 | An expert? Well, what is expertise? And is there success and indicated that they know |
| 0:21.6 | what they're talking about? Or were they just lucky? We'll take into that as applies |
| 0:25.9 | to writing advice and general life stuff. We'll also answer a bunch of listed questions |
| 0:29.7 | Craig because we got a lot of those. Yeah. Yeah. So many questions. |
| 0:33.3 | Yep. And our bonus segment for premium members, it's disaster. Let's talk about the |
| 0:37.4 | various natural disasters that can be fall Los Angeles. And how to think about them? |
| 0:41.4 | Well, what the easier side were the ones that won't be fall Los Angeles? |
| 0:45.2 | Yeah. Because they like shouldn't have cyclones, but sometimes we could have cyclones. |
| 0:48.4 | So at this point, anything could happen. Anything. Anything could happen. One thing that |
| 0:53.6 | will happen this week is your show will come out. Right? Finally. |
| 0:56.0 | Well, it's coming out. Yeah, because this show, yep, that's right. |
| 1:00.2 | Yeah. And both technically the first day of the following week. It's Sunday night, January |
| 1:04.8 | 15th. Yeah. Finally. So by the time this episode comes out, I think I will know my fate |
| 1:13.1 | as far as reviewers and all that goes. Oh, yeah. And then shortly after that, we'll see |
| 1:17.9 | if people show up and watch it. But I hope they do. I think it's a really good show. |
| 1:20.8 | I'm excited to watch it. I've seen not a frame of it. So I've added a little teaser |
| 1:24.6 | things, but I haven't seen anything more. So I'm coming in as just a viewer and I'm excited |
| 1:27.8 | to watch it and to see it. I deliberately did not play the games because I downloaded |
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