Hello and welcome. My name is John August.

My name is Craig Mason.

And this is episode 590 of Scriptets, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are

interesting to screenwriters. Today on the show, why do some people do bad things?

More specifically, why does past trauma lead some characters to become villains while

others become heroes? We'll wrestle with good and evil, right and wrong, and look at

how that impacts the choices our characters make. We'll also be answering some listener

questions on character jobs and getting paid. And in our bonus segment for PritMia members,

we will talk tattoos. I've now had mine for 30 years while Craig, you are a newbie

to the whole tattoo world. Indeed. I'm excited. We'll get into it.

Now Craig, a few episodes back, we were talking about phones and like sort of devices that

they're exactly just to have their deaths to tell their assistants about like, you know,

yes, who's calling in or like bringing me a coke. We couldn't think what they were

called. Charlie wrote in to say those old things were called Amtels. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Amtels. It was an Amtel. What boy, I feel bad for the Amtel company. I mean, where are

they now? Well, they still sell them. So we'll put a link there. It's is amtel.com

mtgl.com. Oh my God. So they still make them and it clicks through like they look kind

of the same. I'm linking. Oh my God. Oh my God. Well, by the way, this website tells you

everything. This website is like in a credible time capsule of what websites looked like

in 2004. Maybe. Yeah. It's also like it's built with tables like the old way the table.

So you have to structure things with tables. Yeah. Like the little side menus that pop up

of these weird like windows style boxing thing. I mean, this is nuts. They still they can't

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