594 - Bindles and Gold Pans
Scriptnotes Podcast
John August
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
John and Craig look at another set of incredible news stories and ask, How Would This Be a Movie? Stories include an AI love service, an inventor with good intentions who doomed our planet, a fake Aretha Franklin, and a multi-million dollar nut heist.
We also follow up on heroic names and answer listener questions about researching your story.
In our bonus segment for premium members, John and Craig lie awake and wonder — what happens to our work after we die?
Links:
- The Man of Your Dreams by Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz for The Cut
- The Brilliant Inventor Who Made Two of History’s Biggest Mistakes by Steven Johnson for The New York Times Magazine
- Pennsylvania Woman Who Disappeared in 1992 Is Found Alive in Puerto Rico by Eduardo Medina for the New York Times
- The Counterfeit Queen of Soul by Jeff Maysh for Smithsonian
- The Curious Case of the Disappearing Nuts by Peter Vigneron for Outside
- A History Professor Takes On Hollywood by Katherine Rosman for the New York Times
- This Isn’t Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew by Daniel Wallace
- Posthumously by Daniel Wallace
- The Last of Us: Soundtrack From the Series by David Fleming & Gustavo Santaolalla
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome. My name is John August. My name is Craig Mason. |
| 0:07.0 | And this is episode 594 of Script Notes. A podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters. |
| 0:13.0 | Stay on the show. We return to asking the most important questions. What is love? |
| 0:18.0 | Can you forgive someone for ruining the world? And how would this be a movie? |
| 0:22.0 | That's right. It's another installment of us looking at stories in the news and in the public domain. |
| 0:27.0 | Are we trying to finesse them into narrative shape? Craig, are you ready for this? |
| 0:31.0 | I love this. As soon as you said what is love, I immediately heard Howard Jones in my head. |
| 0:35.0 | What is love? |
| 0:36.0 | Oh, yeah. Of course. |
| 0:37.0 | Anyway, this is very exciting. Very exciting. |
| 0:40.0 | So we'll do all those, but we'll also answer some listener questions. |
| 0:43.0 | And in a bonus segment for premium members, this one will tie into my one of my own cool things. |
| 0:47.0 | But Craig, I'm curious, what arrangements are you making for handling the stuff you've written after you die? |
| 0:52.0 | So there's things you've written and your papers will go someplace. |
| 0:55.0 | What are you going to do with that? Cause I have some stuff I need to figure out for myself. |
| 0:58.0 | So let's talk about post-death writing plans. |
| 1:02.0 | Well, not really about what we're going to write after we die, but I was intending to leave it all to you. |
| 1:05.0 | But now you've given me pause. |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.0 | Damn it. Damn it. |
| 1:10.0 | True. |
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