Hello and welcome. My name is John August. My name is Craig Mason.

And this is episode 597 of Script Notes. It's podcasts about screenwriting and things

that are interesting to screenwriters. Today on the show, producer Drew Markquart has assembled

a vast number of listener questions, which we will tackle the best of our ability. Craig

and I have not looked at these questions at all. We are going completely cold.

I love that. Which can be good. Yeah. It can be fun. It'll be fun. Hey, we've done

it 596 times. If we can't get this right, what good are we at this point? Not so good.

No. Craig, for a bonus topic I was thinking, this is top of my head, which fantasy guest

living our dad, we would love to have on the program.

Great. Yeah. Yeah. Talk about that. Cool. Drew, I see here on the workflow, we have

some follow up. And it looks like this was followed from people who are experts in

things that we are not experts in, which is my favorite kind of follow up. Yeah.

Ethan and Medford Oregon writes, I'm not a screenwriter, but I've been listening to

the show since pre pandemic and listening to episode 594. I feel seen. I happen to sell

gold pans on the internet and have since 2006. John's question is spot on. Gold panning

is practiced all over the world, but is rarely seen on screen. Gold is the literal treasure

sought nearly every fantasy story, but the characters would rather fight a dragon than

dip a pan in the water. Gold panning has been relegated to cartoons and cowboy movies,

same with windows, and that's weird. Personally, I think the reason we don't see more people

panning for golden movies is down to a fundamental misunderstanding of panning. Panning is only part

of the process. It means it's a means of narrowing in on the original source. Placer gold,

spelled like placer, but sounds like placer. The stuff you pan for is gold that has moved from

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