Hey, this is John heads up that today's episode has just a little bit of swearing in it

Hello, and welcome my name is John August my name is Craig Mason and

This is episode 598 of script notes a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters

Now crack often on this program we make fun of screenwriting competitions

Hmm, but I'm wondering if maybe we're wrong because today on the show we welcome the winner of the 1989

Virginia governor screenwriting award

This is a writer who's gone on to a prolific career in film and

Television including his work on the ex files and creating the legendary series breaking bad and co-creating its

Sister series better call Saul. I think we were wrong about screenwriting competitions because welcome Vince Gilligan

I love that entertain. Thank you, Jack. Thank you Craig. Yes, you were completely wrong about that. Yeah, I don't know

I guess we have to look back at the Virginia governor screenwriting award and really run through the other winners

I'm just

Some's telling me that maybe maybe they just maybe they just got lucky, you know blind squirrel and all that yeah

correlation but not causation. I will say that in 1989

They nailed it because as I have often said on this podcast and in other places Vince Gilligan is pretty much

The best that's ever been the best. It's ever done this job of writing television. So it's I mean, it's it's great to know you

But it's also great to have you on our show to talk because

People need to know what's what's going on inside your noggin. It's it's a pretty special place. Oh, man

That is like Jesus. I'm glad this is not a video because I was going going bright red now

That was very very kind and I will say I'm sure you guys have said you shouldn't pay to enter screenwriting contest

And I agree with that whole heartedly that yeah, the Virginia screenwriting competition was was free to

Like music to my ears. No Vince

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