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

Hello, welcome. My name is John August

Oh, my name is Craig Mason and this episode 604 of script notes a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting

to screenwriters now often on this podcast we answer listener questions today

We are going to question questions themselves

What's really happening when characters and movies ask questions? Are you high and crafting?

This is the closest we've ever come to being sort of a weed based podcast

Absolutely, that does feel very high and very trippy

What if we question like what is the question about questions himself questions about questions man

And it did feel that way as I started sort of outlining it

But then I said dig into it's like yeah, you know what our characters are asking questions all the time

And some of those famous lines of dialogue are questions and so we'll look into why characters ask questions and

As writers what we should be thinking about what we put a question in a character's mouth. I'm down for that

Which is good because I have no choice you have no choice your passenger on this ride. Yep. So it's from the green

Oh, yeah, plus let's follow up on some earlier episodes and maybe answer some of the sort of questions that have come in new this past week

Right and in our bonus paper for previous members Craig

I want to discuss the financial backgrounds of superheroes super villains sure and the strange patterns of inherited wealth

Which I'm not sure I had considered before by this article is that's fascinating

Yeah, that's what a lot of a lot of weird money weird money weird money weird families of people with money power

Yeah, with power. Yeah, yeah, royalty royalty. Yeah, people over royalty

Now speaking of premium members drew you got an email from a listener who is talking about our premium membership

Yeah, we'll start it off with a question. So Kate writes

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