605 - Medicine and Mayhem
Scriptnotes Podcast
John August
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
John and Craig look at four tales of science, medicine and mayhem and ask, how would this be a movie? Stories include a catatonic woman who woke up after 20 years, a white supremacist transformed by MDMA, a drugged crypto lawyer, and an in-depth account of alien biology.
But first we have a very special announcement: Scriptnotes LIVE is back! We also follow-up on recent episodes before Drew and Halley look at statements John and Craig made years ago to see if either of them have changed their tune.
In our bonus segment for premium members, John and Craig discuss the changes that are coming to the world of Dungeons and Dragons with ONE D&D.
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- A catatonic woman awakened after 20 years. Her story may change psychiatry by Richard Sima for Stuff
- How a dose of MDMA transformed a white supremacist by Rachel Nuwer for BBC
- He Went After Crypto Companies. Then Someone Came After Him. by John Carreyrou for the New York Times
- Alien biology post on Reddit
- Awakenings and Lorenzo’s Oil
- Scriptnotes episodes 74, 176, 238 and 251.
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Larry Turman on IMDb and Wikipedia.
- Dan Goldberg on IMDb and Wikipedia.
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- Scriptnotes is produced by Drew Marquardt with help from Halley Lamberson, and edited by Matthew Chilelli.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome. |
| 0:03.1 | My name is John August. |
| 0:04.1 | My name is Craig Mason. |
| 0:07.7 | And this is episode 605 of Script Notes. |
| 0:09.6 | It's a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters. |
| 0:13.7 | Today on the show four tales of science, medicine and mayhem. |
| 0:16.9 | That's right. |
| 0:17.9 | It's another How Would This Be a Movie, where we take stories our listeners have sent us |
| 0:21.4 | and discuss how they might become filmed entertainment. |
| 0:24.6 | Plus, we're going to follow up going back years and maybe even some listener questions. |
| 0:29.6 | Years. |
| 0:30.6 | That's like, isn't that the sort of thing that marriage therapists tell you to never |
| 0:34.4 | do? |
| 0:35.4 | Yeah, digging out those old things. |
| 0:37.3 | So yeah, Drew and Halley have been going back through the archives and as they're putting |
| 0:40.6 | together a script and a book. |
| 0:41.9 | And they have questions about things we said. |
| 0:44.0 | Okay. |
| 0:45.0 | Well, I'm sure we were wrong. |
| 0:47.0 | We were probably wrong. |
| 0:48.0 | We were wrong. |
| 0:49.0 | We were probably wrong. |
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