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 of 635 of Script Notes, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.

Now sometimes on this podcast we talk craft, sometimes we talk business, today on the show it's half and half. On the business side, how do you make

sure that person you're hiring for your movie or casting on your show Craig isn't an absolute

monster? We'll talk to your best practices on vetting people.

And on the crap side, how do you write for characters whose native language is not English?

We'll look at it, listen to examples for how to do it right and some pitfalls to avoid.

We'll also answer some more

listener questions.

And Craig, for a bonus segment,

something I don't think we've ever talked about enough on this

podcast.

Kults.

Oh God, I hate cults.

I love cults so much.

Why did it have to be cults? Why did it have to be cults? Now I

joined the Zoom late but I think you and Drew were already talking about this first

item of business here. Yeah. Which is you love word Games, but I was playing the new New York Times

for beta version Word Game and I suspected this is not going to be Craig's thing.

So I'm talking about New York Times Strands.

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