Hello and welcome my name is John August.

Oh, oh, oh, my name is Craig Mason.

And you're listening to episode 638 of script notes, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.

Today on the show, You Can't Handle the Truth!

You Can't Handle the Truth!

We'll be talking about lawyer scenes and movies and television with an actual criminal offense attorney

to separate the tropes from the truth.

And in our bonus segment for premium members,

Craig, Beach Vacations,

is there anything better or anything worse?

There is almost everything is better, literally everything.

I'm with you there, so we're going to have to find some other third party to argue

for beach vacations.

I don't know if we have the right guy for that I can be honest with you.

Well we'll see.

First Craig we have some important follow-up here about a mistake that you made.

The great Julia Turner herself wrote in to say. As your self-appointed chief journalism correspondent,

I am obligated to write in to tell you that Stephen Glass

published his fabulism in the New Republic, not the New Yorker.

That is how his articles made it through the New Yorker's

vaunted fact-checking process which in fact they didn't.

Yeah. God I feel terrible so confession time my entire life I panic whenever I have to reference the New

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