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.

Oh, my name is Craig Mason.

And you're listening to script notes, a podcast about screenwriting

and things that are interesting to screenwriters.

Now, if one were to eavesdrop on the conversations happening at Los Angeles

restaurants or the chatter

occurring on Zoom meetings before everyone gets there, you might assume that things

are pretty rough in Hollywood these days. Today on the show we'll look at

what's going on in the industry, it's historical analogs, and some suggestions for what might fix it.

I'm sure that they'll listen to that, right?

Like, we'll suggest what to do.

We'll suggest the things.

And then they'll do it. The industry big ways will do it.

It's not just the industry, big ways. It's really the structural fundamental changes that will happen. Or maybe we don't need to do anything.

It'll be all sort of stuff out. We'll also answer listener questions, and in our bonus segment for premium members,

what happens after we die?

No Craig, we're not talking about the afterlife.

What specifically happens to all of our accounts and passwords and other aspects of our digital lives and what preparation should we make should Craig or I or Drew for that matter suddenly keel over and all our stuff is there.

Sweet release.

Yes.

It's really for us, but not for our heirs, not for everybody else.

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