668 - Holiday Live Show 2024
Scriptnotes Podcast
John August
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
John and Craig welcome Brian Jordan Alvarez & Stephanie Koenig (English Teacher) and Jac Schaeffer (Agatha All Along, WandaVision) to join them for a live holiday benefit for Hollywood HEART. They discuss constructing Agatha All Along from blue sky to the Witches’ Road, “protagonizing” a villain, breaking in through YouTube and maintaining a working relationship with your best friend.
We also play a new game, the Christmas Song Three Word Challenge, with former Scriptnotes producers Megan McDonnell (Dark Matter, The Marvels) and Megana Rao (Unstable).
In our bonus segment for premium members, we answer an all-star round of audience questions in maybe the best Q&A we’ve ever had.
Thanks to our fantastic audience, everyone at Dynasty Typewriter, and Hollywood HEART for putting the event together.
Links:
- Hollywood HEART
- Jac Schaeffer
- Brian Jordan Alvarez and Stephanie Koenig
- Agatha All Along
- Fleetwood Mac – Silver Springs (Live)
- English Teacher
- A Spy Movie on YouTube
- Sitting
- My Old Ass
- The Downeaster “Alexa”
- The Later Daters on Netflix
- Sun lamps
- Thin Mint bites
- A Man on the Inside on Netflix
- Get a Scriptnotes T-shirt!
- Check out the Inneresting Newsletter
- Gift a Scriptnotes Subscription or treat yourself to a premium subscription!
- Craig Mazin on Threads and Instagram
- John August on BlueSky, Threads, Instagram, and Mastodon
- Outro by Matthew Chilelli (send us yours!)
- Scriptnotes is produced by Drew Marquardt and edited by Matthew Chilelli.
Email us at [email protected]
You can download the episode here.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is John. Today's episode has even more swearing than usual. So if you're in a car with your kids, this is a standard warning about that. |
| 0:22.6 | Thank you. Hi! Hi! Hi. Hello. Hello and welcome. My name is John August. My name is Craig Mason. |
| 0:48.2 | And this is the holiday live show of Script Notes, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are |
| 0:53.6 | Every time they do it, they get more and more show of script notes, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are... Interesting to screenwriters. |
| 0:56.2 | Every time they do it, they get more and more bored. |
| 0:58.8 | Yeah, I know. |
| 0:59.8 | Interesting to show. |
| 1:01.4 | I know. |
| 1:02.5 | It feels like an obligation. |
| 1:03.5 | It feels like a chore, but it's never a chore. |
| 1:05.4 | It's a little bit like Christmas. |
| 1:06.3 | Aw. |
| 1:07.2 | Do you enjoy Christmas? |
| 1:08.1 | Do you enjoy the holidays? |
| 1:08.6 | I actually love Christmas. |
| 1:09.9 | I know you like cooking. You like baking. |
| 1:11.4 | I do, but also like love Christmas because when I was a kid, I wasn't allowed to have Christmas because Jew. |
| 1:16.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.0 | And there was like a real thing when I was growing up. |
| 1:19.3 | Yeah, sure. You know, I wanted a Christmas tree and I just thought like, oh, we can at least get a Christmas tree. |
| 1:23.8 | No. No Christmas tree. No. No, because that meant you were giving in. See, last night I was over at Aline's house, Aline Brasch McKenna, you know, |
| 1:30.6 | our original rivers. |
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