Hello and welcome. My name is John August.

My name is Craig Mays.

And this is episode 686 of Script Notes, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.

Today on the show, how do writers and the characters who create handle the obstacles that they encounter?

One's approach to problem solving can reveal a lot about otherwise hidden mental processes.

We'll discuss ways to tackle pernicious problems in real life and on the page and what it says about the problem solver.

But first, we have a lot of follow-up from previous episodes, including a master class on how to do the lunch order if you are a PA.

Oh, this is good.

Yeah, so we asked our listeners, they sent in and, man, they delivered this time.

Fantastic.

Yeah, so really good advice here.

We also have a ridiculous and completely unworkable proposal about movie tariffs that will never actually happen.

But we can use that as an excuse to talk about sort of why we want to incentivize domestic production.

Yes.

And ways a sane administration might try to do that.

Yeah, somewhere inside the fog of crazy is a topic worth discussing.

Yes.

And in our bonus segment for premium members, let's talk about tombs because I am just back from two weeks in Jordan and Egypt, where I got to live my Indiana Jones fantasy.

So I'm here to answer any

questions you have about relics and burying of the dead and travel through exotic locations.

And I just played the Indiana Jones video game, so I feel just as qualified.

Basically the same thing. Yeah, if not more so. I really went deep down there.

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