Hello and welcome. My name is John August.

Ah! My name is Craig Naysen.

And you're listening to episode 708 of Script Notes. It's a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.

Today on the show, we look at three stories in the news, two of them from the Hollywood trades, and ask, how would this be a movie?

We also follow up on audio dramas, last looks, and absolute rage bait in an article about ChatGPT5. Oh, that's fantastic because there's already rage bait in two of the How Would This Be Movies? Yes. So you're setting me up, right? Like, this is a setup. This is a setup. I haven't been cranky enough lately? Yes, we have a blood pressure monitor on Craig and we will just watch the line rise as we go through. My blood pressure goes down. Oh. Oh, it's nice. That's my secret cap. Absolutely. Light detectors never work on Craig because. Yeah. Yeah. Light detectors would be useful for several the stories we're talking about today uh yeah for sure

plus we'll have a new listener questions

and in our bonus segment for premium members

we often need to watch TV while we're traveling

away from home overseas or domestically

we'll share our experiences and hopes for the future

about uh best ways to watch things when you're not at your home

audio and video set up.

Oh, that sounds like a good idea. So how to hack the hotel television and so over?

I've reached behind so many hotel TVs. Yeah. Sometimes it's very complicated.

Sometimes it's really complicated. Like they really don't want you to. Yeah, clearly like, you are just breaking everything.

Yeah. Which I kind of take seriously, you know. I'm a rules follower. Before we get started,

we have some local news and follow up an explanation. So recently, script notes sent out 81 emails

over the course of 20 minutes. Oh, yeah. That was fun. That was kind of fun. Oh, I loved it. So I was in Australia for two weeks, and so I knew nothing about this. Craig, you actually knew about it before I knew about it, which is so unusual. I can't, no. I got quite a few texts that morning saying, hey, has the script notes email server lost its mind? And I was what and then i looked at my i'm one of those

people that i go through my emails i don't have the 15 000 unread emails you know that sometimes

you see yeah my badge is usually good for three or four you know now impressive look there are a bunch of

red messages that are still sitting in my inbox.

But I try and, you know, read that morning.

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