Hello and welcome. My name is John August.

Whoa. My name is Craig Mason.

And you're listening to Episode 710 of Script Notes. It's a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.

Today on the show, Craig, whatever happened to weird?

I'll show you.

I would argue that our modern world is safer in most ways than it's ever been,

arguably edges of that that are not safer.

But it's also kind of less interesting.

And so I want to root out the causes and potential solutions for what it kind of feels like cultural stagnation

and what it means for writers and the entertainment industry.

I also want to discuss the tipping point between wanting to write and actually writing.

So not just on a daily basis, but like, oh, this is the thing I want to write.

Well, what is the actual turning point for the growing for like, I want to write this thing and I'm actually writing this thing?

Moving it from the, I think maybe one day I should do this pile to the

I'm doing it pile. From the someday list to the active projects list. And in our bonus segment

members, let's discuss self-narrative and the pros and cons of remembering stuff about your

past and sort of having a continuity of who you are over time. Because it actually ties into,

we talked months or months ago about affintasiaasia people who don't have a who can't summon images in their head right and correlated

with that is a lot of times these people don't have a clear memory of who they were over time and

there's a lot of disadvantages of that but there's also some advantages to that. You're not weighed down by

your history. Yeah, I may be one of the weird ones on that front. So we'll get to that if you

pay the $5, which honestly, come on. It's $5. $5. $5. $5. Big news. We have a live show coming up. Our

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