Hey, this is John. A standard warning for people who are in the car with their kids.

There's some swearing in this episode. This beautiful crowd.

It's beautiful.

Beautiful.

Hello and welcome.

My name is John August.

My name is Craig Mason.

And this is Script Notes, a podcast and now a book about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So for folks listening at home, we are the Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles. It is our book launch party. Craig, how are you feeling?

Well, I feel very grateful because I believe everyone here is here because they bought a book.

They got a book. So we are... Thank you. This is the most books you'll ever see in one place for script notes.

Everyone has an orange book in their hands. Yes. Cut to 400 years from now. Absolutely. And our book is the Constitution of the new country. It's the new Bible. Yes. It's Little Red Book. Little Red Book. Yeah. We have an amazing show for you today. We have Julia Turner here. She's going to interrogate us about the Script Notes book. Yes. We're also going to talk about Craig's favorite topic, which is criticism.

Yeah, I love it.

Love it.

Love it. Can't wait to talk with her about that.

Ashley Nicole Black will help us make a meal of leftovers.

We'll have audience questions, but Craig, just this morning, you worked out a whole new game.

Yeah, you know, I love a little Christmas quiz. It's a brief one. We'll do it sort of in between Julia and Ashley Nicole, I think.

Just a little trivia quiz. And I believe we're going to need three contestants.

We're going to need three contestants. So you are already contestants. You just don't know it yet. If you have a book in your hands, open it to where we signed it. And if you have a star on that page, you are a contestant. Raise your hand if you have one of the starred books. There's a star book. There's one. There's one. Oh, there's two. There's two. But first, Craig, let's see.

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