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

There's some swearing in this episode.

Hello and welcome. My name is John August.

No, no, I don't think so. I think my name is Craig Mason.

And you're listening to episode 723 of Script Notes, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.

As writers, we often use comparisons when pitching or discussing projects.

It's diehard on a bus. It's driving Miss Daisy meets the hangover.

Today on the show, what makes it useful comp? And when is it hurting more than it helps?

We'll also answer listener questions.

And in our bonus segment for premium members, let's discuss email.

We can talk about inbox zero, but Craig, I suspect that one of our listeners might have the answer to this weird thing that happens with just your email, where sometimes people on our email chain get your emails or they don't.

I will get your emails or won't get it. Someone out there is an email expert who will tell us what's actually going on. Okay. I'm excited for that. That would be nice. Hopefully somebody who works at Google, why don't I just call my friend who's the vice president of engineering of Chrome? He would, right? I should call him. I think our listeners are after

our answers. Yeah, because often we provide answers to our listeners, but sometimes our listeners

provide answers to us. This could be one of the situations. It's nice for them to be able to do a

service. Yeah, nice. Now, this is not an official segment, but it's a second or maybe a third time,

so it's almost become a segment, which is John recently learned,

in which I share some fact that I've somehow been unaware of my entire life.

And in confessing my ignorance, all may benefit.

We can all gain from a thing I just learned this past week.

All right.

So, Craig, you know, we're redoing the studio downstairs where we

record the podcast, getting ready for a transition to video. And one of the things we wanted to do

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