Hello and welcome. My name is John August.

My name is Craig Mason.

And this is episode 725 of Script Notes. It's a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.

Today on the show, let's play Connections. What do tampons, millennials, ISIS, and collegiate squash have in common?

They all seemed obvious until you get to collegiate squash. Yeah, there's always one stumper.

Yeah. When it does throw in something that just like knocks it all off.

Well, the answer is they are all topics in this week's installment of how would this be a movie?

And boy, howdy, do we have a range this week.

We also have follow-up and listener questions. And in our bonus segment for premium members,

let's talk about shiny plastic discs. I have shelves full of CDs and DVDs that I will never use

again, but I'm not ready to give them up. And I suspect I'm not alone. So I want to talk through the decisions about our physical media and what we're going to do with that.

But first, we have another installment of This Week John learned.

And Craig, this week John learned that skunk spray is yellow, thick, and incredibly sticky.

That's a thing that was different than what I expected.

I had this image in my head that skunk spray was like clear and it was like thin.

And first-hand experience, skunk spray is awful.

And it is a chemical weapon.

It is a bear spray that comes from a small little creature. Oh, you mean the spray that comes out of a skunk? Yes. I kept thinking about this like bear spray, like the stuff you bring with you to spray to get rid of bears. Yes. What I learned this week is that they're much more similar than you would expect. My lambert lambert who you love yeah 10 30 p.m.

on monday night you got skunk let him out in the backyard and did not see that there was a

small creature there that lambert took out after i realized oh my god that's a skunk i didn't know

there even were skunks in l. you don't see skunks in l. we didn't lock in you out all the time

yelled up lambert to stay away lambert got hit straight in the face um know there even were skunks in L.A. You don't see skunks in L.A. We didn't lock me out all the time.

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