Hey, this is John.

So Craig and I were all set to record a brand new episode this week, but then he got waylaid

with some stuff for his show, and I was busy finishing up the WGA negotiations.

Thank you, Drew, for the woo.

We will talk more details about the deal itself in a later episode.

But today, we are going to be revisiting an early episode.

This is, what, 89?

Episode 89 from May 2013.

God, so long we've been doing this podcast.

I can't believe it.

Yeah.

So why this episode?

Why did you pick this one?

Well, so it's one we've never revisited, but I got an email from a listener that made me

look at it again. This is the email I got from Kellyn. If you're ever looking for a future replay

suggestion, there's an early, unassuming episode about transitions that changed the way I think about

writing. Going back to it as I wrote the script that landed me at Sundance, it felt like the missing

key that let me crack the story. It also has a delightful and what may be your first conversation about one and a half glasses of wine. Oh, that's great, yeah. I don't even drink one and a half glasses of wine, but I remember that being a meme at some point early in the podcast. You're talking to this that you have like wine with with dinner every night and I was like, who's this, John August? That is not the John August of 2026 for sure. What else is in this episode? Because I'm just trying to place it in time. We talk a little bit about the lawsuit that was filed by two of the G.I. Joe writers about the sequel, which is, it actually ends up being a good conversation about prewriting and not leading work behind, probably five years before you guys had the no work left behind campaign. Oh, yeah. And we also talk about shots that we need to stop putting in movies, which is super fun. Oh, that's great. Yeah, I hope we mentioned the alarm clock at the start of the movie, like, you know, waking up and hitting the alarm clock? I'm not sure if you do.

I just relisten to this. So people will listen to the episode and see, if I didn't put that in the list then, let's do that now, because I still see it all the time. And unless you're making a parody of that shot, stop using the alarm clock shot. Also in the boilerplate, you ask listeners to send in questions that, like,

they're non-screenwriting questions about their life and stuff. Did we ever do that? And should we do that again? We did that. We did a random advice episode, and I think it's a high time to do a random advice episode. So Craig and I know a lot about screenwriting, but we also know stuff about other things, and we're happily vamp and give you our uninformed answers about other questions in life.

So it could be relationship stuff, personal stuff, what should I do kinds of questions we can do?

Or sort of ethical questions or like, how do I deal with this family member questions?

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