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I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

For those of you paying attention, you know that on this podcast I have expressed a slight tangent that I have gone off on over the last 18 months.

Screenplays. Two of them underway under my name. So it should come as no surprise that I'm interested in talking to people that really

know something about the science of screenwriting. My guest today, Paul Galino, does. A professor

of screenwriting at Chapman University in California, this is Paul's second appearance. His second appearance in just a few months.

Paul is the author of screenwriting the sequence approach, the hidden structure of successful

screenplays. He is also the co-author of the science of screenwriting, the neuroscience behind

storytelling strategies.

Now, before you immediately say to yourself, Mike, I could care less about screenplays,

I don't have any interest. I might ask you to pause that thought. Because what Paul brings

to the table is an understanding of story, which is an understanding of

communication.

And if you can't communicate, you are nowhere.

Right?

So that's why I quickly have a guy like Paul back on the show.

I like to understand communication. I like to understand

one of the great tools of communication, which is story. Without any further delay, let's jump

right into my guest, Paul Galino and traverse the storytelling landscape.

So Paul, the news, I think the most interesting news to, at least for me, in the filmmaking world would be this little bit of a

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