Multiple cups of coffee, glorious analog film and television equipment that actually works, and the burning desire to keep journalistic integrity alive.

These are truly the only bright moments in today's film, which expertly chronicles a very dark day in our history.

Howdy, I'm Jeff Goldsmith, and this is the Q&A. My agenda is simple.

Each week, I plan to bring you in-depth insights into the creative process of storytelling.

And folks, we have a really great episode for you today. It's September 5 with co-writer,

Maritzbinder, and co-writer director, Tim Feldbaum. In case you aren't aware, September 5 chronicles the

1972 Munich Olympics from the perspective of what was happening behind the scenes in the ABC

Sports Studio as they were broadcasting the news of the terrorist actions underway during the Olympics.

It's almost like a great companion piece to

Steven Spielberg's film Munich, in which this is the story that's rarely been told about how

American journalists with a German and French crew worked together to broadcast to the world

the horrific events of the terrorist actions that were underway at the 1972

Olympics. Of course, it helps that the filmmakers met with the journalists involved and chronicled

their story into a really well-paced screenplay that became a heck of a film. And of course,

you could read the screenplay over at the Backstory Magazine blog, and Mauretz and Tim were generous enough to also give us two very short deleted scenes that we talked about towards the end of the episode, and you could see that on the backstory blog as well.

Without a doubt, Maritz and Tim were very forthcoming about their creative process and what it took to bring September 5 to the screen.

So I know you'll dig this episode. I'm sure by now my listeners around the world have seen

the news about the Los Angeles fires and the Pacific Palisades and in Altadena and

throughout the Southlands and the fires are continuing to rage, but seem to be a little more under control each day,

which is a good thing. There's certainly a resiliency to Los Angeles wanting to rebuild and

wanting to get a fresh start and hopefully stay as safe as they can and help each other out.

And if you're listening and you want to help from anywhere in the world, there's no

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