The Scriptnotes Book is real, and now available for preorder! John and Craig take a look through its 335 pages to explore the topics, guests and deep-dives we’ve assembled from over 1,000 hours of this podcast, creating what is sure to be your favorite bathroom book. Then it’s another round of How Would This Be a Movie?, where we look at four stories in the news to see whether they’re ripe for adaptation. Stories include a mother taking on the revenge porn industry, a wife navigating her husband’s longtime crush, a government worker who was secretly recorded on a date, and the potential destruction of solar storms. We also answer a listener question on current filmmaking technology. In our bonus segment for premium members, what is kindness? John and Craig talk through what sets this undervalued quality apart from niceness and other traits we mistake for kind. Link: <ul> <li><a href="https://scriptnotesbook.com/">Preorder the Scriptnotes book!</a></li> <li>Send your pre-order receipt to Drew at ask@johnaugust.com</li> <li><a href= "https://slate.com/life/2025/07/porn-mother-daughter-revenge-law.html"> A Mother’s Revenge</a> as told to Christina Cauterucci for SLATE</li> <li><a href= "https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/mar/30/charlotte-laws-fight-with-internet-revenge-porn-king"> Charlotte Laws’ fight with Hunter Moore, the internet’s revenge porn king</a> by Carole Cadwalladr for The Guardian</li> <li><a href= "https://slate.com/advice/2025/07/dear-prudence-chat-manic-pixie-past.html"> Help! My Husband’s Manic Pixie Past Has Become a Full-Blown Threat to My Sanity</a>, Dear Prudence column for SLATE</li> <li>SNL’s <a href= "https://youtu.be/rImxuuD_kwM?si=aFl25b_ydjDPkmSU">What’s That Name</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/climate/gold-bars-titanic-epa-date.html"> An Offhand Remark About Gold Bars, Secretly Recorded, Upended His Life</a> by Lisa Friedman for NYTimes</li> <li><a href= "https://www.noemamag.com/the-unseen-fury-of-solar-storms/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email"> The Unseen Fury of Solar Storms</a> by Henry Wismayer for Noema</li> <li><a href="https://usetrmnl.com/">TRMNL</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs">Steve Ballmer: Developers</a></li> <li><a href= "https://elderscrolls.bethesda.net/en-US/oblivion-remastered">The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered</a></li> <li><a href= "https://store.steampowered.com/app/3264170/Birdigo__bird_word_game/"> Birdigo</a></li> <li><a href= "https://cottonbureau.com/people/scriptnotes-podcast">Get a Scriptnotes T-shirt!</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.quoteunquoteapps.com/">Check out the Inneresting Newsletter</a></li> <li><a href="https://scriptnotes.supportingcast.fm/">Become a Scriptnotes Premium member</a>, or <a href= "https://scriptnotes.supportingcast.fm/gifts">gift a subscription</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@ScriptnotesPodcast">Subscribe to Scriptnotes on YouTube</a></li> <li>Craig Mazin on <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/clmazin/">Instagram</a></li> <li>John August on <a href= "https://bsky.app/profile/johnaugust.bsky.social">Bluesky</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/johnaugust/?hl=en">Instagram</a></li> <li><a href= "http://johnaugust.com/2013/scriptnotes-the-outros">Outro</a> by Nick Moore (<a href="http://johnaugust.com/2014/outros-needed">send us yours!</a>)</li> <li>Scriptnotes is produced by <a href= "https://www.drewmarquardt.com/">Drew Marquardt</a> and edited by <a href="https://www.matthewchilelli.com/">Matthew Chilelli</a>.</li> </ul> Email us at ask@johnaugust.com You can download the episode <a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/scriptnotes/697standard.mp3">here</a>.

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