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4 Person Writing Team · Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists.
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  Speaker 1: Get your pens out, bust open writer Duet because we've
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  Speaker 1: got a new episode.
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  Speaker 2: William Faulkner said writing is best done alone. At least
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  Speaker 2: that's what I wrote down that he said. We don't
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  Speaker 2: know if he said that for real, but we also
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  Speaker 2: think he's wrong. Today we're talking to one four person
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  Speaker 2: writing team.
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  Speaker 3: When we're talking about writing, typically writing team means two,
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  Speaker 3: but this time it's four. Now, why don't you think
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  Speaker 3: about that for a moment, So sit.
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  Speaker 4: Back, relax, and let's find a time for all four
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  Speaker 4: of us to meet up to talk process.
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  Speaker 5: Listen in.
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  Speaker 1: It feels so strange to see you guys in this
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  Speaker 1: context because usually it's at coffee shops or my place,
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  Speaker 1: but very rarely with a microphone in front of our face.
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  Speaker 1: You know a.
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  Speaker 3: Lot of times it does look like a zoom, just
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  Speaker 3: like this one. But to have I mean, what even
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  Speaker 3: is this?
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy to me. It's like crazy to me that
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  Speaker 1: they gave us this stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Listening. I was just pointing to a microphone.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, no, yeah, I forgot, because we're filming this too.
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  Speaker 1: It's so different from writing for me. This is just
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  Speaker 1: so different from writing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so awesome.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no, it's so awesome, man. Yeah, and I
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  Speaker 5: love it.
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  Speaker 4: When we're at your place, it's usually the day this
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  Speaker 4: street cleaning and it takes us forever and fun.
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  Speaker 1: Parking, Oh gosh, here we go. We're gonna be airing
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  Speaker 1: out dirty laundry.
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  Speaker 2: Call you out.
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  Speaker 3: Because you shouldn't be living in Westwood as an adult.
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  Speaker 3: That's something you leave in college. Okay, so your friends
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  Speaker 3: could find parking?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, she said, yeah, yeah, actually, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I tell it like it is. I tell it like
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  Speaker 3: it is.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry you guys. Well, we should probably introduce ourselves
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  Speaker 3: to the audience. So we are a four person writing team.
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  Speaker 3: We have all been writing the same screenplay since how
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  Speaker 3: long has it been, twenty eighteen?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, since right before the pandemic, well, two years before
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  Speaker 1: the pandemic, so right before two.
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  Speaker 3: Years before the pandemic. And so we've been working on
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  Speaker 3: this and it's just grown and evolved, and we are
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  Speaker 3: so excited because we just finished our second pass of
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  Speaker 3: the first draft.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so really, we're really excited.
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  Speaker 1: We're really excited. We're so excited.
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  Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, we're really but that's not all we do.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we are hirable as a four person writing team,
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  Speaker 3: Like we're always looking to be staffed. We are always
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  Speaker 3: putting together their late night packets with each other and
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  Speaker 3: always just for practice person team. Yeah, we are in
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  Speaker 3: a practice of writing monologue jokes every day as well,
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  Speaker 3: just to keep that muscle going. And okay, so so
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  Speaker 3: we'll go around. I am Melissa mick murphy and I
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  Speaker 3: am a writer. I am also an actress, yes, and
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  Speaker 3: during the day, I do social media for Exxon Mobile.
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  Speaker 3: I'm making like really fun content and uh and videos
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  Speaker 3: and and and posts and tweet well not tweets anymore,
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  Speaker 3: but I am just been collaborating with them. It's been
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  Speaker 3: a really awesome collaboration. But of course I am trying
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  Speaker 3: to sell a script like everybody in this town. Uh
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  Speaker 3: so that's me. That's me. I'm Melissa McMurphy.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes what will do is it's awesome is that
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  Speaker 1: she'll let us help her do some of the work
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  Speaker 1: because like we're such a good four unit, Like we've
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  Speaker 1: all got our own lives going on, but we come
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  Speaker 1: together and write this project together, and it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like magical and she'll let us like help her out
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  Speaker 1: with some of the exceon mobile stuff, which I think.
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  Speaker 3: It was so amazing to have like a sounding board
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  Speaker 3: and to get like, it's so awesome when I like
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  Speaker 3: text like something, and then like throughout the day, I'll
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  Speaker 3: get like all these other pitches and all these other ideas,
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  Speaker 3: and it's just like amazing to have a four person
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  Speaker 3: writing group.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, it's awesome.
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna I'm gonna go, and I'm gonna say sorry
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  Speaker 5: about that? Did I?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, go ahead, what's up?
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  Speaker 4: I am Skyla, I'm Skyla Bouten, And I mean we
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  Speaker 4: should be honest here.
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  Speaker 5: I met Melissa on Coffee meets Bagel.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, we should be honest. We we used to.
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  Speaker 3: We went on a few dates before we decided we
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  Speaker 3: were better as a writing team.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and we were friends.
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  Speaker 4: And that's when I'm everyone here because I've just a
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  Speaker 4: visionary I love I love writing.
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  Speaker 5: My mom moved from London.
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  Speaker 4: I was in her belly at the time, and so
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  Speaker 4: technically I'm from London, London Town.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, and I grew up so you were like you
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  Speaker 3: were born here?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, but yes kind of yeah, but I.
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  Speaker 3: The accent developed in the world.
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  Speaker 5: We talked about this all the time.
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  Speaker 1: We cannot figure it out. We cannot figure out how
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  Speaker 1: she still sounds.
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  Speaker 2: Britt was actually yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry, yeah no, I.
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  Speaker 4: Mean I'm kind of a good looking dude, so I
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  Speaker 4: think the British just like works with it or something.
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  Speaker 4: So anyway, yes, a Skylar bhuten and I love writing
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  Speaker 4: and I love.
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  Speaker 5: All my These are like some of my best friends
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  Speaker 5: because I.
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  Speaker 4: Moved here from a very very very very very young age,
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  Speaker 4: so I didn't have a lot of friends.
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  Speaker 5: Here, so it's good to meet everybody.
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  Speaker 3: And the young age, to be clear, was zero.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so I moved to a very young age of.
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  Speaker 1: Fetus, potentially before age starts. Really, if you think about it,
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  Speaker 1: you kind of come out of the.
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  Speaker 2: Wounds day, yeah, because actually if you're like a little
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  Speaker 2: bit yeah, no, I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't say that. I actually actually know.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, well hey guys, so sorry, go ahead, yeah, thanks,
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  Speaker 1: Hey guys. What's up. I'm Sean Shots. That's my stage name.
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  Speaker 1: Uh So, I am an actor, a comedy guy. I
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  Speaker 1: do some really good open mics and some really good
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  Speaker 1: stand up shows, and I kind of am the comedy
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  Speaker 1: of the writing team a little bit. I kind of
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  Speaker 1: bring a fun flavor.
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  Speaker 5: Oh you kidding kind of you totally.
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  Speaker 2: No, stop, it's really funny. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I never really took any writing classes and never
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  Speaker 1: really learned how to write until I met you guys,
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  Speaker 1: and and I really had a vision and I really
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  Speaker 1: had a dream and it's been fun. I kind of
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  Speaker 1: fell into it with you guys. We kind of all
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  Speaker 1: like met I saw your guys's date on Coffee meets Bagels.
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  Speaker 1: Once it turned into writing thing, and you guys got
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  Speaker 1: stuck somewhere, and I said, well, I can help out
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  Speaker 1: with this. And actually I remember, Melissa, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you remember this. We took a writing a sketch
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  Speaker 1: writing class together like years ago, and that.
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  Speaker 3: Was so wild because I knew, like when you cold
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  Speaker 3: DMed me to ask if I was writing anything and
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  Speaker 3: if you could punch up anything I wrote, I knew
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  Speaker 3: you looked familiar, but I couldn't really place why. I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: are you my dentist? Are you my psychiatrist?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 3: Who are you? Why do I rem them?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Well, because like we were doing that sketch class and
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  Speaker 1: then like I think the third class you dropped out
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  Speaker 1: because you got notes right or something like that happened,
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  Speaker 1: like you didn't like.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they like weren't really understanding. Like I wrote this
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  Speaker 3: hilarious sketch about like like a high school that was
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  Speaker 3: too woke and the teachers did not get the joke
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  Speaker 3: at all, and so I it just like wasn't for me.
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  Speaker 3: Like I respect anybody who was able to finish Michael's
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  Speaker 3: clas but like I just could not.
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  Speaker 4: You know, yeah, yeah, I because Melissa put us all
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  Speaker 4: in the text chain. This is how yeah yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's all because of Melissa.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So like but like just to finish, Like I've
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  Speaker 1: never taken like a writing class per se, Like I've
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  Speaker 1: never been a writer. I was like a business major
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  Speaker 1: in college and then I dropped out, So like this
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  Speaker 1: is kind of fun for me. It's like and I'm
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  Speaker 1: really excited to like get this thing finished. Like and
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  Speaker 1: I think that's kind of all our goals this year
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  Speaker 1: is to get this thing finished.
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  Speaker 3: And like you are the king of punch Up. Like
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  Speaker 3: I know we've been saying it, but like you are
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  Speaker 3: so good at punch up and like a lot of
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  Speaker 3: times on first read, I'll like read your jokes and
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  Speaker 3: I'll go, I don't understand what these mean or what
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  Speaker 3: he's talking about, but on like fifth read, I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: this is really really funny.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. Like for me, I think like just personally,
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  Speaker 1: my style and my voice is like if every line
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have a joke, what are we doing? So like
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  Speaker 1: every single line should be funny. And I'm kind of
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  Speaker 1: a I'm kind of big on action line jokes, So
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  Speaker 1: I love writing jokes into the action line, and.
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  Speaker 3: That's where most of the jokes are.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like you.
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  Speaker 3: You'll write like interior fart parade day, and then you'll
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  Speaker 3: you'll like write it on the next line and you'll say,
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  Speaker 3: just kidding, interior museum.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. When I heard that, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. When
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  Speaker 2: I heard that was yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah really So that's like I'm kind of the punch
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  Speaker 1: up guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess I'll go when My name is Quentin Foss.
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  Speaker 2: I handle formatting and technical file conversion, and I also
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  Speaker 2: my dad is the founder final draft and so I
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  Speaker 2: got us we were all able to use a final draft.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry for yelling. I just really looked the scroup and
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  Speaker 2: it's it's I I met. I met you guys because
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  Speaker 2: I was Skylar's roommate, and I always used to be
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  Speaker 2: sitting there and I used to be sitting there, and
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  Speaker 2: I used to be drinking coffee all times of day,
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  Speaker 2: and you guys would and you guys would say, well,
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  Speaker 2: I guess if you're gonna be here, you can help
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  Speaker 2: us out. And so it's been really it's been really
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  Speaker 2: awesome to be involved with you guys. Am I screaming,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry from that.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no, we're not at all.
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  Speaker 6: Quentin and I live above the Republic of Pies in
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  Speaker 6: North Hollywood, and it is such a good space and
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  Speaker 6: I'm not from here, and I have to tell you
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  Speaker 6: it is absolutely incredible.
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  Speaker 5: The energy in North Hollywood.
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  Speaker 4: And we constantly like want to meet up with Melissa
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  Speaker 4: and everybody else, like downstairs at REPUBLICA pause. It's actually
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  Speaker 4: and the fact that Quentin jumped in has been like
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  Speaker 4: an absolute gift.
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  Speaker 2: Man, it's been really, really awesome.
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  Speaker 1: It's been so awesome that you're here. Man, You've been
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  Speaker 1: helping us with formatting so much like we run.
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  Speaker 3: Away that we all have final draft on our computers.
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  Speaker 3: It's like something that is so such.
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  Speaker 1: A privilege, like actually in La like it doesn't happen
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  Speaker 1: a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's been really really cool. And I and I
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  Speaker 2: and I want to say, like before you guys, I
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  Speaker 2: actually didn't have friends that I was considering moving home
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  Speaker 2: because my mom needs a lot of help. But it's
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  Speaker 2: been really nice to be here because it's like it's
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  Speaker 2: maybe realized that my mom can deal with her own stuff,
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  Speaker 2: like and.
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  Speaker 1: She's like, like, that's like because like a lot of
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  Speaker 1: writing is like are we writing? Are we talking about
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  Speaker 1: like what's kind of going on in our lives? To
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  Speaker 1: get that juice And that's like a big thing we've
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  Speaker 1: been talking and helping you through is like letting your
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  Speaker 1: mom deal with her illness by herself, like.
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  Speaker 2: Melissa, You've you've told me, Melissa, like you you've specifically
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  Speaker 2: told me MS has good days and bad days and
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  Speaker 2: like you.
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  Speaker 3: Told me, and it does and like it does. And
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  Speaker 3: I think there's beauty in that. And I think it's
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  Speaker 3: your responsibility as a writer.
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  Speaker 1: To to capture that, to capture capture that.
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  Speaker 3: I think the best way for you to help your
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  Speaker 3: mom is to funnel it into your screenplay.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, And I've been funneling funneling it into our format.
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  Speaker 2: Can we talk about ye yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: say yes.
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  Speaker 5: What the synopsis is?
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  Speaker 1: Actually? Actually, I think like a lot of people will
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  Speaker 1: be wondering that, and I'm actually really excited to talk
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 3: That's what's so exciting about this. Did anyone have the
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  Speaker 3: one pager?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah I could. I guess I can go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and get started. You guys want me to read it?
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  Speaker 2: I can really? Okay? Cool?
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  Speaker 6: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: So the project is is really exciting project.
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  Speaker 1: So basically what the project is, it's like this really
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  Speaker 1: fun thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, go ahead, yes, So actually what the project is
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  Speaker 3: is like it's sort of an examination of like.
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  Speaker 5: Actually what the project is mean it starts in a
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  Speaker 5: little town.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well actually it's actually sort of a big town.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And like actually maybe what's actually more important than
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  Speaker 1: that actually is to understand kind of the genre, which
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  Speaker 1: is like Goony's adjacent, Like it's Goony's adjacent. So I think, like,
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  Speaker 1: actually that's kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of the most it's Goony's adjacent. But I also want
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  Speaker 3: to like I would be remiss if we didn't mention
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  Speaker 3: our comps, which our tenant meets ninety day Fiance meets
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  Speaker 3: broad City exactly exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So like but actually I think what's really important
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  Speaker 1: is to understand the heart behind it, and the heart
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  Speaker 1: behind it is kind of a coming of age story
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 2: When a font size twelve, the FONTA sized the font,
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  Speaker 2: the fonts, the font of the script is size twelve.
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  Speaker 3: And that's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: And that's awesome, thank you and that's so awesome, totally
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  Speaker 1: thank you.
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  Speaker 3: What do you have it in career?
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  Speaker 2: It's in it's in final, it's in courier final draft font.
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  Speaker 2: It's the traditional font.
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  Speaker 3: God, that's so awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I actually downloaded a lot of free fonts online
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  Speaker 2: and I tried them out because I thought it would
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  Speaker 2: be really fun to try them. I used the encanto
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  Speaker 2: font for a long time and I thought it would
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  Speaker 2: be really fun to.
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  Speaker 1: See it was a mess. That was an absolute mess.
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  Speaker 2: For a while.
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  Speaker 1: I could not read that thing. I was never really
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  Speaker 1: like read and get.
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  Speaker 2: It was really dumb.
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  Speaker 1: But so anyway, yeah, so basically what.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead?
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  Speaker 1: So basically what it's about, it's a group of kids
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  Speaker 1: find the stone and they realize this stone is gone
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  Speaker 1: kind of an answer for them. So what the stone
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  Speaker 1: can do is they can send them in reverse or
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  Speaker 1: send them ten years forward. At least that's where it lies.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, and we actually in the.
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  Speaker 3: Next draft, we and we've talked about this a little
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  Speaker 3: bit over text, but we haven't like actually confirmed it.
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  Speaker 3: The next draft, we want to implement the fact that
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  Speaker 3: they are getting married to people in other countries and
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  Speaker 3: that's why they're time traveling. That's not in the current draft,
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  Speaker 3: but that's where we're headed.
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  Speaker 5: That's where I're going.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So, like our current draft right now is about
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  Speaker 1: how long is it? It's about sixty pages.
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  Speaker 2: Let me put up right now, it's actually one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and forty five pages.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, it's one hundred and forty five pages. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: a lot of that is just notes because it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like for me, it's like a lot of like
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  Speaker 1: is this scene finished or are there a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: Thoughts on it?
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  Speaker 1: Like us to kind of writing about what it is.
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  Speaker 1: And I know, Okay, we're like so excited because we
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  Speaker 1: finished it, and now we're going to go back and
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  Speaker 1: rewrite it like a little bit more polished, and we're
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  Speaker 1: going to add a bunch of.
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  Speaker 3: Things, you know, And we've devised this awesome system where
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  Speaker 3: like if anyone has a comment, they write it in
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  Speaker 3: as dialogue below the dialogue and they bowled it so,
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: but you have to say it in the voice of
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  Speaker 3: the characters we've already used.
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  Speaker 4: And it's absolutely such a good idea that I actually
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  Speaker 4: emailed Greta Goerwick and Noah bomback myself and said, we
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  Speaker 4: figured out a perfect way to communicate between writers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because like we love Barbie, but we thought their
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  Speaker 1: communication was a little lacking, so we wanted to give
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  Speaker 1: them a little bit of a suggestion.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you could tell they were they weren't on
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  Speaker 2: the same page when they were writing it. You could
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  Speaker 2: tell in the writing.
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  Speaker 5: And it's like, we're literally on the same page.
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  Speaker 3: But what literally on the same page?
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  Speaker 2: I will say, I will say it, and please cut
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  Speaker 2: me off if this is an issue, but but I
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: will say that sometimes it feels a little bit like
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: we begin to give each other notes on the tone
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: in which the character is giving notes, but I don't know. Okay,
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: you're right, I'm actually fucking lying, like it's crazy, No
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: what I'm no, I'm lying like I'm.
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: Lying, Quentin. I'm lying, Quentin. And we have these moments
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: where we get to help you each other.
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: Working as a big group, we get to help each
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: other like an ensemble Wood, Quentin, you're not lying, You're
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: telling the truth.
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: Okay, okay, And Quentin's right.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: We sometimes write notes in the notes of the character,
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: in the voice of the character.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of like a writing exercise. Every once
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: in a while. It is difficult to tell whether we're
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: speaking in note or whether we're speaking in dialogue. But
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: I think it's been so useful because I like it's
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: helping us solve these little disagreements. Like I think we're
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: having something we're kind of circling around, is we can't
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: really decide if the main character, Johnny Pockets, is sixty
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: or twenty, right.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: And that's been a debate, and that's kind of like
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: that's like a like a die on the Hill kind
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: of debate that we're going through.
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: And we have two documents, ones called sixty one's twenty,
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: like the title, and like how we go back and forth.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was my responsibility. I mean, those two doctors.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: I'm on boat twenty, I'm on Bout twenty. I just
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: feel like it's a better choice for the movie. His
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: name is Johnny Pockets. He's a really fun guy, Like
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: he's like just out of high school and like he
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: reminds me of myself, and I hope that I can play,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Like we've talked about this, like I really hope I
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: can play. But yeah, it's kind of the right.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: You write very different dialogue for Johnny Pockets than I do.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Like he's kind of always on a skateboard and doing
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: sort of like epic cool guy stuff I've noticed, like
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: it seems like and he's like sort of dating a lot.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Like he's like dating really so much. He's dating so much,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: and that's you guys call me out. And I thought
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: it was fair. It kind of turned into my life's
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: fan fiction a little bit, like if I was dating
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: a lot, that's like what it would be.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Like we ultimately have to remember this as a
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Times travel story of a sixty year old man, right,
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: because we agree Johnny is an older name, so he
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: has to be sixty, right.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: I would also like for him to be twenty because
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: twenty when you spell it out, has less letters than
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: sixty ixty versus D W N T Y, So if.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: You definitely more letters twenty one, Oh sorry, I'm sorry.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, So I guess I wanted to be I
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: guess I wanted to be sixty because.
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: I want, and what do you want?
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know. What do you think I want? What
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: should I want? Sculler, what should I want?
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: You should want twenty?
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I want twenty?
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Here we go, Okay, I just shifting gears for one second,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: because we could go in circles on this all day long.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: So let's talk about being a four person writing team, right,
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: let's do it.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Let's discuss it, Like, what.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Is your guys' favorite platform on which to communicate with
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: each other? Mine is group me, and we have a few.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Well, I like texting, but it's tough because I have
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: an Android, so we can't do an I chat group
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: text so hard.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: I hate that and some people, some people, Melissa will
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: not stop liking things even though it messes up the format.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: And we see that Melissa liked it. Melissa liked it,
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: and we're telling Melissa it clogs up the feet.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Well that it's tough because then I remember that I'm
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: not supposed to like it, so I unlike it, but
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: then it feels rude, so I like it again and
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: we get notifications for both.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Group me is tough for me because it's attached to
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: my college email and so I can never log in again.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Which feels like a problem with the platform. But I
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: cannot figure out how to make a new account, and
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I cannot figure out how to reconnect my old account
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: to my new account.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: So the one con with group me is that on
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: it is that only three of us.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Are on it, so you guys a lot is It's
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: kind of frustrating for me because a lot of discussions
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: about meetings and that will happen on the group me,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: and I have to constantly remind you, guys, I'm not
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: on the group me. I'm not on the group me.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: And then sometimes you'll say you're not on the group me.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: And Melissa will like it on the normal message story,
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: but the Android, and then we won't see it, and
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: we didn't I will.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: I will say, though Skylar's Instagram DM group is one
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: of the most difficult ones for me to get behind me.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: I think I can't.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: I can't get in that because I told you I'm verified,
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: so it goes to my message requests and I don't
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: know where that is, so I can't get in.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we got to say Melissa's verify. Yeah.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: And sometimes Melissa will communicate through x on Mobiles Instagram account,
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: which is just too confused.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Sorry, go ahead, but it's gonna get me in trouble. No,
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: that's it.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: No, sometimes I do. I accidentally sent our script to
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: X on mobile ones and then they got really interested.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: But I thought it was you emailing from them, but
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: it was somebody else.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: It was my boss is interested because she like kind
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: of is having sort of like a crisis of conscience
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: and she like wants to go into entertainment or something.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: I don't know, Like Judy's really random.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Can I just say, and I'm sorry, this is a
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: huge take. Can I just say when bosses take their
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: subserviences hobbies as their own as a way to explore
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: their own personal life outside of work, I think that's
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: actually not healthy.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's really cool.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Thank you for finally talk about this.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know, did I think.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: That's the first real thing you've ever seen.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: This is what I'm lying on your voice.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: You're working.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I will say, though, to call Quintin out a little bit.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Don't don't please don't, please, don't please don't. I was
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: just going to bring up how you love emails, but
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: you love emails and oh my.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: God, he's sweating so much.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: And the thing that you'll do is you'll have a
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: thread of an email with all four of us, but
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: then you'll only reply one of us sometimes to get
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: specific emails. And it's like, I've got a thread of
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: two hundred emails. I can't figure out information that's like
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: six emails before.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: And I will apologize for that, and I'll make cookies
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: if I if I accidentally email you when I'm supposed
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: to group email, because that's so much labor on your
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: end and that's so rude of me, and I'm really
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: sorry about that.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: That's funny.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Hey, I won't do it again.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: So maybe what we should talk about now is like,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: actually what happens in our meetings, because I know what
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: you guys are thinking is like, how do you guys
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: get stuff done? Like what is this like determination meetings
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: you have? So what we do first is we have
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: to figure out how to set a meeting.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: And I was gonna say, we have to get to
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: the meeting first.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so like booking a meeting is sometimes really tough.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, sorry, go ahead before you say that. Quentin, Monday's
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: worked all the time, and then Mondays it worked because
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: someone had gymnastics.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: I don't remember who gymnastics.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: Thank you the girl and then Tuesdays. We did Tuesdays
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: every time. But then someone at swimming who had swimming.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: I, well, it's it's it's called swimming pool. It's an
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: open mic that I do, and it jump into the
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: swimming pool and it's an open mic I do. And
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I've just got that commitment and it starts at four
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: and you have to put your name in at three
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: thirty to get in, and then you have to wait
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: until seven to see if you play.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: There is a brief time that we met every week
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: at Saturday at eleven pm because that was when uh,
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: like my shift at Republic of Pies ended, and that.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Was when my dates end. Like I really I have
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: eight pm to eleven pm blocked off every Saturday and
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Friday night just in case I get asked out.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Well, this is actually huge on Rayah. I don't know
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: if you guys know this, but that's how she's she's.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: Under her name and agent says social I'm verified.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: I'm a Riah influencer in that I go on so
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: many dates that they did verify me because you know,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: I could get catfished whenever, like not trying to be like,
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: oh I'm so beautiful or anything, but like I could
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: get cat fished.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Remember when we matched.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that was really funny. That was really funny,
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: so weird, so funny.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: We bounced around for like meeting times kind of like
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: depending on the month, like for a while, and then
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: finally I got my shift moved from public a pie,
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: So then we started working on Wednesdays at two.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Wednesdays at two, which I thought was the best time.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: That was the best time. But I was audio only
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: and Printon was video only.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I was video. I was video only.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Because you had your job, right, you're.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because I do close captioning for my job, do
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: coach chat capturing for Judge Judy, and I needed I
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: needed my ears entirely for that.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: And I was audio only because I was expressing a
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: body language in a TikTok via in exonmobile And that
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: was really just like a funny.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: By because I had to zoom from the coffee shop
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: near my house because that's when my roommate was taking
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: over the living room, so I I couldn't make noise,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: so I had.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: To And that's so funny because Wednesdays at two fifteen,
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: I get in a bad mood every time.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's when your coffee runs out.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: It was like, yeah, middle of the week, middle of
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: the day, I'm cranky, and it's it's a British thing.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: And so yeah, So if you're young for a person
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: writing team and you're looking for some advice to how
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: to structure your meetings, like, we kind of follow a
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: system that's worked pretty well for us. And this is
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: for meetings in which we're all in person.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: We all like, yeah, we try the best, which are
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: the best.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: It's really good because one of my favorites Yeah, sorry, go.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Ahead, no, and they probably happened, like, I don't know,
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: once every like four or five months.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we use my, we use my use my, we
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: use my projector and it's really fun and we and
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: we we we projected the script up onto the big.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: White damn get hold you there right there.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, go ahead, come off, come off. I
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: was lying, I was lying.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: No, you were We used the projector every once in
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: a while, I was lying, Well.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: I love it because it's kind of like the one
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: computer method. So there's four of us and there's one computer,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: and we're all looking at the projector giving thoughts at
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the same time. So only one of us can type.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Quentin is in charge of typing, but a lot of
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: us can give thoughts at any point and that's kind
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: of the rule. So how it works though, usually what
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: happens is we're we're following our own method. We get
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: we usually arrive whenever we arrivee it takes us about
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: maybe two hours to get started actually get stuck in,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: like we've got a lot to talk about, a lot
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: to catch up.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we have like thirty minutes of like you know,
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: structured small talk, where like most small talk you're kind
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: of just like free flowing, and like that's not what
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: we're trying to do this as a business meeting. So
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: we have these like conversation cards where we talk about
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: different topics like Okay, if you're a beach ball, what
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: beach ball would you be, like stuff like that, Yeah,
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: to sort of like get like it's it's really driven
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: small talk, and.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: It's interesting sometimes like some people feel like a small
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: beach ball and some people feel like a heavy beach ball,
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: and it's fun to like meet in the middle and
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: just like figure it out.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's tough because usually one of us is
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: coming in with a lot of baggage that we have
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: to talk through. So like we will do that and
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: we'll talk through everybody's baggage for you.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Know, baggage. Yeah, and then we kind of push the
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: structured small talk. Like it ends up getting pushed. So
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: usually by hour one we're on to structured small talk.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: But then so we'll we'll do and we do.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Then we do the yeah, we do the writing exercise.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: We all yeah exercise. We have to mention to you,
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: like as soon as we start meeting, if we're in person,
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: like and I start typing, as you guys know, I
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: get wired in and so every single thing that said,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: I start writing and so it goes into the script.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: And then we have to figure out, oh, that was
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: a conversation that they were having about kudoba grill. We
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: have to cut that out. Oh that was a conversation
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: that was that was our altercation, that was a conversation.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: To cut those out. So we have to figure out
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: what was part of the script and actually wasn't. Why
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: am I am I screaming? I'm sorry?
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: No, of course not, and ask for our rule. You
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: do have to say everything that we say in the
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: characters voices sold to be honest to dig through.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: It was really odd when you were like doubling and
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: doing Judge Judy at the same time.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: I know, because it was just it was odd.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: I quit too much.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: No, I know, I know, I know. I had Judge
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Judy and this, I had my my, my, my, my
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: eleven to three job, and then I have our our script.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: And you guys were right. I was. I was doing
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: too much, and of course my freaking mom and so
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: I was doing too much. And so I told my
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: mom was not gonna see you anymore. And I and
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: I told you Judy, you guys can find somebody else.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: And they did quickly. They did so fast.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: And you don't desert to bullets.
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: Ok I want to go back, Okay, go back. Not
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: to cut you off, Quintin, No, no, please do.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: I'm actually I don't even know what I'm saying, by
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: the way, silly.
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: What I want to say is that we have to
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: remind each other this.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: All the time, that if you don't treat this script
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: like it's a paying job, it will never become a
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: paying job.
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, Like I.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: Use the time in which I could be working at
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: Republic of Pies like I would be making money. That's
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: the time when we're sitting around talking about which beach
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: ball we are, that is paying me in a different way.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: And like I foresee for us one hundred thousand dollars
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: in the future split four ways. That is what's coming,
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: that's what's at the end of the road, and that's
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: what we're driving to. So like, if you think about it,
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: and we've been working on this script for what six years?
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Six years?
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you can't you can't count pandemic though even
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: though we did meet on Zoom a bunch, we can't count.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: It and process.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: And by the way, it's not over. Pandemic's not over.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: So this this currently doesn't count.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: And you know, we get to patch yourself on the
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: back and go we did it. We wrote a script
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: during the pandemic.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it may not be out of the pandemic. We're
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: really gonna wrap up this script.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Well that is, I mean, that's my favorite part. One
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: my favorite parts of our meetings are one when we
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: all listen to a ten minute motivation podcast together and agree,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: and I love the writing exercises. Sometimes I wish that
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: we could turn our writing exercises into a script. And
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: then my favorite.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Tyler as the craziest request. They're all like they're all
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: really mean, Like they all feel really targeted. What what
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: does your writing prompts that you give us? Like they're like,
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: like write for ten minutes on like why Melissa is
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: so weird?
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: So personalized, they're so personalized.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: Yes, and like just piggybacking off of what Quentin said personalized,
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: I think I think that.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, sorry, I'm guys that I'm really sorry.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: It counts sound.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: The day Quintin you've ruined the day.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: I'll say that I I find it and maybe it's
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: maybe it's because I'm British, but like I like to
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: call people out, and I like to call people out
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: in a way where it's just like like like last
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: week's writing exercise was sean, explain your hygiene regiment and
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: we'll all write notes on how we think you can
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: improve it.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: That was that spiraled me out. I'm still kind of
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: spiraling out because I thought I had a good hygiene
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: regiment and you guys had and thoughts.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: But like just the way that we punch up each
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: other's jokes and dialogue, we should be able to punch
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: up each other's lives and that's how we will become
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: fondly one mind.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: M hm. And that's like what we're always aiming for
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: is like becoming one mind and finishing this screenplay.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: It would be almost easy if there's one of us
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: I actually have I actually have a question, and you
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: guys don't have to answer it. You guys can ignore
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: it that I asked it as soon as I ask
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: you one. But it's a question that my dad asked me,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: and I think it's good for all of us. What
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: percentage of the script do you think is all of
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: our voices? So like what percentage of the script is
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: your voice? What percent of the script is my voice?
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Like what do you guys think, like you can seak
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: for yourself, I would say.
• 31:39
  Speaker 7: One, Yeah, I would have to agree with Sean.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: I do think it is one percent my voice. And
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: I really feel like there's a lot of myself in here,
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: and I just feel like it's such a deeply personal
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: story to me, the story of Tennant and Johnny Pockets
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: is like so so personal that I really feel connected
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: to the material. And I think we've all shared fifty
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: to fifty.
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: Yes, I was.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: Gonna say I feel fifty to fifty about it in
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: a way that it's one hundred percent of my voice.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I get that you feel fifty fiftycause it's
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: a hundred percent of your voice, but you've always felt
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: fifty to fifty about the whole project.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: Well, that's just because I'm always one foot in, one
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: foot out of everything.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Once your your other foot is in a really interesting
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: short right.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: Now, yes, yes, one about a baby on the streets
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: of London Town looking for his lollipop.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: I loved reading this short like you. You wrote the
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: first five pages and you're like, I'm so excited to
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: finish this and shoot this thing.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: The first five pages are so so good once you
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: figure out that you you were lollipop.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, all pomp is on the ground somewhere and
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: it's a dirty, dirty lollipop. And thank you Quentin for
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: saying the first five pages are good. But that's what
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: it's like to have one foot in, one foot out.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: I have one foot deep in a short and one
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: foot one hundred percent. That foot is one hundred percent
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: in our script.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, And that's why.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: I quit Republic of Pause, because because I want to
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: be two hundred percent in both of my writing projects.
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: And then another three hundred percent in my morning pages.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, well, I love when you read your morning
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: pages to us. That's one of my favorite.
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: It's my most on his self.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Also, another favorite thing of mine that we do is
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: at the end we always do roses and thorns about
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: the meeting and.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: The script after scheduling.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: And I guess for me a rose right now is
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: you guys are some of my best friends, and I
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: love meeting with you guys. Yeah. One of my thorns
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: is that when three of us meet and one of
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: us doesn't always happens. That when the fourth person that
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: wasn't there reads it, they say no and they delete
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: everything that we wrote. Feeding they just they feel like
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: they didn't come up with it, so they don't get it.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: But yeah, my rose, and okay, I'm sorry. I guess
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: we're just doing it live now. This is so fun.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: This is so fun, they'll love this.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: Love.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: My roads is that we all look like bad ass
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: bitches today and we all are dressed like I'm sorry,
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: we are bad ass bitches, and we.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Like yeah, especially you, especially you will.
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: Oh my god, a boy.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, a bad ass bitch. I'm talking genderless here,
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: I'm talking about bad ass bitch as like a as
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: an entity, as a state of mind. Like it's like
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: when you put on your shoes and you walk into
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: your office and ex on mobile and you're thinking, I
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: am a bad ass bitch today and I have somewhere
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: to go. My thorn is that every time we meet,
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: it seems like this script gets less done.
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: Okay, so that's it. Okay.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: I don't want to be I like you being honest.
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, and I don't want to be weird or anything.
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: But I was like actually thinking that too, and I've
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: been actually thinking this a bit before that, Like sometimes
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: I feel like when we are together, it's hard to
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: do any everything but the script.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, Like we have so much fun with the
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: writing exercises and then we just start fighting, fighting so
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: hard when the script gets brought up. It's like been
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: kind of crazy like that.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: It's just like anxiety inducing. No, sorry, Quentin, go ahead.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Is nothing. This is like really nothing, and okay, I'll speak.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: I think something that's a little hard for me. And
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: this is kind of a semi thorn. But I don't
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: really have thorns. It's almost like a nub. It's like
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: a nub it's like you're cutting down the roads, like
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't ever have a thorn. But all the pride
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: messages I get from all of you asking me to
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: change things in the in the masterscript before the meeting,
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: I think is causing us a little bit. And and
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: I might actually just be kind of speaking out of
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: my butt and line, I think.
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: That's your butt speaking.
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: Okay, I think that's your butt speaking.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: It's just how we work. It's just how we work.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: If we want an idea in, we try to sneak
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: it in without anybody noticing. That's the healthiest way to
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: get it out.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: The healthiest way to write is if you can sneak
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: it in before you've discussed it with your team.
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: And because here's the thing.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: Once they see it, once they see the idea and
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: it's realized for it, they'll know it's good and they'll
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: know that it's good that we didn't even talk about
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: it first.
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: And truly, I'll say this, if you pitch just an
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: idea without doing it, we all have to talk about it.
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: Really, I'm gonna have to see.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: It's a nightmare to just even online getting past one line,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, getting.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: Pitching one thing Okay, here's how it goes. Somebody pitches
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: one thing, we then have to talk about, uh, why
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: it won't work, why it would work, a personal connection
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: to the pitch that happened that day and an unrelated
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: piece of trauma that someone is working through right now.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Absolutely every line.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Pitched is probably like a thirty minute process.
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: It's that or we email Quinton secretly in the middle
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: of the night and ask me to push something in.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but so so it's totally stupid. But it's affecting
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: my sleep. It's totally stupid. It's totally well, I think
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: a good.
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: Artist not to cut you off that when is not sleeping.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: Well, show me a good artist and tell me they
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: get eight hours.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: I get eight hours pretty solidly, does it? I think
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: most of us get a hours besides Quinton, Yeah, I.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: Actually sleep twelve hours a day. I'm sleeping really well.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because I also and I did want to bring
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: that up, because it when when you email somebody via boomerang,
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: which is you schedule email, it tells them and I
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: do believe that you because are scheduling emails for it.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Really it does, it does this is actually does it
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: actually disaster for me? Actually wait, wait, this is actually
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: really if we need to test this after this is
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: actually a huge thing to.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: Like, actually, i'm finding this out right now. Schedule.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Actually, you never sent me to every year of my life.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: I was one of the first people to download Boomerang.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: I was like first three thousand people to download, and
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: I've been doing it.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: Everything actually makes them look less weird. Setting it in
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: a more normal.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Three am writing an episode, I said at nine thirty,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: and now you're telling me people can tell that it's
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: been actually crazier.
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: Okay, because I know this is like probably like an
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: autistic comedy podcast or whatever, but we should be for
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: one hundred percent positive.
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: Are you kidding, Quentin?
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: I actually so, I actually do think I'm lying. I
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: actually think that I might be lying, And okay.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: God, because I was having breakdown. I was having a
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: little bit of a panic that.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: I'm really sorry guys keeping this.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: Is humor, this is human I want to trust you
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: with more. I want to give you the permission to
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: write dialogue, but unfortunately you keep lying.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: Just und I understand what I did was hurtful, and
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: I really understand that I'm really sorry. I hope I
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: can make up for it. So so just let me know.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: And I am I'm going to be beating myself up
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: about this for the rest of my life. Yeah.
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: I think that a good artist should get either two
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: hours or eleven to fourteen.
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: I mean, if you're getting in the middle, like an
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: eight hour, like a doctor regiment, I think that's for
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: average people. Maybe I'm British. Maybe it's not an American thing.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, so here's a question.
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: Okay, like everyone.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Even, No, I didn't. I didn't, So I am. I'm
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: deeply lost in my own Sorry, I'm sorry, stupid Quentin. Well,
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: it's they should have killed you at the church. They
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: should have killed you in the baptism.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: See, this is good dialogue. This is you gotta save this.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: This is some good dialogue.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: The price should have left you in the water at Quintin.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Wait should that.
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: In Johnny's monologue when he's when he's getting together with Rose.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: It's already in there. I think because we talked about
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: this before. Have we talked about before? I guess I've
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: said it to myself. Sometimes I put my own thoughts
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: in the script.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Well, it's hard sometimes because it I think what's really
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: happened now is like we've really kind of like developed
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: long standing light beefs. I wouldn't call them beefs. I
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: wouldn't call them beasts. But I do feel like if
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: I say something, Skyler will always disagree with it.
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: I love what you say.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: If Skyler says something, Melissa will definitely disagree with it.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's like these long standing things.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: I love all your ideas, lot of it.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: Some of it has to do with interpersonal like past
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: dating history.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's like you guys always call me out
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: for defending what Melissa says too much, and I'm like, guys, it's.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: No, I disagree, I would I.
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: Agree, I would disagree. I don't call you out for that.
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: I usually, yeah, you disagree that I that I disagree.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: And you're always right though, but you're always right when
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: because I'm always up to some funck shit, you know
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: what I mean, Like I'm always.
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: Whoa Quentin turning down.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm sorry, but that's what you call it. It's
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: what you call it.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: Well, And the awesome thing that we're doing consciously as
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: a four person writing team is that we just got
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: into couples therapy. So we have booked two therapists. They're
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: gonna work as a team to work on us two
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: by two, So we'll go in in groups of two
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: and then eventually the goal is to merge all the
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: sessions so that it's four of us.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: That's one person. There's one person that he lives in
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: see Me Valley. He does quadruples there, but he's so expensive.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: So the script it's like, it's like it's almost like
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: the catch twenty two because we want to sell the
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: script so we can afford the quadruples therapy, but we
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: can't afford quadruples therapy until we sell the script.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true exactly.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: And I like WGA insurance does not cover quadruples therapy
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: or couples therapy.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: And none of us are WGA No, But it's nice
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: to think about it. It's nice to think about what
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: they include or don't include.
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good to know these things for when we
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: sell it, which we like. And I've been doing a
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: lot of I did a corporate retreat with Exxon Mobile
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: and we did You're welcome. Well, I just want to
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: be sure there's it's not like, oh I was mispronouncing
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: elon musk or something. I don't know, something crazy, But
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: we've been doing a lot of manifesting and something I
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: realized during an icebreaker session with my coworkers is like
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: two truths that a lie. One of my truths was
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: we are going to sell this script and I knew
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: that to be true, and so I am going to
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: and you're manifesting that, and I'm manifesting that every day.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: So when you play, when you were playing, one of
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: your truths was I'm gonna I'm going to sell a
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: script with my writers group, that's what you have to do.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: You have to make it so true to you that
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: you would say it in to truth in a lie, I've.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Never heard that playing teachers in line with a future manifestation, that's.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: How to do it.
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: That's get in manifestation and to truth in a liar.
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: Maybe it's a British thing, but.
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: In a li of things that have happened, No, I
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: think they live in a pretty similar world. Like if
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: you know something is fact, like we're going to sell
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: this script, that's fact.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: That's fact.
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, that's fact.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: And if people are mad.
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: Then people are mad.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: That's why my Instagram put bio I put like award
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: winning script seller of a four person script. That's in
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: my Instagram bio.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: And this is an award for selling scripts.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a word for all. No, it's an award
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: for who sells the script the best. And that's what
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: I put in my bio. And then underneath, I have
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: a world in traveling and where I am uh and
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: I'm always in Los Angeles, so that is never moving around.
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: So a big question people ask us all the time
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: as a person, right that when will it be done?
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: When do you guys think it'll be done?
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: I actually think, I actually think that it could be done.
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: Well, there's our pilot that we always think about when
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: we're drunk.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, so there's a couple of things, Like the
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: question is like what are we trying to get done?
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Because we can turnplay into a limited series, we can
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: turn into a pilot. It's so ready to be a feature.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: It's so it's like, so what are we trying to thin?
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: What's your question?
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Like what you I mean? What I was?
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: Sorry?
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: Sorry?
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: No, I meant like a rhetorical like like.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: Why don't you back off the Skyler? Why don't you
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: back off? Why don't you back off of her?
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: And Sean, I would encourage you to back off of
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: Skyler Quentin.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: I'm really guys, I'm really sorry, guys. I think I
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: think I just caused that tension. I'm really sorry. Can
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: wait permission to mention our table read Skyler?
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: Okay, permission.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: We're doing the table ring next week and I'm pretty
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: excited about it.
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: So we're doing a table read with Justice for.
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: I disagree, Sean, I disagree.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: So we're doing a table read Justice for It, and
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: we're really excited to give ourselves notes and feedback. OK.
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: You, guys, I think you said my girlfriend Magenta can come.
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: She's really.
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: I think Magenta should come, and I think she should
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: listen to the dialogue.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: She like pitches so much. She just like has so
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: many ideas about our script. And I really I'm sorry, Skyler.
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: I just get the sense that you're trying to bring
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: in a fifth person.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: I always sometimes I think the room is a tad
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: quiet Melissa.
• 46:16
  Speaker 5: How how could it be? Yeah? Sometimes I think, I
• 46:23
  Speaker 5: mean fine, I'll say it.
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: Sometimes I think we're lacking confidence, and that's why we've
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: never finished the script.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: I certainly I'm fucking trash, So it makes sense. What
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: I would say is a skyler I would talk to
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: you about maybe we did have like a little discussion,
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: and maybe I'm making it up. Maybe we didn't have it,
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: but I do think that we talked about how Jinta's
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: not well and Tinda's not allowed to come back to
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: the apartment because every time she comes over and you're
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: in the bathroom, she runs into my she runs into
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: my room and she cuts the crash out of on
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: my pants.
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a concern. I like when Quentin brought that up,
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: I was like, well, who's to say if that happened
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: or not.
• 47:02
  Speaker 8: But when you broa fage, I think it's very easy, Quentin,
• 47:06
  Speaker 8: you and I as men, it's easy for us to
• 47:09
  Speaker 8: gaslight her into thinking she is cutting out the cutch
• 47:13
  Speaker 8: of the pants.
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: Sure, and you're right. I'm I think I'm totally fucking her.
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: I think I'm gaslighting her and and I'm really sorry
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: about that, and I won't do that again.
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: Maybe I'm a British thing, but I think that's gaslight here.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: No. Sure, and you're right, and maybe and maybe I
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: did that, and maybe I'm just completely misremembering it. And
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: I'm just like I think I'm.
• 47:35
  Speaker 5: Being I think I'm cut you off right there, and
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: I hate to interrupt you.
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: I really hate to interrupt you, but I'm going to
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: cut you off and say that Magenta will come to
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: the read through. But I need Magenta at some point
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: when the script is over. I want her to experience
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: it because she just I'll tell you guys the truth.
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: I don't want you guys to have a bad look
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: on Magenta. But she thinks we're never going to finish
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: the script.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: Well, but that's crazy because I feel like we're a
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: week away, literally, like so close to finishing it.
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: I know, like it's it's any day now, Like it
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: is any day now. And I'm honestly, Skyler, I don't
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: know if that's the right person for you, if they're
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: gonna like put that energy out there, like that's such
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: a wild and baseless and borderline abusive thing to say.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: It's kind of a fucking crazy ass move for her
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: to say that. And I love women, but I don't
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: fucking trust that bitch.
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: Well, to be honest, she was like she said it
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: like like oh beat it with the screen Rogers again
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: at three pm today and two am on Tuesday, and
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: she was like, wow, you guys have been working on
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: that for what six years?
• 48:44
  Speaker 5: I never think you're gonna finish it.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: Well, can I just say one thing. I feel like
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: we got a little sidetracked when during like twenty twenty,
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: during COVID, you and Melissa started writing your own script together,
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: and so me and Quinton try to start to write
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: our own script together, like different ideas. Okay, likes a.
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: Play, Sean, it was a play and a script a different.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: You guys were hooking up, So you guys decided to
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: do your own project, and so what were we left
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: to do?
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: Then?
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: Me and we had to come up with something. We
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: tried to write a sketch show and it didn't go well.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: It was a zoom sketch show.
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: Clicked on that Zoom sketch show link. I clicked on
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: that Zoom sketch show link, and you know what, I
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: watched a lot of problematic shit that was mine.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: All the problematic stuff was mine. I've been told.
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: So, Quintin, look, we had to write that play. I'm sorry, Sean, Like,
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Quintin, Like I don't want you guys to
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: ever feel left out, but like we had a singular
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: experience like this play was begging for us to write it.
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: Okay, Sometimes I don't know how to describe it to you.
• 49:47
  Speaker 4: Sometimes you hook up and write a play after and
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: you don't know.
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: What happened exactly. And this play is about us hooking up,
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: like it's about the sex we were having. It's about
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: the fucking. Okay, I can't bring you guys in on
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: that play because the play is as singular as us fucking.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: And at least at least you know, at least we
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: finish our sketch show, because where's your play? Where's your play? Guys,
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: where's your play?
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: None of your business, Sean.
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: Just because you invited us to your zoom sketch show
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: doesn't mean I have to invite you to my cathotic
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: like like sex play that I wrote once in a
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: dream state because the shrooms were half off.
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: The shroms were half off. It was COVID deal, so
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: it was nice. But we are now that we're bringing
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: it up, we're gonna do a table read next year.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: Of the play of the play, of the.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: Play of the play.
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: You have the play because it look it it. We
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: we just decided recently that you know, though our relationship
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: is over, maybe the art will live on, and so
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: we're working on getting a space for twenty twenty five.
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: I've been waiting for Magenta's approval, and she finally gave it.
• 51:06
  Speaker 5: Then I can read my sex play. I needed my
• 51:10
  Speaker 5: girlfriend to give me her approval for my sex play.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: She was in the hospital because of all those foreign
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: objects they found in her stomach. Right what, Quentin?
• 51:21
  Speaker 5: What?
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: She was in the hospital for all the foign objects
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: they found in her stomach. Not like not the crosh
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: of my pants, obviously because I made that up, but
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: you know that hospital. She was in the hospital for
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: foreign objects in her stomach.
• 51:31
  Speaker 5: Right well, Quentin, that sounds like a hipo violation to me.
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: Quintin sh when you raise your voice, you just released
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: people's medical history.
• 51:41
  Speaker 5: Quentin, I'm sorry.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: God should be going to jail. I should be in jail.
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: Okay, Quentin. Can I ask you something that I've never
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: asked you before?
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: Do you use anything?
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: Do you want to be a writer?
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: Oh? I guess I've never thought about it. Can I
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: get back to you.
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: No, Quentin, I want you to answer this for yourself
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: right now. I want you to look at me and
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: tell me two truths and a lie, and one of
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: those will be about whether or not you want to
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: be a writer, and you have to decide what's the
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: truth and what's the lie.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'll do it. My first truth is that I
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: lost my virginity when I was fourteen years old.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's true. He keeps on talking about
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: it to.
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: Me, Sean, I disagree.
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: My second truth.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: Is that we can't hear you.
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: I can't hear you.
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: My second truth is that when I write sometimes I
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: feel like my hands are covered in pins and the
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: only way to get them off is to put on
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: energy through my fingers, and they shoot out with each
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: word and letter and indentation. My third truth is that
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: gummy bears stick to the top of my mouth sometimes
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: if I eat them. If I if I bite them
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: a certain way, they get stuck in my gums, and
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: then I go to the dentist and they say, you've
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: been eating too much candy.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm confused because none of those were about finishing
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: the screen.
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: Foot Yeah, I'm confused. Why you didn't use one of
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: your truths to manifest selling the script? Lie.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm thinking, and I'm thinking about it, and I
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: actually know which one the lie was.
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: Okay? Was the lie the gummy bears?
• 53:52
  Speaker 5: No?
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: Is that I lost my virginity when I was twenty six?
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: Dang, what do you keep talking about? I don't listen.
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: This has been Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists,
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: answering the question. Now, that's why they call it showbiz.
• 54:06
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• 54:08
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