I just followed the rules, isolated, which was for me not a big deal, because I like staying inside. I’ve had mosquito bites that were more vexatious than this bout of COVID, if I can call it a bout. John: 99% of all COVID in North America is that.Ĭraig: It really was a nothing. If you are vaccinated, and particularly boosted, especially with Omicron, which I suspect is what I had, as it is incredibly. Now it mostly discriminately kills people.

This was a disease that was indiscriminately killing people. For the rest of us who are normal and smart and understand facts, this is miraculous. I have to just take a moment to salute the scientists and researchers and everyone, honestly everyone who worked to create the Moderna vaccine, which is the only one I’ve taken, but I’m sure that everybody at Pfizer deserves the same, and all the other places that have worked so hard to do this, because I’m not going to bother with the anti-vax people. I tested positive for COVID, and my symptoms were nothing.

I test constantly, because I am in a production. Chekhov’s gun finally went off this last week for us on the show.Ĭraig: Boom, right in my face. It was actually in a Bonus Segment talking about COVID. John: First, Craig, we have to establish the Chekhov’s gun on this podcast, because about 100 episodes ago we started talking about COVID. Actually, we’ll profit from-Ĭraig: You should sell it as an NFT. We’re going to put it in the Bonus Segment so when people come after me, they’re going to have to actually pay for the Bonus Segment to hear about it first. John: We’ll get into a little bit of that. John: In particular, these three really great articles that really shine spotlight on what is so dumb about NFTs. John: In our Bonus Segment for Premium Members, I want to talk about NFTs, because I always want to talk about NFTs. That’s absolutely true.Ĭraig: You’re going to be the best old lady. It feels like a gift you give not to a young person, but to an older person.Ĭraig: Young people don’t want wraps to stay warm. John: My gift for Megana this … As we’ve established on the show, I’m not a good gift-giver, but I did give Megana a blanket thing to keep her warm. You’ll be like, “Yeah, like all of us, my neck hurts.” I’m there.Ĭraig: Yeah, but when you get a little bit older, that will be totally justified. Megana: I spend most of my day complaining about neck pain, so I get it. You can identify however you want, but factually …Ĭraig: Do you? Because I don’t think you do yet. Hey Megana, did you know that, that you’re old now?Ĭraig: You can do that if you want. We think the young people are who Generation Z thinks of as the old people. You’re just keeping it up in the air a little bit longer.Ĭraig: Keeping it in the air and trying to just stay connected to the Millennials, even though the Millennials are now, I must say, old. John: I feel like that’s what you’re doing with the word parasocial. I don’t know, at graduation, did anyone launch a beach ball at your high school graduation, and the beach ball bounced over the top of it? I like that you’re working that parasocial, keeping it up. People respond and react because they are … I don’t know if I’m going to go so far as to say they’re all in a parasocial relationship with us, John, but they are in a parasocial conversation with us.

You’re right, the more we talk, the more follow-up and, I wouldn’t call it push-back, but people have interesting things to say. Caught in a loop of provoking and responding.Ĭraig: Good. Today on the show we’re looking at midpoints, that murky middle of the movie, where writers and audience both ask where are we, where are we going, and how soon will we get there.įirst we have a ton of follow-up from listeners about previous topics, and new questions that will no doubt prompt more follow-up. John: This is Episode 534 of Scriptnotes, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters. The original post for this episode can be found here.

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