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Getting the Details Wrong

Episode - 294

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April 4, 2017 Scriptnotes

Craig and John discuss chess, bad news, baseball, God, and screenwriting competitions.

We also share exciting news about the live show, now scheduled for May 1st in Hollywood.

Links:

* The Beverly Hills Screenplay Contest
* [Adam Sternbergh’s Tweet](https://twitter.com/sternbergh/status/841075763675820032)
* [Good Times – DAMN DAAAMN DAAAAAAMN](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKUwcCp7LPE)
* [Jonathan Coulton – All This Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvVNxqosZ7s)
* [Portal – ‘Still Alive’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI)
* [Every Noise At Once](http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html)
* [John August](https://twitter.com/johnaugust) on Twitter
* [Craig Mazin](https://twitter.com/clmazin) on Twitter
* [John on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/johnaugust/?hl=en)
* [Find past episodes](http://scriptnotes.net/)
* [Outro](http://johnaugust.com/2013/scriptnotes-the-outros) by Ben Singer ([send us yours!](http://johnaugust.com/2014/outros-needed))

Email us at ask@johnaugust.com

You can download the episode [here](http://traffic.libsyn.com/scriptnotes/scriptnotes_ep_294.mp3).

**UPDATE 3-28-17:** The transcript of this episode can be found [here](http://johnaugust.com/2017/scriptnotes-ep-294-getting-the-details-wrong-transcript).

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