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Bindles and Gold Pans

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April 11, 2023 HWTBAM, Scriptnotes, Transcribed

John and Craig look at another set of incredible news stories and ask, How Would This Be a Movie? Stories include an AI love service, an inventor with good intentions who doomed our planet, a fake Aretha Franklin, and a multi-million dollar nut heist.

We also follow up on heroic names and answer listener questions about researching your story.

In our bonus segment for premium members, John and Craig lie awake and wonder — what happens to our work after we die?

Links:

* [The Man of Your Dreams](https://www.thecut.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-replika-boyfriend.html) by Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz for The Cut
* [The Brilliant Inventor Who Made Two of History’s Biggest Mistakes](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/15/magazine/cfcs-inventor.html) by Steven Johnson for The New York Times Magazine
* [Pennsylvania Woman Who Disappeared in 1992 Is Found Alive in Puerto Rico](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/04/us/pennsylvania-woman-found-puerto-rico.html?smid=em-share) by Eduardo Medina for the New York Times
* [The Counterfeit Queen of Soul](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/counterfeit-queen-soul-180969340/) by Jeff Maysh for Smithsonian
* [The Curious Case of the Disappearing Nuts](https://www.outsideonline.com/food/nut-job/) by Peter Vigneron for Outside
* [A History Professor Takes On Hollywood](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/style/natalia-petrzela-fitness.html) by Katherine Rosman for the New York Times
* [This Isn’t Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew](https://www.workman.com/products/this-isnt-going-to-end-well/hardback) by Daniel Wallace
* [Posthumously](https://slate.com/culture/2023/04/posthumous-writing-randall-kenan-novel-survivors.html) by Daniel Wallace
* [The Last of Us: Soundtrack From the Series](https://milanrecords.com/release/the-last-of-us/) by David Fleming & Gustavo Santaolalla
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**UPDATE 5-11-23:** The transcript for this episode can be found [here](https://johnaugust.com/2023/scriptnotes-episode-594-bindles-and-gold-pans-transcript).

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