John and Craig weigh in on writing partner romances, voice-y scripts, character chemistry and end-of-draft treats in this week’s listener questions.

We also host a round of How Would This Be A Movie, featuring stories on treasure hunts, jailed activists, and a sports scam. We look at how these news articles would translate to film/television and most importantly, whether they should be adapted at all.

In our bonus segment the guys share hacks for remembering new people and make a pitch for name tags on set.

Links:

• Eric Webb’s Twitter and Memorial Fundraiser
• Mystery of the Buried Owl by Phil Hoad for the Guardian
• Rodney Stotts Used to Hustle Drugs in Southeast DC. Now He’s One of the Few Black Master Falconers in America by Rodney Stotts for the Washingtonian
• This lawyer should be world-famous for his battle with Chevron – but he’s in jail by Erin Brockovich for the Guardian
• It Really Wasn’t Cricket: The Strange Case of the Fake Indian Premier League by Sameer Yasir for the NY Times
• Werewords Game
• Tiramisu Recipe in the New York Times
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• Outro by Owen Danoff (send us yours!)
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