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A (0:02)
So here's some of the sort of chapters, or I don't know if we can call these chapters, but just sort of like the way the book is.
B (0:09)
Organized is we can't be calling these chapters. Right.
A (0:13)
The first half of the book is using character conflicts. So it's a bunch of scenarios with different types of conflicts. So there's teen parent conflicts. We have. Student. We have. And I'm just saying this now, I've actually never cracked this book open, which is awesome fun.
B (0:30)
When you see teen parent conflicts, is that teen and parent in conflict, or is that conflicts that teen parents might find themselves in?
A (0:37)
God, I hope it's both. There's also this, and this is very good student teacher conflicts, which maybe this just arose from something he did in class and the students bucked against.
C (0:49)
There is a teacher insisting students do improv exercises.
B (0:54)
Conflict number one, why are we doing this? Conflict number two, do you really have a wife? I don't see a ring. Don't most people have a wife, have a ring?
A (1:03)
Didn't you run off with your brother? We have salesman, customer conflicts, et cetera. So a bunch of different sort of conflicts. And then as we go on, we have contrasts. We have using lines of dialogue to start the scene, using body language to start the scene, using the environment to start a scene. So maybe for now, this might be something we revisit. Maybe we start with some. Just some conflicts.
B (1:25)
Conflicts are great. So this was billed as like, 1000. Is that what he said? It's like 1000 scene starters.
A (1:32)
1000 is such a terrible number. Why not go for a collection of 900?
B (1:36)
900. Way more manageable. You can cut out. Basically. It's like if you promise 1,000 and you get to 900, you say, like, look, we all know the last hundred weren't going to be fucking good.
A (1:46)
My guess is he wrote the first 900, sat around for this, sat on his IBM computer for three years, and then you just said, I can't think of another hundred.
B (1:56)
This is a lesson to any parent out there. Definitely, definitely. Or anyone who's giving, like, a children's book as a gift. Always, always, always read the book before you give it as a gift or before you purchase it. Because kids are going to read that book 1100 times. So you want to make sure it's not a piece of shit. Otherwise you have to do what I have to do, where someone gives you, like, a bad book and you go, oh, yeah, we ran out of that book. And it's just in one of the little library Somewhere in my neighborhood because I had to get rid of it. But I bought a book for my kid and it was like, 100 animals. And I was like, oh, great. Pictures of animals. The names of the animals. They're going to learn. A hundred animals. This is going to be awesome. They're going to love this book. They did love the book, but Dada did not love the book because the fuckers behind the hundred animals book cheated. Because it's all broken into sections of, like, where on the planet the animals might exist. And like, penguins is in there three times. And I'm like, look, I know that penguins exist in other places, but you as the person who made the fucking book, you gotta be like, guys, we've already used penguins twice. It's only 100 animals. We get three of the hundred animals. Can't just be regular penguin. Like, we gotta. We gotta do something different. Frogs in there, like six times. Grow up. Hundred animals grow the fuck up. So I hope Philip, Mr. Philip Bernardi has more integrity than the 100 animals people. It does not reuse goddamn suggestions.