John and Craig implore screenwriters to think twice before using the phrase "begs the question.” We know it’s a losing battle, but if we learned anything from 300, sometimes those are still worth having.

We then dive into one of our favorite features, How Would This Be a Movie, looking at listener-suggested stories about anthrax, amnesia and atomic veterans.

Links:

• Arlo Finch on TUMBLR
• Duly Noted: Let’s Talk about Episode 259
• Craig’s One Cool PI Thing
• Latif Ullah’s Cut of Overboard
• Begging the Question
• Begging the Question Fallacy
• Trip Gabriel
• Oliver Sacks
• The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia on Amazon
• Tom Hallman, Jr.
• Clyde Haberman
• 2001 Anthrax Attacks
• Bruce Edward Ivins
• macOS Sierra
• Phased by Joe Capra
• John August on Twitter
• Craig Mazin on Twitter
• Outro by Rajesh Naroth (send us yours!)

You can download the episode here.

UPDATE 8–1–16: The transcript of this episode can be found here.