Mike Schur

And another human person heard that idea and understood why it was good and said, yes, I want to do this.

The more we get into this merger world and this AI world and this kind of collapsing universe where everything is predictive based on previous viewing habits, the less chance there is for a show like Hacks to ever exist again.

And that is sad.

The reason Hollywood is fun, the reason that those billionaires want to buy it and hang out and live in this world is because it's glamorous and exciting and fun.

And it's like the essence of what it means to be a human being is telling stories.

And the fewer places there are to tell stories and the less chance there are for those human stories to be told, again, for the millionth time, I'll say, the worse off everyone is.

To put a fine point on this, no matter who buys it, like HBO is in the business of making a small number, a relatively small number of very expensive TV shows and movies, very expensive, like, you know, things that are extremely high quality that take a long time to shoot and that are, when you watch them, you're just like, man, that look how good that looks.

The level of filmmaking of an HBO product is incredibly high.

And that is the kind of thing that no matter who buys them, you have to just say...

okay, keep doing that.

It is not the most tech-efficient, streamlined kind of production, but it is worth doing because it's artistic.

And the imprimatur of HBO means a lot to viewers and to the world of Hollywood.

And so right now, anyone can say, yes, we're going to let HBO keep doing what they've been doing.

After four years, when they've had a couple shows or expensive projects that didn't work out so well, will they still maintain that?

Will the tech guys who run those companies still say, you know what, I don't care that we're losing money or that we're not making as much money as we could.

Keep going, HBO, because you're great and we love you.

They've had that protection.

for years decades even because they win awards and because they that brand means something if they're bought by a tech company any tech company if if amazon bought them would they still maintain that i don't know and that's that's the scary thing like the landscape of tv used to have a lot of different

outlets that meant a lot of different things and different shows could go to different places for different reasons and they all had brands and you know you wanted to make a fun you know down the middle of the road multicam comedy you put it on cbs you want to make a super high-end

Like, you want to make I May Destroy You?