Mike Schur

You go to HBO.

And at some point when these companies all merge and they all became the same people and they are run by algorithms and they have massive, you know, institutional shareholders who demand a certain profit level...

Do they still allow places like HBO to make I May Destroy You and The Wire that nobody watched ever?

No one ever watched The Wire and The Wire is maybe the most important TV show of the last 50 years.

That's my fear as a writer and as a producer is that

The mergers and the consolidation ultimately just drives everything to the middle and you don't get the kinds of shows that make a lasting impression on us as a human species.

That we lose the far edges of creativity and everything just gets crunched into like chunks.

That's why they call it content, right?

It's not shows.

It's not movies.

It's just...

It's just slabs of a gelatinous substance.

It's like the stuff that they eat in Snowpiercer.

It's just like a gelatinous cube.

And they cut off a chunk of content and they give it to you and it's all just the same stuff.

And if we lose the ecosystem that allows both the Big Bang Theory and I May Destroy You to exist and be successful at the same moment in time, then we're losing Hollywood and we're losing storytelling.

And there's a Bronto burger in the back.

The Dershowitz one is hard to beat.

So for those of you who didn't see it, he would buy baseball hats that had the letter usually of the team or the logo and then embroider in that font a word using that letter.

Usually nonsensical, just the first thing that kind of popped into your head.