Mike Schur

It's really hard to avoid what this makes people who otherwise might be fundamentally uncomfortable, viscerally uncomfortable feeling, like actually free to feel.

Well, a huge part of fandom, and we talked to Professor Wan about this, is where does it come from, right?

How do you adopt it?

And

For so many people, it comes down from the generation before, fathers and mothers and grandparents and so forth.

It comes from communities.

It comes from places where there is a sense of you are part of something larger than yourself.

And there are plenty of stories about, if you could jump into those videos and ask those crying Liverpudlians, how many of you right now are thinking about your dad?

Or how many of you are thinking about your grandmother or whatever?

it would be 98.7% or something.

They're not thinking about the musical carousel.

I love Rodgers.

I'm a big Rodgers and Hammerstein guy.

There is a story from 2004 that I think about all the time from the Red Sox World Series where a guy was like, you know what I really want to do in the aftermath of the Red Sox finally winning is I want to talk to my dad who passed away.

And so his dad is buried in, I think, Mount Auburn Cemetery.

And it's 2.45 in the morning and there's church bells ringing everywhere and whatever, but it's 2.45 in the morning and he goes out walking and he's like, I don't know how I'm gonna get in.

I guess I'll have to climb the fence or something.

But he brings a bottle of champagne and a Red Sox hat.

He's gonna leave it at the grave.

And as he's walking towards the cemetery, he starts to see more and more people falling into the path.