Mike Schur
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Podcast Appearances
They like what they like.
And at that time, in 2004 in the U.S., what they liked was Friends and Will and Grace and Seinfeld and everything else.
No.
So the difference, I would say, is that you can retrain people to some extent
if you just are really good and people start to slowly learn, you know, Steve Carell was in the 40 year old Virgin between season one and two.
So people were like, oh, that guy, oh, that guy's funny.
Now their brains have been rewired and they're like, oh, that's a funny person.
I will now watch this show.
Things like that can happen.
Sports is just sports.
Baseball is baseball.
Basketball is basketball.
The weirdest sport to me during the pandemic with no crowds was baseball.
I agree.
It was unholy.
It was horrifying.
And partly I think that's because...
A home run being hit, like a deep fly ball, outfielder going back, gets to the wall, dink, dunk, dink, dunk, like just the ball just rattling around the metallic outfield bleachers was just so disorienting and weird.
But it was so weird in the NBA that in the bubble they had to put like giant monitors in with giant heads.
I was a virtual fan for a heat game.