Mike Schur

I'll raise it one more time as an example.

Hacks exists because Jen, Paul, and Chia had this idea, and they worked on it for five years.

And we went out and we pitched it everywhere.

We pitched it to Netflix, and we pitched it to Hulu, and we pitched it to HBO.

It was a tough sell because it was a show about...

a 70-year-old woman who lives in Las Vegas and who is a stand-up comedian who takes on a 25-year-old apprentice to write jokes for a stand-up routine.

It was not the kind of idea that AI would suggest had a big chance for success, right?

It's on land.

The whole show takes place on land.

Yeah, not a single underwater legal drama.

Dry as hell.

Dry as hell.

And the woman, there was a woman named Susanna Makos who worked at HBO Max who just got it.

A group of humans used their human mouths to communicate an idea for a TV show.

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.