Mike Schur

Like these places have playbooks that they run and they have things that work for them on their service or platform.

And everything gets kind of squished to the middle.

There is something about

these folks that if you want to be sort of, I don't know, benefit of the dowdy or glass half fully or something like David Zaslav, who took over this iconic company, like he like bought Jack Warner's old desk.

And he sat and he moved that into his office.

And he met with folks.

Joe and I both work on Hacks.

Joe's been writing for Hacks from the beginning.

It's a show I produce.

It's really run by our friends, Jen, Paul, and Lucia.

And he asked to meet with them early on.

And he was incredibly complimentary about the show and talked about how much he loved the show and how great he thought it was.

And said his favorite character was Ray, the hotel clerk, which I... Joe's character, yeah.

Who worked at the hotel.

There is an aspect of this where...

this class of person, they do genuinely, I think at some level, love Hollywood.

They love it.

It's like... Because Hollywood's like fun and it's glamorous and it's exciting and there's... And making movies is fun and TV shows and actors and like parties on rooftop bars in Hollywood.

Like this... It is... There isn't... They're not...

they don't think of it necessarily in the coldest possible terms.