The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Ted Danson & Michael Schur On "A Man On The Inside"
Mon, 25 Nov 2024
We know it's a football Monday, but Jeremy pointed out a Shohei Ohtani stat to Dan about his 3rd unanimous MVP Award that must be discussed. Is Chris Cote's idea for an Ohtani podcast with Nikola Jokic the best or worst idea ever? Then, Billy claims Jason Kelce may have gotten one over on his brother Travis, and the crew bullies Dan into joining the show's Listener League. Plus, friend of the show Mike Schur and his muse Ted Danson join Dan, Stu, and the Shipping Container to discuss their new show "A Man On The Inside." Schur and Danson discuss the origins of the show, their partnership in making television, how to measure success in the modern age, what they both do when shows are released, and how they pick their projects, but don't worry, we saved time for Schur to get infuriated over the Miami Heat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What impressive stat about Shohei Ohtani is discussed?
So, hey, teammate, toss it to me, and I will bat the ball all the way down the court.
That's crazy.
And I will almost make it. It's one of the crazy—he missed it. It was an air ball, but it's still one of the more impressive things I've ever seen in sports. It would be the best basketball play ever.
It's pretty good.
It's crazy. Imagine if he made that.
Wow. I'm surprised he didn't. I've got to be honest with you. Given that guy's level of mastery over everything he's doing.
Those two guys should start a podcast. Otani and Jokic. Just two guys that we never hear from, but are actually the best athletes ever. Stugatz, you pitched the Travis Kelsey pod before people did. Get on that one. Okay. Well, they were brothers. That was obvious. I don't even think Stugatz had Jason involved in the Travis podcast.
One of these people needs an interpreter.
It was me.
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Chapter 2: How do Shohei Ohtani and Babe Ruth compare?
Didn't you have a coach who taught you about baseball when you were on Cheers?
No. Sorry, but that great photo, that great photo of Carl Yastrzemski, it was a doubleheader against the Angels. It was in between, and they had lost the first game. And they made him pose with these two actors that no one had heard of because Cheers wasn't on the air. That's funny. And he was so pissed off. I've never seen anyone angst in him.
That's fantastic.
Yes, didn't want those people, these dumbass actors on his baseball field. No. Getting in the way of everything. Mike, this is for both of you, but first for you, Mike, how do you pick your projects? How do you pick what you're going to invest two years of obsessive compulsive thinking over?
I don't know. I mean, this was a situation where my longtime producing partner, Morgan Sackett, sent me an email and said, have you seen that documentary, The Mole Agent? We should remake that as a series and write it for TED. And it was just sort of instantly a good idea.
We had been working on Field of Dreams for a long time, and it was becoming clear that that was not going to actually get made. And we were sort of floating a little bit. And then he had a really good idea. And I thought, yeah, that's right. And I don't know why I thought that or how I felt so strongly about it.
But I think at some level, it's just what hits you on a gut level or what makes you feel like, oh, yeah, yeah, I can see that. And, you know, but they're all different. The Good Place was just a series of events. thoughts that have been swirling around in my head for years that it sort of coalesced into an idea.
And, you know, Brooklyn Nine-Nine came from me and my friend Dan just like actively working on what would make a good show. So it's not one thing or one place. It's just you you get a feeling you have a lot of ideas and then one of them starts to kind of glow a little bit or like feel more real than the other ones. And then you pursue that and you see if there's a show in it.
It's not there's no magic formula. I don't think it's just what interests you about the world at that moment.
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