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But I think I was most interested in like, I hate the word, but diversity.
Its not ethnic diversity; its like intellectual diversity.
And that proved to be a pretty good way to go about it.
Like the guy whos the sort of main philosophical adviser of the show is a professor from Clemson.
We read the book, and then I called him and he ended up being our main adviser guy.
and I was like, Oh my God, yeah.
We read Wikipedia entries.
I dont want people to imagine that this is an intensive, graduate-level course.
We mostly listen to podcasts.
We find little things.
Its really not this super over-the-top thing.
None of us is Chidi.
Its like, a lot of shows youre just making dumb poop jokes thats cool too.
Mike was trying to explain time, and I didnt get it for a full afternoon.
And Josh just was like, What about Jeremy Bearimy?
Thats how you explain the time.
What happened to Chidis brain there happened to my brain.
And she was totally right.
And then, Josh giggled out loud.
He actually giggled at his own thought, which is very rare.
And he was like, What if Michael just says that the timeline is just Jeremy Bearimy.
It saved us so much time.
Its basically a middle finger, right?
Its like, You have a problem with the way that you think time works?
I dont know what to tell you.
Josh Siegal: This is the way Id wanna learn about that.
I believe what I first said was, Jeremy Jeremy.
And everyone got it right away.
Theres gotta be aBin there.
Everyone gets to hang out with an idea.
It makes me feel really lucky.
And then, Joes a very talented artist, and we had him do it.
But, like, there was a really serious session where Joe Mande had a Sharpie.
And it was all these giant poster boards, and he was doing it over and over.
He did it like 500 times.
The one you see is actually his handwriting, or his work, or whatever youd call it.
We knew the whole first season before we even started writing it.
We were able to talk about season two while we were writing season one.
Go on …MS: No.
Because if someone has a better idea, we always want to follow that better idea.
Its a dicey proposition for a show like this.
And thatll begin that process.
Is there a next year?MS: Oh, I dont know.
I mean, I assume.
If they cancel us now, Id be really pissed.
Yeah, I guess they havent picked us up yet.
