00:04Every one of the first three episodes is basically a different kind of show because it changes
00:08premises like three times in the first three episodes. That's a spoiler kind of but not really
00:12and then episode six has none of the main characters in it as well so it's really like
00:17out of the eight episodes it's you just can't get a bearing on the show. That's one of the
00:20things I love the most about it which is that Amazon gave us a chance to do something that
00:25is super unpredictable and in a world where I think a lot of times when when they give you notes
00:31they want the audience to know what the show is in the first five minutes or even the first minute
00:36you know it's like someone comes up it's like you know your your father died now we've got to move
00:40in together and get along you know it's something like that right it's like that's what they want
00:44at the beginning of everything I mean we should this is the writer's room for that show. Who do you
00:49like for the father?
00:49I don't pull bridges. You know we mind a lot of my co-creator Matt Hubbard's life because he's been
00:57married for years and years and I'm a single person so I'm unmarried anyway and and there's an argument
01:03between Maya Rudolph's character and Fred Armisen's character where for essentially 20 years he's been
01:09loading the dishwasher in a way that or she's been loading the dishwasher in a way that she didn't want
01:14to and and and basically it was just tines up your forks being tines up and it was like yeah
01:19he's
01:19like that's a real argument that me and my wife had and it got ugly on the last show I
01:30did on
01:31Mr. Nunn we did an episode where he is dating two women at the same time 65 year old Asian
01:37man in
01:37Southern California which is like a pretty rare story in television and we had lunch we were like
01:42eating some seafood or something and he was like so I watched the second season and I noticed you had
01:47an episode where I'm dating two women at the same time he's like I don't do that I was like
01:50yeah
01:51it's it's fictionalized it's a comedy but he I don't know you know I don't want to imply that he
01:56did do it
01:56but I was like you're balling out man
01:59okay what is your most unusual pre-writing ritual
02:03I always walk around the writer's room and you know our writer's room for forever was really small
02:08and so I'm sure it was so annoying but I'm like I'm walking behind it's like
02:11I get to do it get on the boss my friend said it's like untouchables with Al Capone when he's
02:16walking around he's like I'm sure you're gonna hit me with a baseball bat because I'm just pacing
02:19around in a circle yeah but on Parks and Rec you hurt your friend that was a very ironic sort
02:24of yeah
02:24punishment but yeah we're still scooting around yeah but when I you know when I when I was writing
02:28this movie I did the same thing but I did it in New York City so I no one could
02:31stop me so I would
02:32walk from my apartment on like Houston to like the Met which is like 80 blocks away and I'm just
02:37getting away from your computer and getting away from your phone I used to work on South Park and
02:41Trey Parker would do that he never stopped moving and he would like go off into another room maybe
02:45that's where we got it because I worked there briefly too I saw him do the same thing yeah he
02:48would just walk in circles
02:55the best shows the best films in history have a very singular clear unique usually unheard of point
03:03of view like a new point of view and whether that's comedic dramatic whatever but the thing that drives me
03:08crazy when watching something is when it feels like it's written by committee when it feels like
03:12it's cobbled together when it feels like every line was written by a writer if that makes sense you
03:18know what I mean it just it's like no one's talking sometimes feel that where you go I do a
03:22joke it's
03:22so they're like oh like hey my joke got in yeah exactly you can kind of feel it on a
03:29show or you
03:30could feel that it's like oh that was done at three in the morning I did an interview once and
03:37they
03:37were like yeah your first show best or none you had all you talked about race a lot and then
03:40in
03:41forever it's like why don't you talk about race more it's like every show I have to do has to
03:44be about
03:44race I mean that's insane it's because I'm Asian like my show has to be about being Asian it's like
03:49and by the way the show stars Maya who's by race and Fred who's a million different races and
03:55just their existence by that very fact is like okay that's the fact that they're just playing
03:59those they're playing people and no one is talking about it yes and by the way there's an episode episode
04:04six which is about a black man and Asian woman falling in love over the course of 30 years and
04:08they do talk about race I was like is that not enough the whole show has to be like it
04:12really was
04:13it really opened my eyes to the expectations of wow you really think everything you ever work on
04:18has to be about that it really doesn't you know it's I'm happy to make more stuff I'm making
04:22a movie that has an all-Asian cast but not everything I do is going to be there
