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Dec 2020
58m 43s

Mike Schur: Everybody Wins

Stitcher & Team Coco, Rob Lowe
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In which Rob and writer/producer Mike Schur discuss quarantine cuts, virtual writers’ rooms, the vital importance of silliness, the SNL sketches that never were, and of course Parks & Recreation. Plus: we learn Mike’s response when told Chris Pratt had been offered the “racoon movie.”

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