So hello again and welcome to another episode of Quick Question with Soren and Daniel the podcast where two best friends and comedy writers

Ask each other questions and give each other answers. I am one half of that podcast author of how to fight presidents and staff writer for last week

Tonight with John Oliver and the last unmarried wife Guy Daniel O'Brien joined as always by my co-host Mr

Soren booey Soren say hello. Hello everybody. I'm Soren booey. I am a writer for American dad technically a co-producer at this point

Which sounds pretty good, I think makes me sound like I invented the show or like had a hand in it

Not the case not the case at all. I'm just riding the co-tails of other people standing on the backs of giants

It is there's something. Oh, you're still talking about this is still your introduction. All right. Yeah, I'm now really having

Anything else? I'm a dad like a homeowner and some of that or the other boring bullshit. Sure

It's

Certainly like even though I'm technically in the biz which is short for business

I still whenever I'm watching a show I have

No idea what any of the credits mean and you see a show that's been on for a long time like the office

And it just seems like the amount of producers

Grow and grow and then it like because in the beginning there's like one or two and then suddenly it's like

co-producer John Kraszynsky

Co-executive producers Steve Carell co-producer Jennifer or co-producer Rain Wilson and just like people

Move into these positions so that like by the end of the credits. There's like 14 producers and co-producers on a show

Yeah, that's why people have asked very good questions before I've seen on Twitter where they're like what

Why are there so why don't like 12 VPs on a show? Why are there 12 executive producers? How is that possible?

And it's like well, it's just the way that the in most shows that's how a contract works in which you

You

Guaranteed an advance into certain levels and so like you start as a staff writer you go into a story editor

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