Bonus Episode: Ted Danson on the Finale and the Future

The Good Place: The Podcast

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4.9 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The Good Place: The Podcast’s host Marc Evan Jackson sits down with Ted Danson (Michael) to shoot the shirt about his experience on the show and Ted’s life after The Good Place. Ted reveals how important the bow tie was to his character, why the first season was difficult for him and the special scene between him and his real-life wife, Mary Steenburgen. Marc and Ted also talk about saying goodbye to castmates during an emotional filming of the finale episode and Ted’s new comedy coming to NBC this fall. Be sure to subscribe for more behind-the-scenes stories, performance notes and a shirt-ton more!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Good Place, the podcast hosted by one of my very best friends, Mark Evan Jackson.
0:07.6	Also here is Neutral Janet. Correct, end of sentence.
0:13.1	Neutral Janet, what do we have coming up on today's episode?
0:16.6	Various people will say assorted words in a specific order regarding the TV program,
0:22.0	the Good Place, end of description. And whose today's guest?
0:26.9	Today's guest is a person who works on the TV program, the Good Place, in some capacity,
0:32.9	end of guest description. Thank you, Neutral Janet. Well said. On to the show.
0:38.4	Okay.
0:46.6	Welcome to the Good Place, the podcast. I'm Mark Evan Jackson. I played Sean. Today we're doing a
0:51.5	post finale look back, look ahead bonus episode. The truth is this conversation simply wouldn't be
0:56.6	complete without talking with today's guest, Edward Bridge Dance in the third, who played Michael
1:02.5	Real Man. Ted Dance and welcome. Everything is fine. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. Your voice is
1:09.9	very mellow. It's nice, right? Yes, it is. Really nice. Ted, how are you? What have you been up to?
1:17.2	Oh, I've been on the road with my wife Mary Steenberg, who was in Vancouver as you know,
1:25.4	because we hung out in Vancouver together while you were working. But Mary is doing a show called
1:30.0	Zoys Extraordinary Playlist, also on NBC. And as soon as we wrapped the Good Place, we both went up
1:38.7	and we were there for six months in Vancouver. I came and went, but I was basically there for a good
1:46.0	four and a half months. I was there for the rainy season. The rainy season, nonstop rainy season.
1:55.4	And then she, I was with you in New York when we watched the finale of The Good Place and then
2:02.5	did the South Show and that was wonderful. And then jumped on a plane in Meadow and Feent and
2:07.7	Pittsburgh, where she's doing the happiest season and movie there. So I've been on the road a lot.
2:14.8	And also shot the pilot to the mayor project that I'm doing with Robert Karlock and Tina Faye.
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