Ch. 1: Michael Schur

The Good Place: The Podcast

NBC Entertainment Podcast Network

Michael Schur, Tv Production, Behind The Scenes, Philosophy, Parks And Rec, Tv & Film, Nbc, Comedy Writing, Entertainment Comedy, Kristen Bell, Tv, Manny Jacinto, Brooklyn Nine-nine, Mike Schur, William Jackson Harper, The Good Place, Marc Evan Jackson, Ted Danson, Jameela Jamil, Good Place, D'arcy Carden, Writing, Good Place Podcast, Acting, Stories, Entertainment, After Shows, Comedy, Tv Writing

4.9 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Host Marc Evan Jackson shoots the shirt with storytelling mastermind, show creator and architect of The Good Place (the show, not heaven) Michael Schur. They discuss the backstory of Mike getting carte blanche to make the TV show he’s always wanted, the inner workings of Janet, dark corners of fringe ethics, plot development, behind-the-scenes anecdotes about writing and a fork-ton more.

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0:00.0	Hi there, I'm Janet. Welcome to the Good Place, the podcast.
0:07.0	Janet, what is a podcast?
0:09.0	It's like the radio, but there's no music, and literally anyone can do one at any moment
0:15.0	about any subject. And there's a billion of them.
0:18.0	Sounds great. Hope you enjoy this week's episode.
0:23.0	Hello everyone. Welcome to the Good Place, the podcast. I'm Mark Evan Jackson. I play Sean.
0:34.0	First things first, there will be spoilers from the first two seasons of the Good Place on NBC.
0:39.0	So if you haven't seen seasons one and two, stop listening immediately. Do not read a single word about the show.
0:44.0	And go back and watch those episodes on the NBC app, Amazon, iTunes, and Google Play.
0:50.0	Our guest is the creator of the Good Place. Mike Shore. Mike Shore. Welcome.
0:54.0	Oh, thank you. Everything is fine.
0:57.0	If only that were true. When you set out to create the most by the numbers, cookie cutter, rehashed element of American network television.
1:07.0	Where did you begin?
1:10.0	I don't know. I don't know where there should answer that. Is the bit that you're attending it to be or for real?
1:16.0	But okay, I was just like, look, man, let's just go right down the middle.
1:20.0	Let's just let's just let nothing too fancy. Nothing too crazy. Let's just knock 100 of these suckers out and go home.
1:27.0	13 at a time.
1:29.0	Only 13 at a time.
1:31.0	The I'm making reverence to a bit of conversation that Mike and I have shared many times on set, which is when I began as Sean,
1:40.0	we would find ourselves between takes going like I had just received the information of what the show was.
1:46.0	Right. Because it hadn't aired yet and it was all very secret.
1:49.0	And then of course, at my initial information of the show also came the twist that happens in episode 113.
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