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🗓️ 10 August 2018
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Chapter 13: The Good Place creator and executive producer Michael Schur takes a break from the writers' room to shoot the shirt with host and performer Marc Evan Jackson. Michael talks about identifying with TV characters he's written from The Office and Parks and Recreation, the differences in writing and producing artful media vs. big budget entertainment, his nods to Damon Lindelof's "Lost," the funny history behind his Twitter handle and a shirt-ton more.
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0:00.0 | Hi there, I'm Janet. Welcome to the Good Place, the podcast. |
0:07.4 | Janet, what is a podcast? |
0:09.4 | It's like the radio, but there's no music, and literally anyone can do one at any moment |
0:15.1 | about any subject. And there's a billion of them. |
0:18.9 | Sounds great. Hope you enjoy this week's episode. |
0:22.2 | Welcome to the Good Place, the podcast. I'm Mark Evan Jackson. I play Sean. |
0:33.7 | In today's episode, we discuss the season one finale, chapter 13, Michael's Gambit. |
0:37.8 | It includes guest cast, Tia Sircar, Bamba John Bamba, Luke Galdan, John Hartman, J. |
0:42.6 | Mawliumson, Braxton Beckham, Joe Mandy, Monet Michael, and Josh Seagal. |
0:47.5 | In this episode, while Eleanor, Tahane, Cheedy and Jason attempted to decide which two should |
0:51.3 | go to the bad place, Eleanor makes the startling realization that they are already in the bad |
0:55.5 | place. Before Michael is able to reboot their memories, Eleanor hides a note to herself |
0:59.5 | in Janet's mouth. Eleanor is rebooted with a new soulmate and a somewhat altered afterlife. |
1:04.9 | In flashbacks, we see the development of Michael's plan to torture the humans. Fans of the |
1:09.2 | Good Place will remember this episode as the one in which not a bunch happens, and then |
1:14.0 | we go home. My guest today is the director and writer of the episode, Mike Sure. Mike |
1:19.0 | Sure. Welcome. Everything is fine. Oh, thank you. That's great to hear. |
1:23.7 | Where do we begin? Well, you've already done podcasts on the first 12 episodes, right? |
1:27.8 | I feel like that's right. You have begun already. I just mean with this episode with you. |
1:33.6 | I want to talk about the writer's room. I want to talk about the process. I want to talk |
1:38.8 | about this episode. But one thing that came up very recently in our recording this is |
1:43.9 | that you didn't have a season two pickup when we were shooting this episode. In fact, |
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