Ch. 16: Jameela Jamil, Actress | Megan Amram, Writer

The Good Place: The Podcast

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4.9 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Actress Jameela Jamil and comedy writer Megan Amram shoot the shirt with host Marc Evan Jackson about Jameela’s first performance acting drunk, how her posh accent slips when she argues, Megan’s hilarious obsession (or maybe mental health issue) with puns, the decline of Jameela’s Instagram handle and a shirt-ton of funny behind-the-scenes stories about The Good Place.

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0:00.0	Hi there! Welcome to the Good Place, the podcast.
0:06.7	Janet, what's a podcast?
0:08.9	A podcast is a thing humans invented to procrastinate from doing important things,
0:13.6	like actual work or spending time with their families.
0:16.9	Meet! Enjoy this week's episode.
0:19.9	Welcome to the Good Place, the podcast. I'm Mark Evan Jackson.
0:29.8	I play Sean. Today we're talking about Chapter 16, Season 2 Episode 2, Dance Dance Resolution.
0:36.2	Directed by Drew Goddard, including guest cast, Tia Sircar, Luke Golden, Mary Bethman
0:40.8	Row, Bomba John Bomba, Josh Siegel, Aisha Kabia, Jess Roland, and Joe Mande.
0:46.2	Unbeknownst to his boss, Sean, Michael keeps rebooting the humans over and over. He's frustrated
0:50.6	that Eleanor keeps guessing it's the bad place and resets them 800 times. Even Jason
0:55.5	solves the ruse at one point. On the 800 second reboot, the humans finally realize it's
1:00.2	the bad place and travel to Mindy St. Clairs. Mindy reveals that they've been rebooted and
1:04.2	visited her many times, including forgotten details, such as revenge plans on Michael,
1:09.1	and a trist between Chidi and Eleanor. Back at the neighborhood, Vicki leads the demons
1:12.8	in a strike, resulting in Michael eventually giving up and asking the humans to be on his
1:17.0	team in order to thwart Sean and Vicki. Our guests today are the writer of the episode,
1:21.3	Megan Amram and Jamila Jamil, who plays Tahani. Megan and Jamila, welcome. Everything is great.
1:27.4	Woo! Hello. Why did that change for season two? Well, we start, I mean, this is a good
1:35.5	segue into the episode, but we started playing with like very small changes that Michael was making
1:43.1	for the world that the humans were going to be in. I personally think it's very funny that he
1:49.7	thought that everything is fine, changing to everything is great, would have some sort of impact
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