Ch. 2: Allison Jones & Ben Harris, Casting Directors | Alan Yang, Writer

The Good Place: The Podcast

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🗓️ 8 June 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The Good Place casting directors Allison Jones and Ben Harris join comedy writer Alan Yang and host Marc Evan Jackson to discuss Jameela’s audition performance for Tahani, writing for demons, anecdotes about acting and 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.
0:07.4	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.
0:30.0	Welcome to the Good Place, the podcast. I'm Mark Evan Jackson. I play Sean.
0:34.0	Today we're talking about episode 102 flying.
0:36.8	In the aftermath of the chaos, Eleanor tries to avoid suspicion. Michael is distraught and
0:40.8	believes he's made a mistake in his first neighborhood.
0:43.1	Tahani puts together a group of volunteers to clean up the neighborhood, but anyone who
0:46.5	participates will miss out on flying day.
0:49.2	Cheedy volunteers Eleanor, but Eleanor hides trash quickly in order to fly, which causes
0:53.2	a trash storm, and ultimately cheedy refusing to help her.
0:56.5	Eleanor feels guilty and cleans the entire neighborhood herself, so cheedy changes his
0:59.7	mind. The cliffhanger of this episode is Eleanor receiving a mysterious note under her
1:04.0	door, but she doesn't belong in the Good Place.
1:07.7	This episode features guest cast Alan Rachel, Amy Akuda, Susan Park, Jorge D.H. and Steve
1:12.7	Berg. And today my guests are casting directors Alison Jones, Ben Harris, and the writer of
1:18.3	the episode, Alan Yang. Alison Jones, Ben Harris, Alan Yang, welcome. Everything is fine.
1:23.9	Thanks for having us. I'll just want to say amazing hearing Mark just read that intro
1:29.6	last. That was the first take guys. No editing on that. Just amazing.
1:33.1	Elecution. I appreciate it. Does it bring back any memories? Do you now recall the episode?
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