Ch. 29: Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Actress | Dan Schofield, Writer

The Good Place: The Podcast

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🗓️ 5 October 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The Good Place writer Dan Schofield and actress Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Simone) shoot the shirt with host Marc Evan Jackson. They talk about Kirby’s audition and her background in improvisation, how the writers’ room named Simone, the return of Adam Scott as Trevor, Marc’s favorite romantic comedy scene in this episode and a shirt-ton more funny anecdotes and behind-the-scenes stories.

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0:00.0	Hi there! Welcome to the Good Place, the podcast!
0:07.2	I've really gotten into podcasts since we started this.
0:10.8	Did you know the number one podcast in the Good Place is Mozart and Jimmy Hendrix talking
0:16.8	about music?
0:18.2	And the number one podcast in the Bad Place is Joseph Stalin recapping the Bachelor.
0:25.0	Hope you enjoy this week's episode.
0:30.0	Welcome to the Good Place, the podcast.
0:36.3	I'm Mark Evan Jackson.
0:37.3	I play Sean.
0:38.8	Today we're talking about Chapter 29, Season 3, Episode 2, The Brainy Bunch, directed by
0:43.4	Jude Wang, written by Dan Skofield, including guest cast Nicholas Deberly, Antoinette Isu,
0:49.0	Michael Malley, Maya Rudolph, and Adam Scott.
0:52.5	Trevor infiltrates the study group and tries to get them each to quit.
0:56.1	Janet poses at a waitress to combat Trevor's efforts.
0:58.8	Trevor gets in Sheetie's head about how it's unprofessional to socialize with the subjects
1:02.2	of his study, so Sheetie tells Eleanor he can't do one on one studies with her.
1:06.2	Sheetie then stops Eleanor from bailing on the study, and Australia.
1:09.8	The judge catches Trevor and Michael cheating and hauls them back to the afterlife.
1:13.6	Michael and Janet escape back to Earth where her item cue starts printing, and the dormant
1:17.7	helps them out.
1:18.8	My guests today are writer of the episode Dan Skofield, and Kirby Howe Beptiste, who plays
1:22.8	Simone.
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