Ch. 45: Ben Koldyke, "Brent" | Lizzy Pace, Writer | Steve Day, Director

The Good Place: The Podcast

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4.9 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The Good Place: The Podcast’s host Marc Evan Jackson sits down with Ben Koldyke (Brent), writer Lizzy Pace and director Steve Day to shoot the shirt about Season 4, Episode 6, “A Chip Driver Mystery.” Ben talks about auditioning for Allison Jones, his time as a quarterback at Dartmouth College and how he got into acting at a late age. Lizzy reveals how Mike Schur surprised her by giving her an episode to write, the inspiration for “Chip Driver” and how the character is an homage to Michael Scarn from The Office. Steve describes the difference between directing and assistant directing on The Good Place and his excitement when Mike Schur told him he’ll be directing a Season 4 episode. Be sure to subscribe for more behind-the-scenes stories, performance notes and shirt-ton more!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Good Place, the podcast hosted by one of my very best friends, Mark Evan
0:10.2	Jackson.
0:11.2	Also here is Neutral Janet.
0:14.3	Correct.
0:15.3	End of sentence.
0:16.3	Neutral Janet, what do we have coming up on today's episode?
0:19.9	Various people will say assorted words in a specific order regarding the TV program,
0:25.2	The Good Place.
0:26.4	End of description.
0:27.4	Okay.
0:28.4	And who's today's guest?
0:29.4	Today's guest is a person who works on the TV program, The Good Place, in some capacity.
0:35.5	End of guest description.
0:36.5	Oh, sounds exciting.
0:38.8	Thank you, Neutral Janet, onto the show.
0:48.5	Welcome to The Good Place, the podcast.
0:49.5	I'm Mark Evan Jackson.
0:50.5	I play Sean.
0:52.5	Today we'll discuss Chapter 45, Season 4, Episode 6, a Chip Driver mystery, written by Lizzie
0:57.8	Pace, directed by Steve Day, including guest cast Ben Koldike, Carrihal Baptiste, and
1:02.8	Brandon Scott Jones.
1:04.9	Michael visits Bad Janet and Janet's Void and tells her a story about how everything in
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