Ch. 9: Tiya Sircar, Actress | Jen Statsky, Writer

The Good Place: The Podcast

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4.9 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Actress Tiya Sircar (Real Eleanor/Vicky) and writer Jen Statsky shoot the shirt with host Marc Evan Jackson about how Tiya’s original audition was for “Tahani,” how the writers’ room is rarely about comedy writing, Mike Schur’s “good-for-something folder” and a fork-ton more laughs and behind-the-scenes stories.

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0:00.0	Hi there, I'm Janet. Welcome to the Good Place, the podcast.
0:07.5	Janet, what is a podcast?
0:09.5	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.
0:34.1	A quick programming note, starting next week, the Good Place, the podcast, in order to sync up with season three,
0:39.6	will begin releasing two podcast episodes per week.
0:42.8	You're welcome.
0:43.9	Today we're talking about chapter nine. Someone like me as a member,
0:47.2	directed by Dean Holland, includes guest cast Sunita Manny, Emily Arlick,
0:51.5	Jackie Tone, Zeke Nicholson, Adam Scott, and Tia Sircar.
0:55.6	In summary, Tahani helps Michael to be a tougher negotiator with the representatives of the bad place,
1:00.3	real Eleanor, Cheedy, fake Eleanor, and Trevor go on a double date, Jason and Janet Bond.
1:05.2	In flashbacks we see moments from Eleanor's life from high school to adulthood,
1:09.0	where she avoided being part of a group, and how that adversely affected her life.
1:12.8	My guest today, our writer of the episode, Jen Statsky, and Tia Sircar, who plays real Eleanor,
1:18.2	Jen and Tia, welcome. Everything is fine.
1:21.2	Hi. Hello.
1:23.1	Jen, we have to address it right out of the gate. You're on the podcast.
1:26.8	Okay, yeah.
1:27.6	So I've been getting a lot of feedback from all the other writers that whenever they go back to the
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