Welcome back to The Good Place the Podcast. This is part two of our wonderfully lengthy

discussion with Drew Goddard and Mike Shore about the series Forking Finale of NBC's The

Good Place. Let's listen to a clip.

This is what's on the menu. Literally anything you could possibly imagine. What do you think?

Working out the terms of moral justification is an unending task. That's what I was thinking

about. That sentence. You want to eat that sentence for dinner? Can we eat words? Because

I asked Janet right? No, no. It's the last line of Scanlan's book. Remember? No,

book is about how we should try to find rules other people can't reasonably reject and

then he ends it by saying the search for how to find those rules will go on forever.

I proposed a rule. The cheats shouldn't be allowed to leave because it would make Eleanor

sad and I could do this forever. Zip you around the universe showing you cool stuff and

I'd still never find the justification for getting you to stay because it's a selfish

rule. I owe it to you to let you go. So did you skip ahead to the last line of the Scanlan

book? There is actually a little story involved with this. So Will Harper and I were asked to

do an event in Boston. WVR had a has this event space and there was a philosophy professor

I think Colby College who got in touch with us and said we do these little presentations

for the public. Would you want to come and talk about philosophy in the show? And my family

lives in Boston. So I said sure and I asked Will and he was like, yeah, that sounds fun.

So he and I went there and this philosophy professor was a disciple of Tim Scanlan. So

she said as an added bonus, I'll try to get Tim to come to the show. So I said, well,

that sounds exciting. So I'm a book collector. I collect first editions and I was like, oh,

I'm going to buy a first edition copy of what we owe to each other and I'm going to get

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