The Good Place Week: Mike Schur

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2018

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Episode 3 of The Good Place week shines a light on the man behind the curtain, Mike Schur. Mike (The Office, Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn 99) sits down with the Armchair Expert to discuss his philosophy on always "punching up", he breaks down white privilege, details the many facets of showrunning and he gives a sweet anecdote that sums up Regis Philbin's character. Dax and Mike discuss the virtues and pitfalls of Andrew Dice Clay, they talk about Mike's attraction to equality and they come to the conclusion that Ted, Mike and Kristen would be the perfect threesome to pickpocket. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody. Welcome to armchair expert. I'm joined by Monica Padman in Wobby Wob.
0:06.7	Your third installment in The Good Place Week is Mike Schur. He's an incredibly special show creator.
0:13.6	Everyone who's ever worked for him loves him,
0:15.7	which is a reputation that's almost impossible
0:18.0	to get as a showrunner.
0:19.2	Running a show is by far the hardest thing
0:21.7	in show business.
0:22.4	People give directors a lot of credit.
0:24.2	They need to give show runners all the credit.
0:26.0	Yeah.
0:27.0	My friend Rob Mecklehaney.
0:27.6	You're beast mode if you're a showrunner.
0:29.6	Yeah, you're doing everything.
0:31.5	Yeah, your favorite, Mindy Caling.
0:34.0	These people are beasts.
0:35.3	They are work machines.
0:37.1	So to execute that job, it's hard not to break a lot of eggs.
0:40.6	You would be a special person to be loved, he is universally loved. Now as I've reflected on this
0:46.0	episode because we had to slowly record these over the course of time knowing we were going to put them all
0:50.7	one week. So this was a while back.
0:52.8	And he and I get into some debates
0:54.4	that I've since had with other guests.
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