What’s Good: Fans and a Few Surprises, Part 1

The Good Place: The Podcast

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🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Host Marc Evan Jackson shoots the shirt with superfans of The Good Place from all over the world as they talk about the goodness they see around them in a special fan edition of “What’s Good.” We also get some surprise pop-ins from D’Arcy Carden and Ted Danson as they delight fans and give us some updates on their lives in quarantine. A very special thanks to fans Fergie L. Philippe, Inga Meckel, Sarah Baar, Lillie-Beth Brinkman and family, Sergio Ribero, Muna Abadel, Shawn Shults, Lara Hauser and all the fans who submitted an email.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Good Place, the podcast. I'm Mark Evan Jackson. I played Sean. Today we bring you part
0:08.6	one of three of our special installments. What's good? These conversations were recorded in the first
0:14.0	two weeks of April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine via video conference with fans of
0:21.2	the good place from all over the country and the planet. It is no surprise that they did, but I'm so
0:26.9	thankful that NBC and the entire Good Place family responded so quickly and favorably to my
0:32.2	pitch that we do this, that we meet, that we see one another, that we commiserate and laugh and
0:39.9	connect and worry and hope. From all of us here at the podcast team, Grant Rudder, Tray Booty,
0:47.2	Lizzie Pace and Matt Kessada, it is our hope that if even for a moment these conversations offer you,
0:55.2	even the faintest climber of certainty that good exists in the world. If I had any doubts about it
1:02.3	prior, they've been erased by these wonderful connections. In the first 24 hours after our video
1:08.2	requests for submissions, we received 575 emails from all over the globe. By the time we started
1:14.6	cataloging them the next day, it was nearly 800. At the time of this recording on April 8th,
1:20.1	submissions continue to arrive. I read about 250. Someone read every one. His name is Grant Rudder.
1:31.6	Joining me now is the producer of the Good Place, the podcast, Grant Rudder. Grant, man, why?
1:39.4	Hi Mark. Why? Because it's the right thing to do. How many times have we submitted to things
1:45.9	that never heard? I wanted to give all the listeners who are beyond loyal to the show and the
1:52.6	podcast a fair shot. Everyone's trying to find some way to help people, which is a great thing.
1:59.3	Of course, I thought, what can I do for people? What I can do is produce a podcast and I can give
2:04.5	people an escape. That's really what my skill set lends me to do and I'm more than happy to do it.
2:10.8	So yeah, that was my motivation. It was so thoughtful and meaningful that you spent that time to
2:17.1	read every single one. It would be lovely if we could respond to everyone and let them know that
2:22.0	they've been heard. And I hope that this accomplishes that for the listeners to the podcast,
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