William Jackson Harper: Getting To The Good Place

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🗓️ 3 September 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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William Jackson Harper shares where he was physically and emotionally when cast on The Good Place. Plus, ethics columnist Kwame Anthony Appiah. This episode originally aired on March 16, 2018.

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0:12.1	Learn more at RWJF.org.
0:16.2	This is an encore episode of Ask Me Another.
0:19.9	Hey, Jonathan.
0:20.7	Hey, Afira.
0:21.2	So today we're playing a game about ethics.
0:23.4	So let's warm up with a philosopher and movie mashup speed round.
0:27.6	Okay.
0:28.2	First, an existentialist philosopher teams up with a talking raccoon to fight aliens.
0:33.6	Ah, you're talking about Sorin Kierka Guardians of the Galaxy.
0:36.8	Yes.
0:38.4	Try this, a Richard Linklater comedy
0:41.1	about an ancient Chinese philosopher.
0:43.9	Is that dazed and Confucius?
0:46.2	Yes.
0:47.5	Can you think of any more of these?
0:49.7	No, I am annual can't.
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1:06.1	Ask me another.
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