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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0:00.0	This is an encore episode of Ask Me Another.
0:03.5	Hey Jonathan.
0:05.0	Hey, if you're on.
0:06.0	So today we're playing a game about ethics.
0:08.0	So let's warm up with a philosopher and movie mash-up speed round.
0:12.0	Okay.
0:13.0	First an existentialist philosopher teams up with a talking raccoon to fight aliens.
0:18.0	Oh, you're talking about soren Kierkegaardians of the galaxy.
0:21.0	Yes.
0:22.0	Try this, a Richard Linklater comedy about an ancient Chinese philosopher.
0:28.0	Is that dazed and confucius?
0:30.0	Yes.
0:31.0	Can you think of any more of these?
0:33.0	No, I am annual cant.
0:40.0	From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from the Bellhouse in beautiful Brooklyn, New York,
0:46.0	its NPR's hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia, ask me another.
0:51.0	I'm Jonathan Colton.
0:52.0	Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.
0:55.0	Thank you Jonathan.
0:58.0	We've got a great show for you.
1:01.0	Four brilliant contestants are backstage signing NDAs.
1:04.0	They're here to play our nerdy games, but only one will be our big winner.
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