This is the Bad Place
Bi-weekly recaps of NBC's The Good Place TV show. We talk ethics, religious trauma and more. This is a project of The Prophetic Imagination Station podcast.
Episodes
March 21, 2024 • 56 mins
DL & Krispin discuss the season finale of The Good Place Season 1, titled "Michael's Gambit." We talk about recognizing rotten systems (that claim to be good) and also what's next for the podcast!
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February 15, 2024 • 48 mins
DL and Krispin talk about S1 E12 titled “Mindy St. Claire” We ask whether you actually have any ethical choices in a capitalistic system and other questions that inspire hopelessness. Also, is the US the medium place?
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February 1, 2024 • 70 mins
D.L interviews Kelley Nikondeha, author of First Advent in Palestine about Christian zionism, and how Palestinians view the year 1948 (often called "The Nakba" or "Catasrophe"). Kelley is the author of The First Advent in Palestine: Reversals, Resistance, and the Ongoing Complexities of Hope. You can follow her on Instagram here.
Here is a great 4-page sheet outlining what happened in 1948. While John Wayne encouraged Bodie Theone ...
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January 18, 2024 • 61 mins
The book we are discussing is The Gates of Zion by Brock and Bodie Theone.
You can follow Josh’s work over on his substack called New Means. He mostly covers issues of labor but most recently has been writing from a Jewish perspective on the dangers of zionism.
“Zionism was the air we breathed. To me it seemed so normal, it was not something we investigated consciously.”
The single largest zionist organization in the US Christi...
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January 4, 2024 • 52 mins
DL and Krispin talk about Christian Zionism, The Left Behind Series, Dispensationalism and more!
Here's some resources we reference in this episode:
Left Behind: From Root to Ripened Fruit by Hank Hanegraaff (the Bible Answer Man).
John Darby's "End Times" by Chuck Hamilton
Asking, What Would Jesus Read? by Erin Smith
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December 14, 2023 • 65 mins
DL and Krispin talk about S1 E10 titled “What's My Motivation?” We talk a lot about religious trauma, being trained to discount your own experience, and whether people who believe in soul mates tend to be demisexual. Also, who won the bet from the end of last episode?
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November 30, 2023 • 47 mins
DL and Krispin talk about S1 E10 titled “Chidi’s Choice.” We talk about our romantic lives as teenagers and young adults. We also talk more about ethical OCD, and how impactful (and un-detected) it can be.
Krispin mentions Task Master
DL mentions Good Christian Fun
You can learn about ethical soups here.
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November 9, 2023 • 47 mins
DL and Krispin talk about S1 E9 titled “...Some Like Me as a Member.” We talk ethical OCD, feeling of shame, attachment styles and more.
Krispin & DL mention Messes of Men by mewithoutyou
DL mentions Ethical OCD, and here’s a great article on it.
Krispin references Becoming Attached by Robert Karen.
Diane Poole Heller has an Attachment Quiz you can take to find out yours!
We use the audio from The Good Place Podcast.
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October 26, 2023 • 51 mins
DL and Krispin talk about S1 E8 titled “Most Improved Player.” We talk about how systems maintain the status quo, and the ethics of transparency in different contexts. And also, surprisingly, about the MCU a little bit.
Krispin mentions the On God’s Campus, a podcast about how religious exemptions have allowed Christian colleges to ban interracial relationships and LGBGTQIA+ students and staff.
Krispin mentions also one of his favo...
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October 12, 2023 • 48 mins
DL and Krispin talk about S1 E7 titled “The Eternal Shriek.” We talk about how being polite isn't always the most ethical decision. We also talk about eschatology and how Kant was a a lonely, obsessive hermit with no friends.
We use the audio from The Good Place Podcast.
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September 28, 2023 • 52 mins
DL and Krispin talk about S1 E6 titled “What We Owe to Each Other.” We talk about the ethics (and exploitation) of promises, the TV show Friends, and much much more!
DL mentions the book Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown.
Also, here’s the interview with T.M. Scanlon where they ask him how he felt about their use of his book in The Good Place.
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September 21, 2023 • 58 mins
We're releasing last month's patreon-only episode on the main feed today. We talk about Yancey's book that came out in 2000 that validated doubts, disappointments and insecurities, while urging people to stick it out in Christianity, even if it didn't feel right. Krispin shares about how this book shaped his journey. Together, Krispin & DL reflect on it in the context of what we know from Yancey's memoir that released in 2021.
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September 7, 2023 • 55 mins
Spoilers in the episode! DL and Krispin talk about S1 E5 titled “Category 55 Emergency Doomsday Crisis.” We talk about unjust systems that we call good, how groundbreaking Hamilton was when this episode aired, and more!
We use the audio from The Good Place Podcast.
Here’s the first episode of the series where we talk about the Adventures in Odyssey episodes that feature Marc Evan Jackson’s voice.
Wanna hear more about fascism? Chec...
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August 24, 2023 • 55 mins
DL and Krispin talk about S1 E4 titled “Jason Mendoza.” We talk about self-acceptance, shame, and systems that create hierarchies of who is considered good and bad. And we laugh a lot because of Jason Mendoza.
We use the audio from The Good Place Podcast.
Krispin mentions Best in Miniature (which unfortunately you only watch in Canada, or with a VPN)
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August 10, 2023 • 53 mins
DL and Krispin talk about S1 E3 titled "Tahani Al Jamil." We talk about what makes a person good, directional insanity and what could be done with 60 billion dollars.
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July 27, 2023 • 49 mins
Is flying the most selfish super power? And can people change? This episode, DL and Krispin talk about S1E2 (“Flying”) of the Good Place and the philosophical questions that come with it!
DL mentions Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater.
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July 13, 2023 • 54 mins
This is the FIRST EPISODE of This Is the Bad Place, a recap podcast of the NBC's Good Place TV show.
We’re covering the pilot episode, and talking about ethical conundrums, anxiety about the afterlife, religious trauma, and whether Ted Danson’s character is some form of Billy Graham.
DL mentions The Good Place: the Podcast.
They also mention How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur.
Also, Kesha’s song is actually just called Sleazy.
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June 26, 2023 • 50 mins
TW: religious abuse, sexual abuse, family cover-up of abuse, psychological abuse, retaliation for abuse allegations.
Most of this episode discusses sexual abuse and child pornography. There's a short section 13:55-22:55 that discusses the plan for Christian homeschoolers to go to Washington and republican politics, and also current youtube Christina influencers. Then, 39:40-end is free of triggers around sexual abuse, and discusses...
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June 19, 2023 • 47 mins
TW: religious abuse, sexual abuse, family cover-up of abuse, psychological abuse, harsh punishment of children), controlling parenting, grooming and sexual abuse.
Here's a breakdown of the episode and the topics:
0:00 Introduction, brief non-specific mention on Josh's child pornography charges.
2:00 Discussion of free labor in evangelical spaces
23:00 Discussion of sexual abuse from Gothard and sexual abuse within the IBLP.
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June 12, 2023 • 56 mins
TW: religious abuse, sexual abuse, family cover-up of abuse, emotional neglect, psychological abuse, physical abuse (and violent punishment of children), intimate partner abuse
Here's a breakdown of the episode and the topics:
0:00 Introduction, overview of episode, discussion of why traumatized people can be drawn to fundamentalism
9:45 homeschooling
22:10 subjugation of women; abuse of girls & women, purity culture, gender roles
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