Ch. 23: Manny Jacinto, Actor | Tyler Straessle, Writer | Tom Zawacki, Props

The Good Place: The Podcast

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4.9 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Actor Manny Jacinto, writer Tyler Straessle and Tom Zawacki from props shoot the shirt with host Marc Evan Jackson to talk about Tyler writing his first episode of The Good Place, the casts' Comic-Con experience, the comedic specificity of the props, how Manny’s auditions are different now because of the show and a shirt-ton more funny anecdotes and behind-the-scenes stories.

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0:00.0	Hi there! Welcome to the Good Place, the podcast.
0:06.7	Janet, what's a podcast?
0:08.9	A podcast is a thing humans invented to procrastinate from doing important things,
0:13.6	like actual work or spending time with their families.
0:16.9	Meet! Enjoy this week's episode.
0:19.9	Welcome to the Good Place, the podcast. I'm Mark Evan Jackson. I play Sean.
0:31.2	Today we're talking about chapter 23, season 2, episode 9, best self, directed by Julian
0:36.4	Robinson, written by Tyler Strassley. Michael conjures a giant golden balloon that he
0:41.1	claims is the human's transportation to the real good place. In order to get on board,
0:44.8	Eleanor, Cheety, Tahani and Jason have to be the best version of themselves. Each works
0:49.7	through their self-doubt, culminating with Eleanor asking Michael to describe the reboot
0:53.3	where she and Cheety were in love. Michael reveals that this was all a giant stall tactic.
0:57.8	He actually has no idea how to get to the good place. The four drunkenly celebrate
1:02.0	their last night before they're doomed, and Tahani gets the idea to speak to the manager
1:05.8	of the afterlife, the judge. They leave the neighborhood which dissolves behind them.
1:10.4	My guest today are Tom Zawaki from the Property Department, script coordinator and writer
1:14.2	of this episode, Tyler Strassley. Many of you sent to who plays Jason Mendoza. Many Tyler
1:19.3	and Tom, welcome. Everything is fine. There's not much to talk about in this episode. I guess
1:26.3	we should just maybe wrap it up and do what's good. You guys been watching Atlanta? Let's
1:30.5	talk about that. Yeah. This episode actually has some emotion from Jason
1:38.4	Mendoza. He considers his own sort of what the real bad place would be like for himself.
1:43.8	Do you remember what that was? Yeah. It was like being at a Skrillex concert and waiting
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