Hi there, I'm Janet. Welcome to the Good Place, the podcast.

Janet, what is a podcast?

It's like the radio, but there's no music, and literally anyone can do one at any moment

about any subject. And there's a billion of them.

Sounds great. Hope you enjoy this week's episode.

Welcome to the Good Place, the podcast. I'm Mark Evan Jackson. I play Sean.

Today we're talking about season one, episode four, Jason Mendoza.

Gianni reveals to Eleanor that he doesn't belong in the good place, and that he's really

a drug-dealing Filipino American DJ named Jason Mendoza from Jacksonville. His prayer room

is actually filled with video games. Eleanor and Cheety try to convince Jason to hide his

real identity. Tahani organizes the launch of a new restaurant, which Jason uses as the

opportunity to tell the truth. Eleanor creates a diversion, which ends up causing a giant

sinkhole to open in the floor. Guest cast includes Jamie Denbow, David Ferguson, Josh Siegel,

and Eugene Cordero. My guest today are writer and co-executive producer Joe Mandy and

Manny Isinto who plays Gianni and Jason Mendoza. Welcome, everything is fine.

Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thanks for being here. So we're talking this week about episode

104. Yes. What did you know at the time about this character? You knew that you'd speak

eventually? Yeah, I mean, with 104, I think that's, it was almost like going back to the

actual audition because this was finally when I could come out and be the guy that I auditioned

for. So it was super cool. I was also very antsy at the time because everybody was like,

man, this guy has the most cursed job, not having to speak and like little did they know.

So it was good to kind of make everybody, like surprise everybody and especially even some

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