Hello and welcome to Is This Good, the show are we boldly, conclusively, and scientifically decide what things in this big wide world are good?

I'm at Austin, and with me as always is

production powerhouse Jason Doyle. Hello. Hi, JD. Thanks for coming. And today's guest is the

former senior film and culture writer at Uprox. You can currently read him in GQ and his brand new

subsect called The Content Report. You can also hear him review movies on the film drunk frotcast and listen to him

recap every episode of The Wire on Pod Yourself the Wire.

If you're a top chef fan, you know he's the greatest nickname giver in the game.

But most importantly, according to his bio, he's just a really cool guy.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's Vince Mancini.

Vince, welcome to Is This Good?

That's probably the best introduction I've ever received, and thank you for that. Oh, well,

thanks for being here. We aim to please. I wanted to start off with a story that I just read of yours

in GQ. I'm going to set it up. So ostensibly, it's about a 33-year-old software

engineer at Uber named, and I hope I'm pronouncing this right, Vijay Hanumantharaju,

who decides to compete in his first Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament in Woodside, California,

gets to the tournament, his first match, he draws his opponent named Mark Elliott.

So can you take it from there? And what happened to this poor gentleman? Yeah, Mark

Elliott. Well, that turned out to be someone using their middle name. It was actually Mark Zuckerberg,

the Facebook founder.

Originally, when I wrote that story, I made a reference to friends.

I don't know if you remember back when John Favro was playing Monica's boyfriend, Pete Becker,

I think was his name, and he was like a computer magnate. And then she thinks he's about to propose, but he actually says, I'm going to become the

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