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Drew Magary | High School Reunions

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Bleav + Rachel Selig & Jason Doyle

Leisure, Society & Culture, Relationships, Sports, Comedy, Interview

4.9526 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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🐾 Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood 🐾 On today’s show, Drew Magary (Defector) joins Matt & JD to discuss hanging out with Justin Bieber, shooting guns with Chris Pratt, having a Toy Soldiers fantasy, the best age to attend a high school reunion, getting roasted by teachers, looking worse in photos than mirrors, the nostalgia of a tiny urinal, behind-the-scenes of being a Chopped contestant, the tyranny of spaghetti, sending food back for having a hair in it, guarding a secret family recipe, kitchen ASMR, and talking to college kids about your work. 𝐗 Follow Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewmagary 👕 Is [This] Good? Merch: https://breakingt.com/isthisgood 📺 Subscribe to Is [This] Good? on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@isthisgood 😎 Follow Is [This] Good? on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/isthisgoodpod 📸 Follow Matt Osten on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mosten 📸 Follow JD on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tjasondoyle 🏀 Subscribe to No Dunks on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nodunksinc

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's new from Apple? There's the new iPhone 16 Pro built for Apple Intelligence.

0:04.7

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0:09.5

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0:13.6

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0:19.8

So quiet. Check out all of the new AirPods four models. So quiet.

0:21.8

Check out all of the new products and new features at Apple.com.

0:24.6

You can even buy yourself something new.

0:27.1

See Apple.com for product availability updates.

0:28.9

Apple Intelligence coming this fall.

0:48.6

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?

0:53.1

I'm Matt Austin, and with me as always is production powerhouse Jason Doyle.

0:53.6

Hello.

0:54.7

Hi, JD.

0:55.6

Thanks for coming.

1:01.7

And today's guest is a columnist for SFGate, a co-founder of Defector, and the author of many books,

1:05.5

including The Night the Lights went out, a memoir of life after brain damage.

1:12.1

You know him from his podcasting on the distraction, his mailbags on Deadspin, but I always think of him as the person who alerted me via a GQ profile that Justin Bieber had a line in a song that went, true story,

1:18.7

swag, swag, swag, swag on you, chilling by the fire while we eat and fondue. A very treasured memory

1:24.2

for me. It's the internet's most beloved hater. Drew McGarry, Drew,

1:28.0

welcome to Is This Good. I forgot about that Bieber lyric. I'm so pleased to remember some lyrics

1:34.2

with you. And you know what's funny is I did that. So that was 2012 when I was sent to Profile

1:41.3

B-Roe. It was my first big boy assignment for GQ. They were like, look, if you can do this assignment,

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