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4.9 • 526 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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🐾 Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood 🐾 On today’s show, Fred Katz (The Athletic) joins MattyO & JD to discuss haggling at Wal-Mart, the greatness of FactsBuddy.com, schmearing a bagel, burning your birth certificate, shoes that make you look taller, naming your kid after punctuation, Ellen DeGeneres’ cat, the third slice of bread in a Club Sandwich, inventing unimpressive things, places where TVs don’t belong, and a list of the worst-named fruits. 𝐗 Follow Fred on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fredkatz 👕 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Is This Good, the show are we boldly, conclusively, and
0:15.3	scientifically decide what things in this big wide world are good.
0:19.6	I'm at Austin and with me as always is production powerhouse
0:22.7	Jason Doyle. Hello. Hi, JD. Thanks for coming. Today's guest has worked for every sports
0:29.3	outfit you can name. ESPN, Bleacher Report, Fox Sports. Did you think I would forget about
0:35.7	RhodoWire? I have it bookmarked, okay? He's currently
0:40.4	the New York Knicks beatwriter for the athletic, co-hosts of the tampering podcast, and maybe,
0:45.4	just maybe, the heir to the Cats' deli fortune. There's money and corned beef people. Please welcome
0:51.7	the one and only Fred Katz. Fred, welcome to Is This Good?
0:56.0	Roto Wire. That was a, that was the first place that ever paid me to write about sports.
1:03.8	The first place that did it. I interned there when I was in college. They were awesome. Like the
1:09.2	nicest people ever. They were so good. And after I interned,
1:13.5	they let me write one NBA story a week about NBA prospects and start a fantasy baseball podcast
1:21.0	for them, which I asked my friend who was in a band at a college at the time,
1:28.9	at college,
1:29.8	to come up with the theme song for it.
1:32.4	So he wrote,
1:33.5	he took his time and he wrote this like very like sports introe intro to the pod.
1:39.1	And now his band is like wildly successful in opening for the Jonas brothers.
1:43.0	So a great piece of trivia
1:45.7	called Lawrence. If you're a fan of Lawrence, a great piece of Lawrence trivia is Lawrence
1:51.0	secretly wrote the the music intro to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast, which a college
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