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Leigh Ellis | Fad Diets

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Bleav + Rachel Selig & Jason Doyle

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

4.9 โ€ข 526 Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 29 April 2024

โฑ๏ธ 70 minutes

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Summary

๐Ÿพ Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood ๐Ÿพ On todayโ€™s show, Leigh Ellis joins Matt & JD to discuss completing his basketball world tour, food vs. sports, Imodium prophylactics, drinking on Copacabana Beach, slow dancing to 4 Non Blondes, asking strangers to apply sunscreen to your back, taking trips early on in relationships, why tennis players insist on silence, eating raw liver meat, sucking up to credit card companies, calling Allen Iverson, and does Charles Barkley really want to go to Australia? ๐Ÿ“ธ Follow Leigh on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/LeighEllis ๐Ÿ‘• Is [This] Good? Merch: https://breakingt.com/isthisgood ๐Ÿ“บ Subscribe to Is [This] Good? on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@isthisgood ๐Ÿ˜Ž Follow Is [This] Good? on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/isthisgoodpod ๐Ÿ“ธ Follow Matt Osten on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mosten ๐Ÿ“ธ Follow JD on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tjasondoyle ๐Ÿ€ 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

And this? It's the sound of active noise cancellation, now available on one of two new AirPods-4 models.

0:19.8

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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.

0:49.5

Hello, and scientifically decide what things in this big, wide world are good?

0:54.4

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

0:54.8

Hello.

0:57.1

Hi, JD. Thanks for coming.

1:02.4

And today's guest is a man at work who left his crowded house to burn the midnight oil as he traveled to in excess of 20 countries hunting and collecting international basketball stories.

1:09.4

And even though it's really good to see ya,

1:12.1

I will offer this slim, dusty, bad seed no favor as he steps into my savage garden.

1:18.2

Please welcome the one and only international man of mystery. Lee, welcome back to is this good.

1:24.4

Hunters and collectors, man. You're going back. I'm surprised you even knew them, really, because they were big in Melbourne, especially in the early 90s, early to mid-90s, but didn't think they had much traction beyond Australia. So shout out to... Well, they absolutely did not. I think it was just that I went to summer camp where there was like Australian counselors there, so they would

1:44.5

force their music upon us. And actually, I don't know if you remember this, but I'm pretty sure

1:48.0

Eddie Vedder did a cover of Throw Your Arms Around Me. I don't know if it was like with them

1:53.0

on stage or that was like a bootleg going around in the Limewire era. You surely have your

2:00.3

powder finger on the button, Matt. I was going to try to work that in there, but I know that, you know, you don't want to talk about your rampant cocaine use. So I didn't want to bring up powder finger. Well, you know he is a hoodoo guru of music. Oh, my God. This is, wow. It's back even further. You've got the right time, JD. I'll say that. All right. So let's not spend on all show naming Australian bands. Let's go over, you know, where we are, how we got here. So, Lee, as you know, I was your colleague for many years, the score at NBA TV. We worked together.

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