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 Ann Austin, and with me, as always, is production

powerhouse Jason Doyle. Hello. Hi, JD. Great to have you here. And today's guest made me

laugh really hard a little while ago, and I've wanted to have her on the show since. She's an

amazing stand-up. She's one half of two dykes and a mic. The hit podcast that's currently selling out

live shows all across

this beautiful country.

And she's a real Basset Hound, aka a lover and appreciator of Angela Bassett.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's Rachel Scanlon.

Rachel, welcome to Is This Good.

Hi, thank you for having me.

Okay, what do you doing this week?

You're running intervals, hill repeats, fart licks?

Oh my God. I'm so glad you asked. It's a taper week. The marathon is on Sunday.

Oh, you're doing the L.A. Marathon. Yes, I am. Yeah. So it is very strange to be, you know,

you build, you run, you run, you're doing, you know, 18, 20 miles. And then this week is like, you run four

and two, I mean, I'm barely even sweating. But it's important. It's important. You got to let that

body rest. I'm already carving up. I'm carving up big. I'm going to go ham. I'm like, it's

spaghetti meatballs tonight. I am like fully stocked up. I'm ready to rock.

I mean, I'm taking the carbohydrates a little too far and that's my, that's my choice as an athlete.

You need them. Your body needs that energy. So this is your first one, right? Yes, this is my first marathon. Yeah. I ran a half marathon once, and then I was like, okay, that was way too fucking easy, obviously.

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