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

Hello!

Hi, J.D.

And you may have read his humor writing that's appeared in publications like McSweeney's, The Toast, and Vulture.

You may know him from his line of drink coasters with witty phrases on them, though probably not because they did not sell well.

But I know him from my childhood where we'd watch Seinfeld in his basement, play street hockey in his driveway, and see every Rebecca DeMorne movie in theaters.

Please welcome a lifelong friend, Sam Carlisle. Sam, welcome to Is This Good.

Matthew, hello, J.D., hello. This is deeply exciting. Let me tell you. It is good to see a

familiar family. I've known you since, is it the third grade or the fourth grade? Fourth grade.

Yeah. Fourth grade. I came blasting in and we became quick, quick frenemies and then better friends.

Yeah.

That's right.

Thick as thieves.

Would you say that we have a lot of treasured memories together?

A trove of treasured memories.

It's been, it is alarming the number of years we know each other and even have shared

like the same location like there are like montreal times some Toronto times some back to

Montreal times back to Toronto times and to then like I still like the breakup the breakup dinner

where you took me to out to dinner in Toronto and then said I'm moving to Atlanta like it's still I'm still working through it in therapy because it was that was you know trauma we throw around trauma a lot these days but you know it was it's it's done it's done it does it hurt

it hurt me too but it wasn't my fault blame jd blame jd blame j skeets blame tasmellis that was not my fault

all right well i'm sure we'll we'll we'll get deeper into our friendship as we go along organically

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