Hello and welcome to The Great Beyond and is this good companion pod where we follow up on last week's episode, answer listener questions, and catch up with each other.

The person I'm catching up with is, of course, Jason Doyle, J.D. How are you? I'm doing great. How are you?

I'm good. I'm back in Los Angeles, as I'm sure we'll discuss, I was in Atlanta for the last five days.

But before we get to that, did anything good or not good happen to this week?

If me coming to see you was the good thing.

It was a good thing.

Or the not good thing.

Feel free to say, I won't be offended.

You absolutely would be offended.

Yeah, probably. Well, if you gave me a good reason. I don't be offended. You absolutely would be offended. Yeah, probably.

Well, if you gave me a good reason.

No, no, no, it was great.

It was great having you back in the city?

A lot of firsts, my first time ever to Tasmalis's house, that was a treat.

Okay.

And our first pickleball game together.

Yeah.

Well, I knew we were going to get to that.

I heard you guys discuss it briefly on No Dunks.

Of course, the thing that was most interesting to them to discuss was how I, a relatively

in shape, Sprite 41-year-old man injured myself playing a game that was popularized

by the elderly. So I'm sure we'll get to that. But the question that I had was, of course,

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