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

Hello.

Hi, J.D. lovely to have you here.

And this man must be the singularity, because he's not just in front of me on the Zoom screen.

He's everywhere.

You can read him at the athletic where he writes the bounce, the essential NBA

newsletter. You can hear him talk ball on Count the Dings and serious XM NBA radio, and you can debate

him in your head as you listen to Cynophobe, his podcasts about poorly reviewed movies that might

actually be good. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Zach Harper. Zach, welcome to Is This Good?

What an intro.

Is the point of this podcast, like when you get to the series finale, you figure out was the podcast good?

Is that the end game or is there no end game?

You just see this going into forever.

No, unfortunately, it's a week by week.

It's a week by week assessment, Zach, where I get off and I go, J.D., what did I do wrong?

What did I do wrong, J.D.? The guest seemed upset at me the whole time.

Yeah. I think it's the racial slurs that you throw out there that, you know, they get edited out

some, but very tasteful. Some slip through. Some slip through. JD edits them, but it... Purposely in an awkward way so people know, something was cut out there. And he was just saying, you know who I got a problem with? And then it just cuts to something completely different. And I think people are starting to catch on, Zach.

Yeah.

Look, I caught on just the weird thing.

It wasn't even about, you know, Trey, Tray Kirby.

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