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Alston Young
Jason Young's Son, ACL Patient
Alston Young is Jason's oldest son, who joined the PTCH the afternoon before his ACL reconstruction surgery — recruited by text at 2:30 for a 3:00 recording. He is 16, watches enough PTCH to know the show's lore, and was already asking when he could lift again before the surgery had happened. The episode covered what an ACL tear actually is, what surgery does and doesn't fix, and what the recovery journey looks like in real time for a young athlete — told by someone living it rather than someone ten years removed with a polished retrospective. He also roasted Jason, which Kathy considers one of the show's highlights.