A Boy Named Cloud with Dan McQuade
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The podcast title is referencing Final Fantasy, so you know that Defector’s own Dan McQuade is joining Drew and Roth. They’re talking about how bad the Eagles are, how bad Jalen Hurts is, and which PS1 games fit which NFL teams. In the second half, they wonder if any team would take Draymond Green, and by team they mean wrestling organization. And as always, we get some voicemail Funbag questions.
This is our last episode of the year, so see you in 2024!
Stuff We Talked About
- Read Dan's Eagles and local commercial coverage on Defector
- There really is a Stephen King short story about eating someone’s lawn
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Credits
- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth
- Producer: Eric Silver
- Editor: Mischa Stanton
- Production Services & Ads: Multitude
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About The Show
The Distraction is Defector's flagship podcast about sports (and movies, and art, and sandwiches, and certain coastal states) from longtime writers Drew Magary and David Roth. Every week, Drew and Roth tackle subjects, both serious and impossibly stupid, with a parade of guests from around the world of sports and media joining in the fun! Roth and Drew also field Funbag questions from Defector readers, answer listener voicemails, and get upset about the number of people who use speakerphone while in a public bathroom stall. This is a show where everything matters, because everyone could use a Distraction. Head to defector.com for more info.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We're back! It's a distraction! Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Merry Christmas! I'm true! That's Roth! |
| 0:10.0 | That's Santa Claus himself. What an amazing get, because it's really hard to book him |
| 0:15.2 | this time of year. |
| 0:16.2 | Rudolph. |
| 0:18.6 | What's the, you have a couple of Santa voices |
| 0:20.6 | that you like to do. |
| 0:21.3 | This is, it's all coming back to me now. |
| 0:23.0 | Yeah yeah, yeah, I haven't watched Rudolph yet, but you better believe it would be like, |
| 0:27.6 | every year I shine up my jingle bit. There it is. |
| 0:31.0 | Right lucky reindeer. There it is. There it is. Lucky reindeer. |
| 0:34.0 | Sounds like home. |
| 0:35.0 | How you doing, Roth? |
| 0:36.0 | Yeah, I'm hanging in. |
| 0:38.0 | You excited for the break? |
| 0:39.0 | I am, as always, I am already mentally on vacation. |
| 0:43.3 | So I hope you're excited for an extremely half-ass podcast. |
| 0:47.0 | I could not be more excited for an extremely half-ass |
| 0:50.2 | podcast. |
| 0:50.7 | I have a lot of stuff that I need to do before I go but that's always true and at some |
| 0:55.2 | point I am not going to be in New York City anymore and we'll have to do a bunch of Christmas |
| 0:59.5 | stuff and I will enjoy it. Like we're going to go pick out a tree. We got to do the whole shit stem to stir in this year. So that's all right. That's all new to me. This is like I'm a traveler in a strange land and your Gentile folkways will amuse and delight me as they do every year. |
| 1:16.3 | Speaking of Waspi stuff, it is a college admission season and I got to tell you a quick story before we bring on our guest my daughter |
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