A Century of Podcast Episodes! with Eric Silver
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Producer of The Distraction and co-host of Attach Your Résumé Eric Silver joins Drew and Roth to celebrate 100 episodes in the new era of the show. What is different about the media industry since we started? Have Drew and Roth gotten better on the mic? Is there a petition to bring back the mashups?
In the second half, they make their picks for the college football playoff based on information from their brains and certainly not astroturfed like Timothee Chalamet. And the show wraps up with the Funbag, answering real questions from real listeners.
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Stuff We Talked About
- Here’s “the affirmative action is bad cause I didn’t get into Ivy League schools” article and on the Today Show!
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Credits
- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth
- Producer: Eric Silver
- Editor: Brandon Grugle
- Production Services & Ads: Multitude Productions
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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. We're back. It's a distraction. I'm Drew. That's raw. That you doing, Roth. |
| 0:06.2 | I'm good, man. I'm locked in. I'm ready to pod. |
| 0:09.8 | We have our tree up. Let me tell you a little story about our tree. |
| 0:15.4 | We've had a fake tree for the past, I don't know, 10 or 15 years, right? And like, it's sort of, you know, it's a fake |
| 0:23.2 | tree, so it, you know, it deteriorates as a product. Like, she had a couple of fake needles. And |
| 0:27.7 | eventually my wife, she had to go and, like, remove all of the, like, the attached lighting |
| 0:33.3 | and, like, decorate, like, string the lights like it was a normal-ass Christmas tree. |
| 0:38.0 | And we've been using it and keeping it up in the attic for years and years and years. |
| 0:41.7 | And then this year, after my dad died, I said to her, I was like, you know what, why don't |
| 0:46.4 | we get like a nicer fake tree? |
| 0:49.0 | This one's looking a little ratty. |
| 0:50.2 | I want to, you know, I want to do, you know, Christmas is very important to me, so I'd like to do something a bit more sort of, you know, I'd like to do it up a little bit more. |
| 0:58.5 | She's like, okay, I'll, you know, I don't really care, but, you know, go out and, and, you know, buy one. |
| 1:05.9 | So it's your problem if you want to do it. |
| 1:07.5 | So I go to Home Depot. And because we haven't bought a Christmas |
| 1:12.5 | tree fake or real in many, many years, I actually did not know like what the fuck a Christmas tree |
| 1:18.3 | is supposed to cost anymore. Like, I don't know what anything is supposed to cost anymore. |
| 1:22.4 | Thanks Trump. But like, you know, like, because of the inflation stuff and all that, like, and because I'm old, |
| 1:29.7 | like I don't know what the fuck. I'm, you know, I'm like, I'm Lucille Bluth. I don't know what |
| 1:34.1 | I asked. Can I ask what you expected it cost? I expected a good fake tree to be like a couple |
| 1:40.8 | hundred bucks. And apparently there's like this like really prime brand called Balsam Hill. |
| 1:47.3 | Yeah. |
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