A Difference of Degree and in Kind
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
We remember Dan McQuade.
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Stuff We Talked About
- Lone Wolf McQuade
- American malls
- Baywatch
- Sneakers
- Knight Rider
- Being jumbotron-worthy
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Credits
- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth
- Producer: Brandon Grugle
- Editor: Mischa Stanton
- Production Services & Ads: Multitude Podcasts
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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. |
| 0:02.5 | It's a distraction. |
| 0:04.2 | I'm Drew. |
| 0:04.9 | That's Roth and Roth. |
| 0:06.2 | That will be as animated as I get for the rest of this episode. |
| 0:10.7 | That's respect. |
| 0:11.6 | That is a problem. |
| 0:12.3 | We have, there's a ton of stuff going on nationally this week. |
| 0:16.4 | Obviously, it's Super Bowl week. |
| 0:19.1 | Trump's ice is still terrorizing the Midwest and other parts of the country. |
| 0:23.8 | And the Epstein files began dropping in greater number on Friday night. |
| 0:28.3 | It turns out that we are indeed run by a global cabal of pedophiles who love to schmooze with one another. |
| 0:35.0 | That's cool. |
| 0:35.5 | However, we have bigger topics to tackle. And |
| 0:38.7 | it's paying tribute to our old friend Dan McQuaid, who died last week. These are 43 of cancer. |
| 0:45.8 | If I may, Roth, you mind if I give some background to people for a little bit? Yeah, please. |
| 0:51.1 | Okay. So, Dan, I first met Dan when he was hired, I believe, by Tim Marchman, it did spin. This was 10 years ago. I didn't go look up the exact date, but I had known him, you know, I didn't know who he was at the time, but Marcher said, oh, you love this guy, he called him Lone Wolf McQuade after the TV show. And I was like, all right, his name's Lone Wolf. And then he was a movie. And then he turned out he looked like a wolf because he had this beautiful flowing made of hair. Anyway, so I work with Dan in over the course of 10 years. And everyone has fun stories about Dan texting him, like all this crazy shit. |
| 1:29.2 | Dan was, Dan would go to me to complain. |
| 1:32.4 | So I was like his sounding board if he was unhappy at working. |
| 1:36.2 | I'm not going to, I'm not going to detail any of his grievances. |
| 1:39.6 | No, do it. |
| 1:40.4 | No, no, no. |
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