A Fish-Eating American
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.7 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
It’s summer, and Drew and Roth are both sunburned, so it’s time to talk about politics. Then, they answer questions from the Funbag, full of real questions from real listeners. Happy July 4th!
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Stuff We Talked About
- Foot meat
- NYC grocery stores being bad
- Being the child in your own relationship
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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. We're back. It's a distraction. I'm true. That's raw. They don't bra. I'm good. I'm good. I'm doing the thing that you sometimes do, where I'm podcasting from the future. I'm in Maine as this is being released. |
| 0:17.4 | Oh. While we're recording, I'm still here in New York City, sweating it out. |
| 0:21.5 | Wow, you use the flux capacitor to transport yourself to present-day Maine. |
| 0:26.5 | What a coup. |
| 0:27.9 | The state. |
| 0:28.8 | Yeah, it's amazing. |
| 0:29.8 | They said it was impossible that someone could be in a state's a little bit further north than where they usually are. |
| 0:36.7 | You could have traveled back in time and prevented Mamdani's victory. |
| 0:40.3 | Nope. Don't care. That's not what I'm in it for. I'm trying to go to Young's lobster pounded, |
| 0:45.1 | Belfast, Maine, and eat a sandwich. You could have prevented the terror of imaginary anti-Semitism |
| 0:52.8 | polluting your... |
| 0:54.5 | My favorite bit of this. |
| 0:56.4 | So obviously, this is the other thing. |
| 0:57.7 | We are recording, like, right after we recorded last week's podcast. |
| 1:01.4 | So I'm still keyed up to fucking talk about Mamdani. |
| 1:04.0 | It'll be old news by next week. |
| 1:05.4 | You knew the forces of evil would swoop in, like, five, like, I just opened up |
| 1:09.7 | the Washington Post's as morning and it was |
| 1:11.2 | like like this is bad for democrats and for new york and like it led off with like while |
| 1:16.7 | his victory may seem refreshing yeah well we're owned by jeff bezos and he doesn't like it and he's |
| 1:23.0 | about to get married to his road beef it's so remedial too like i i read the whole thing like a |
| 1:29.2 | fucking idiot and it was oh come on don't do that it's my fault but the the bit of it that i liked |
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