A Hot Sauce Faceprint on the Hotel Door with Rohan Nadkarni

The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Sports, Society & Culture

4.4 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Rohan, of NBC News and sandwich fame, is back! He fills Drew and Roth in on his Italian Olympic experience, including, most importantly, his favorite meals. Rohan, like the rest of us, was bowled over by ice dancing, and by how Italians eat Italian food every day. Then, they talk Miami’s new QB, the US losing to Italy in the World Baseball Classic, and Bam’s 83 point game. Finally, they open up the funbag to answer real questions from real listeners, and only one of the questions is trash.

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Stuff We Talked About

Being profiled as American
Cool, smoking Italians
Pocket Coffee
Life-changing spicy salami
A bee-keeping suit for ice cream eating
Conductors – real or fake?
Secret trashbags

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Credits

- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth

- Producer: Brandon Grugle

- Editor: Mischa Stanton

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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 do, Roth. I'm good, man. How are
0:07.8	things? Oh, my God. I'm so good because we have Rohan on. He's back from Italy. So we're going to have an Olympic
0:15.0	sandwich report. But oh my God, Rohan, your timing was just exquisite. Now that did you come back from
0:20.5	Italy, which just thrashed us in baseball.
0:23.5	We were not sure he was coming back either.
0:25.9	Oh, yeah.
0:26.5	And then also, we're coming.
0:28.7	We are the day after Bam Otabio scored 83 goddamn points in a regulation national basketball association.
0:37.2	How you doing, Ron? How you feeling?
0:39.3	I feel great, man. I'm so happy for Bam, just the coolest, nicest dude.
0:44.3	It's like everything is so poisoned now and not to be like that guy that's like,
0:51.3	we need to bring back like earnestness. It's not even that.
0:55.2	But it's like people would like complain or like make jokes on NBA Twitter. And it's like, why is like Eudanus has them still on the heat? Like he doesn't even play anymore. Like, I'm still on the heat. No. He's not. He was until like two years ago. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Like, I want my favorite players to play for my favorite teams for as long as possible.
1:15.4	And I want my favorite players to do a cool shit on my favorite teams, like unabashedly.
1:21.9	And that's what I got to see last night, which is like, BAM out of Iowa, like, the nicest guy, just the sweetest human
1:28.1	being, like, the ultimate team player gets to have, like, the most absurd moment in, like,
1:34.1	modern NBA history.
1:35.3	And I'm like, I'm fully, fully for it.
1:37.7	It's awesome.
1:38.5	It rocks.
1:39.2	And I'm incredibly happy for it.
1:40.9	Yeah.
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