A Well-Rounded Apple Dome with Kathryn Xu
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Drew and Roth are joined by Kathryn Xu (Defector) to talk dogs! Kathryn covered the Westminster Dog Show, and it was a lovely, fluffy, yappy experience. Did her favorite, Aslan the Pomeranian, come out on top? Then, they talk Figure Skating and Olympic infidelity. Finally, they open the funbag to answer a strong question from a (probably) less-than-sober listener.
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Stuff We Talked About
- Dogs!
- Daniel the Golden
- Aslan the Pomeranian
- Doggie eugenics
- Semen marketplace
- Figure skating in How To Train Your Dragon
- One jacked arm
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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| 0:00.0 | We're back. We're back. It's the distraction. I'm Drew. That's Rod. I'm doing Roth. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm all right, man. How are you doing? You all right? I am talking to you live from New York City. |
| 0:13.1 | Yeah. I can tell because there's no large format, like, fathead of Tavares Jackson on the wall behind you. Like, that is, uh, that is, uh, that is vicious slander. I don't have a T-Jack fathead. It's just the Vikings logo. And that, after that Super Bowl, that is damning enough. So we don't have to really talk much more about. Hey, let's talk to our guests, though. It's our own Catherine shoe. |
| 0:38.0 | Oh, that's fine. Yeah, she's fine. Hello, hello. It's nice to be here. What's happening? |
| 0:43.7 | Nothing much. It's getting warmer in Philly, which is very nice. I know, right? Like, it's getting |
| 0:48.5 | up to like, it was like, it was like 38, like yesterday. I was like, it's 38 outside. |
| 0:54.9 | Like, wow. |
| 1:00.7 | I've completely Stockholm syndrome myself into like getting pumped when it's in the high 30s. |
| 1:01.7 | I seriously. Bad enough for long enough that I, yeah. |
| 1:04.8 | Have you like been trying to go do like fun stuff that you would want to do outside, even though it still sucks? |
| 1:11.4 | We've been doing a good amount of that. |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah, like, so I've been climbing a lot recently, and to get to the climbing gym is like a 20-minute walk. And I've been doing that. You mean, like, rock climbing. Yeah, yeah, rock climbing. No, she's like scampering around. She's doing parkour. Yeah, I'm going to the park by my house and I'm climbing every single tree I can in there. |
| 1:29.2 | Nice. That's great. |
| 1:30.1 | Winter activity. |
| 1:31.1 | I wouldn't be against it. Kids today are they're all a huck fin maxing. That's the new thing. So 20 minute walk to the climbing gym and you're like, let's fucking go. It's 38. I can't wait. I mean, it broke 30 and I was like, I need to go on a walk now. It's such |
| 1:44.7 | beautiful weather. Like, this is exactly what I want. You're in Philly. Shouldn't you be climbing |
| 1:48.8 | lamp posts and shit? No, this is all just so when the Eagles next one is superpool, I will be on |
| 1:55.6 | the lamp post doing. You might have to wait. Nobody wants to work for that fucking coach. |
| 2:01.3 | Like they had, he couldn't hire an offensive coordinator. |
| 2:04.5 | And then just a few days later, their old line coach, Jeff Stowland, who's one of the best in the league, was like, you know what? |
| 2:11.5 | I don't really want to do this anymore. |
| 2:13.2 | So, and like they might also lose Landon Dixon and maybe even Lane Johnson too. Like that team is so, it's so fucking weird that they are so good and yet such a shit wreck all the time. It's weird, man. The vibe is extraordinarily poor. We don't have to bring negativity into this, I think. Yeah. Well, no, no, we've, I know. We've been talking Nazi shit and, you know, friends who we've lost over the past few episodes. |
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