America Named a Team For Chicken Nuggets (with Rohan Nadkarni)
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Sports Illustrated’s Rohan Nadkarni returns to the show to preview the NBA Finals with the Miami Heat and the Denver Nuggets. Drew, Roth, and Rohan talk the power of Caleb Martin, hate on the Celtics to a respectful degree, decide if the Nuggets are being stiffed by national media, and make time to complain about the Mountain Time Zone. All that and Remembering a Guy, diving into the Funbag, and a very special Sandwich Expert Corner, are coming up on this episode.
Stuff We Talked About
- Rohan's article on ECF Game 6
- Rohan's article on Bam from Nov 2022
- Rohan called his shot on Caleb Martin
- Jaylen Brown’s supermax projections
- Rohan writing about how the Celtics shouldn’t break up
- Rohan’s piece about Jokic MVP article from last year
- Rohan writing about Aaron Gordon
- Defector in CJR!
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Credits
- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth
- Producer: Eric Silver
- Editor: Brandon Grugle
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About The Show
From Defector Media: Former Deadspin writers Drew Magary and David Roth should really stick to sports. Sure, their new indie sports podcast will break down the week in sports: the Mets grounding into quadruple plays, NBA players getting testy on the court and horny on Instagram, Bill Belichick cutting 80% of his roster just to keep himself interested, horrifying takes from sports talk radio that need to be broken down, etc. But these two men and their guests will have their fair share of off-the-field issues they’ll also have to address: stupid Funbag questions, bad tweets from bad people, pointless food arguments, and even less. Every week is a VERY long week these days. We could all use a little 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. |
| 0:03.2 | It's the distraction I'm through, that's wrong. |
| 0:05.4 | How you doing, bro? |
| 0:06.2 | I'm good, man, how are things? |
| 0:07.8 | I'm good, I'm good. |
| 0:09.2 | My internet went out just as we were starting the podcast, |
| 0:12.0 | but now I'm doing it on my phone. |
| 0:13.7 | Fuck it, we're doing it live. |
| 0:15.4 | Yeah, this is amazing. |
| 0:16.6 | It's like being in a comedy club |
| 0:19.3 | when one of the legends is performing. |
| 0:21.1 | This is like watching Dennis Leary |
| 0:24.0 | talk about coffee for 40 minutes right now. |
| 0:26.2 | That's right, that's right. |
| 0:27.3 | You don't like coffee, you get fucked, buddy. |
| 0:29.3 | Like, yeah, I'm gonna be all about that. |
| 0:31.9 | And it was important that the series internet went out, |
| 0:34.1 | he put a leather jacket on and was able to start recording. |
| 0:37.2 | It's important I'd be here |
| 0:38.2 | because we had to put up the emergency podcast siren |
| 0:41.4 | for something that we'll post two days after we've taped it |
| 0:44.0 | because we just watched Eastern comments finals. |
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