An All Pizzas Thanksgiving with Rivers McCown
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Writer of the Man, Free newsletter Rivers McCown joins Drew and Roth to talk all things NFL as we head into the tailend of the season. But first, Rivers describes his experience restarting on Substack after taking more than a year off from media. After that, we get into burning football questions: What’s going on with the Texans and CJ Stroud? Why are the Chiefs so boring to watch? Are coaches becoming more collaborative with players, and is that even a good thing? And the show wraps up with the Funbag, answering real questions from real listeners.
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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
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| 0:00.0 | We're back. We're back. It's a distraction. I'm Drew. That's Roth. How are you doing? Roth? |
| 0:05.9 | I'm all right, man. How are thanks? Did you have a good Thanksgiving? No. No, it was very nice, actually. Wow. Way to ruin the party. |
| 0:13.1 | No. I thought it would be fun to give you an answer. And here I thought Trump winning would be the worst thing that happened this year. No. I like lying on the podcast. No, we had a good one. It was like, you know, the older my parents get, the more I have to do and the more everybody kind of has to pitch in. But that was cool. Like, it worked out. The food was good. Nice time. Had by all. My parents dog charmed my father-in-law. no no real complaints that's good that's how about you |
| 0:39.8 | did you have a good time it was good we didn't have to travel anywhere but i for like we were we made |
| 0:44.3 | thanksgiving and people came over and like by seven o'clock i was fucking wiped i was like i was like |
| 0:50.5 | can you motherfuckers leave now i just want to watch a shitty football game. |
| 0:56.8 | But it was good. |
| 0:57.6 | It was a good time. |
| 1:00.5 | And then also, my daughter was home from college for the first time. |
| 1:05.8 | And the kid coming home from college feeling, it was my first time experiencing that, |
| 1:07.6 | I highly recommend it. |
| 1:10.1 | You have to have a child and raise it and then send it to college. |
| 1:14.4 | That's an involved process. But once you get to this part, it's pretty fun. |
| 1:15.0 | Nice. |
| 1:20.9 | Hey, it's our guest, Rivers McCown, formerly a couple outsiders. And now of his own, |
| 1:26.8 | substack, Riversmacound.substack.com. Rivers has been on the podcast before, and he's back again. |
| 1:28.2 | Welcome, Rivers. Hey, man. How's it going, guys? Uh, Italian Thanksgiving here. Nice. |
| 1:31.6 | All pizzas. All pizzas. For real? Yep. All pizzas and, uh, some calzone. Did you make them or |
| 1:37.3 | order them? We made. Do you have the, like the, the Ubi pizza of Ooni? No, no, we, we didn't get that deep into the weeds. |
| 1:46.1 | It was just in the oven. |
| 1:47.1 | But interesting experiment. |
| 1:49.4 | Crest didn't come out that well, kind of thing it's just done. |
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