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The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Sports, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Rohan is back with Drew and Roth to talk about the Mamdani win and what it could mean for the political future. But don’t worry, there’s plenty of sandwich talk as well! Then, they talk about the Dolphins, the Jets, the World Series, and the real insider secret to getting traded: location, location, location.

Do you want to hear your question answered on the pod? Well, give us a call at 909-726-3720. That is 909-PANERA-0!

Stuff We Talked About

NYC has a good mayor!
Secretary of Sandwiches Nadkarni
Pretending to be someone else in an Uber
Coaches not just on the field, but in real life
Planting a porn tree you will never sit under

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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	Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.com. U.K. slash Wondery. That's audible. dot code.uk slash Wondery. We're back. We're back. It's a distraction. I'm Drew. That's Roth. How do you do to you, Roth? I'm doing all right, man. I'm feeling okay. You have a new mayor and it's a good one.
0:22.3	Holy shitballs.
0:23.3	I can't believe it.
0:24.6	Yeah, it feels amazing, actually. We'll see how long I'm able to, I don't expect to keep this energy for the entire episode. I don't think anybody wants that, but, but yeah, you're so irrepressibly energetic all the time. People are like, wow, that David Roth, he sure is caffeinated.
0:38.0	You know, it's like, you know, it's like trying to like tamper down, you know, Rip Taylor or something like that. Yeah, I often get the Rip Taylor cop is what I get a lot. So loud, so flamboyant, you know, just partying all the time. Hey, we have Rohan not Carneyback of NBC Sports. He's our guest. Rohan, how happy are you for Roth and for New York City?
0:56.4	Yeah, how happy are you for Roth and for New York City?
0:56.3	Yeah, how happy are you for me?
0:58.5	I'm pretty excited.
1:00.2	We have an Indian mayor.
1:01.5	I'm claiming him, obviously.
1:04.0	You know, walking off stage to do Machale, like, it's so lit.
1:07.9	Roth, I'm curious, how is your life changed since I correctly identified you as the thinking
1:15.8	socialist woman sex symbol on my last appearance on this podcast?
1:19.3	Oh, that's right.
1:20.3	You posited the Roth, a snack?
1:23.6	Yeah, I did posit.
1:25.1	I did posit.
1:25.9	It was interesting positing.
1:29.6	I appreciated that you did it in front of Drew and Michael Scher. I like to have people that I respect professionally be like, is he getting it in,
1:35.7	though? So it hasn't, this will tell you a little something about our demographics of our
1:41.1	listenership, probably not anything that's going to surprise you. It has changed my life mostly in that for a while, people were replying to me being like, oh, look at this guy,
1:48.7	the fucking the flannel guy that everybody wants to climb on top of. But no, it has not caused any
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