Apollo 13 Was a Well Made Movie with Will Tavlin
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Will Tavlin, writer of the piece Casual Viewing in n+1, talks to Drew and Roth about why every movie on Netflix looks like that. Why does Netflix not only survives, but thrives, when no one is watching? How does the crappy look of Netflix movies fit with their initial DVD business model? And how has Will been responding to the readers who think this article is depressing?
Stuff We Talked About
- ‘Not second screen enough’: is Netflix deliberately dumbing down TV so people can watch while scrolling?
- Reality Check: The boom — or glut — in streaming documentaries has sparked a reckoning among filmmakers and their subjects
- Ted Sarandos’s Plan to Get You to Binge Even More Netflix - The New York Times
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Credits
- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth
- Producer: Eric Silver
- Editor: Brandon Grugle
- 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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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We're back. We're back. It's a distraction. I'm Drew. That's wrong. They're doing, Roth. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm good, man. How are you? I'm fine. So I get the mail yesterday. What should arrive in the mail? |
| 0:11.1 | But the most appropriately late holiday card, anyone could receive from David Roth. |
| 0:16.4 | Who is it from? |
| 0:18.7 | It was from you. And by the way, the picture, excellent photo. |
| 0:22.2 | You look great in the photo. |
| 0:23.5 | And your wife did too, but you looked. |
| 0:25.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:26.3 | I got a lot of, did a lot of photo editing there. |
| 0:29.6 | I had to sort of, my stubble in it is laser precise. |
| 0:33.3 | It took me hours. |
| 0:34.4 | Well done. |
| 0:35.2 | Like you got the Sean McVeigh stubble. |
| 0:36.7 | You get cut like West Bentley and fucking the Hunger Games and shit. It took me hours. Well done. Like you got the Sean McVeigh's double? Yeah, right. |
| 0:37.7 | Like West Bentley and fucking the Hunger Games and shit. |
| 0:41.7 | Yeah, that's what I'm trying to, I get that comparison a lot. |
| 0:44.5 | The West Bentley comp, the classic. |
| 0:46.6 | Yeah, my wife wanted to become a sending a holiday card family like in our mid-30s. |
| 0:52.4 | And we don't have kids and it's not something that my family |
| 0:55.8 | ever did or prioritized but it's kind of nice to be able to do it's just also we never get them out |
| 1:00.7 | in time for like you know happiest holidays or any of that shit so nobody ever does yeah the one we |
| 1:05.5 | sent last year was like hopefully you're seeing this by valentine's day or something like that and |
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