Eating a Super Soaker with a Knife & Fork
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
It’s a classic Drew and Roth solo joint, and they’re finally talking about currently ongoing sports instead of indulging Drew’s NFL fetish. Is there any reason to believe that this Knicks postseason won’t end the exact same way every Knicks postseason has ended the past few years? Then, it’s time for their semi-annual politics talk. And finally, they dig deep into the voicemail inbox to answer your questions!
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
- The opposite of Rumspringa
- Steely Dan internet
- The Achilles’ fairy
- DJ Dominic Squiggliucci
- Mussolini the pastry
- Impossible vertical sandwiches
- Sandwich bag wallets
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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 distraction. I'm Drew. That's raw. They do, Roth. I'm good, man. How are you? |
| 0:08.5 | I got, I got fillings put in about an hour and a half ago. So I still have the, you know, you get that sort of, that Bell's palsy effect where like, you know, half your, and you know, they always give you like, I was like, well, tell us if you need a little bit more Novacane. And every time, like, if I feel like an atom, like quiver, like when they're doing... I'm like, you know what, go why don't you stick a needle in there a little more? Yeah, it doesn't hurt. Couldn't do anything bad to you, I don't think. How long does that sort of thing take? I'm not even going to talk about how long it's been since I've been to the dentist, but it is appalling. I just don't go. Go the fucking, what are you British? Go the fucking dentist, you asshole. I'm brushing floss. I'm doing great. That's not how this works. I brush and floss. I still have cavities, you ding that. |
| 0:55.1 | I don't drink soda pop. |
| 0:56.3 | I completely reoriented my life around never going to the dentist. By the way, quick note. Everybody in my life says what you say. I should go to the dentist. I just don't want to. Well, now I'm saying it to go to the dentist. Anyway, it takes like half an hour, hour, and they, you know, it's nice because I go to a dentist where they got two TVs. They got one in front of you, and then they got one on the ceiling for when they kick you back, right? And they start. So you got something to look at, something to distract you. So in this case, the wall one was showing some really cool scenery porn, like drone footage of like Lisbon and stuff like that. Like I love that shit. But then they kicked me back and it was, it was a home rental show, like one of the million home rental porn that you see. But like, you know, one of those ones where it's like, it's the single A ball to like chippin' Joanna, you know, it's like, it's just some other couple that, you know, that renovates houses and they're not, they're not nearly as charming as they think they are. |
| 1:50.3 | And, you know, it's always like they're renovating a modest house. And then it always ends up being a little more expensive. But then the couple is always like, we love the new sailing fan. |
| 1:59.8 | We're so happy with how gray everything is. They are, like, every time, like, the designer's like, you know what? I'm going to paint this black. They're always like, I love it. And you're like, maybe there should be some pushback here. Maybe you should. So how, I've never really seen one of those shows all the way through. Do they just basically make everything into an Airbnb? Is that the general remit? You know what? Yeah, that's kind of the aesthetic. I mean, it's always like, like the end product is always better than the original, right? It's like they're taking a modest home and they're making it look and feel a little bit more expenses that it once was. And that's perfect. And it's not that sort of New York Times thing where it's like, well, they only had a $400,000 budget. And they were looking for a two-story apartment on Park Avenue South. Like it wasn't that sort of thing, right? Yeah. But it was, you know, they stayed within budget. But at the end, it's just, you know, it's a fucking house. |
| 2:51.0 | Who gives you shit? Did you get to pick, or was it just kind of like whatever's on is what you're going to get? I asked them if they could switch to the scenery porn, but they couldn't quite, it's like when you ask a bartender to change the game. And all of a sudden, the bartender's like, I don't know how these crazy things work, you know. And I just want him to... |
| 3:09.0 | I was like, you don't have to waste your time. |
| 3:11.3 | Just... I don't know how these crazy things work. Yeah. And I just want them to, I was like, you don't have to waste your time. |
| 3:11.3 | Just, you know, shoot me up and tell me not to eat my cheek after I've, you know, |
| 3:16.2 | after I'm done with the procedure and all that stuff and we can go on with about our lives. |
| 3:20.4 | I'm trying to think of what I would actually want to watch while somebody was fucking up my teeth. |
| 3:27.3 | You want to watch like sunset Earth or, you know, just say it. |
| 3:31.1 | The scenery stuff would be chill. |
| 3:32.6 | I think I could watch a lot of episodes of diners, drive-ins, and dives if I was in the right headspace. |
| 3:38.3 | Although it would feel kind of weird, not like I'd be, you know, like salivating, thinking about those out-of-bounds tacos that guys enjoy or whatever. It's a good idea, like, because it's always a good show and it's reliable, right? Like all these, all these mid-tier sort of lifestyle reality shows, they're all the same, but they're all equally inoffensive. |
| 3:57.9 | It's not like you're watching Love Overboard or something. |
| 3:59.7 | Yeah. |
| 4:00.3 | Yeah. |
| 4:00.5 | Where it's like, ah, you, if you want to fuck them, you got to slit their throat first. You know, like that kind of. Ah, geez. Yeah. Like, they don't, they don't, it's not that. So it was like, and I have met guy if he had, he was a perfectly nice guy. |
| 4:13.4 | So if they had that. |
| 4:15.0 | You did you profile guy? You did, right? |
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