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The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

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The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Sports, Society & Culture

4.42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Drew and Roth are on their own, so they’re ready to give you the Super Bowl analysis that you can’t get anywhere else! Also Roth is released from his Persephone-And-Hades-style bargain with football coverage, so he can finally talk about NBA trades and how we never need to think about Kyrie again. And as always, Guy of the Week and the Funbag!

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Credits

- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth

- Producer: Eric Silver

- Editor: Brandon Grugle

- Production Services & Ads: Multitude

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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. This is distraction. I drew that's raw. Are you doing raw? I'm good, man. What's happening?

0:07.2

Just so people know take you inside the games Ross. Yeah, I

0:13.2

Behind the game. But before we start the before we start the show we have to count down from three

0:18.3

You know to start the show to do a slate. So we got three two one and

0:22.0

Roth is slow. I'm here to tell you Roth you are slow and you're like you think you do the irony like three

0:28.9

two and I'm like well, let's go. What's going? We got work to do Roth

0:34.0

That's not the mentality that I bring to this. I'm just focused if it sounds slow to you

0:38.0

Then maybe it's because you've never heard that level of emotional intensity before. That's true

0:42.5

It could be um, you could be doing sort of an already version of the countdown and I should respect yeah your abstraction

0:49.0

Yeah, it's like an Adam driver performance for that any of the stuff that makes an Adam driver performance interesting or appealing

0:55.4

You know, I'm driving was in a super bowl ad and like I had the ads on mute because who gives a fuck about the ads anymore

1:01.1

But I did like look up. I saw I am driver and I was like, oh Adam driver

1:05.0

Maybe this will be interesting. Maybe I should unmute it and then I didn't and that's my incredible story, bro

1:10.9

Yeah, I think uh, I managed to not really notice the super bowl ads this year which was great

1:16.1

There was a part of me that was like definitely on the edge of my seat hoping for

1:20.2

I think that Facebook ad from last year where they were like

1:23.5

Web three is where you go when your body dies

1:26.5

Be nice for your body to die like that to me is like

1:31.2

One of the most challenging and unpleasant bits of like not explicitly directed by David Kronenberg

1:37.0

Art that we've seen in the last I don't know 15 years

1:39.9

But this year it was back to just being like Samuel L. Jackson eating a Dorito and going wow

1:45.3

Yeah, yeah, yeah, more but I'm expecting yeah, if they're all they're all optional now especially I don't work in that business anymore

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